as you say, this all boils down to events in a pub injanuary in 2013, where the complainant geoffreyif he could help to double the price of sports direct shares, then mike ashley agreed to pay him £15 million. mike ashley says that is nonsense. whatever was said that night, he does not remember making a deal, it was jets night, he does not remember making a deal, it wasjets a bit of barroom banter. even if a deal of that nature had been struck, the fact that the sports direct prices did double by the next year had nothing really to do with mr bloom at all but is in fact due to the improved financial performance of the company. we have had some very entertaining, sometimes lurid scenes of management meetings held in pubs. they admit that everyone had had a view on the night in question, and we have an insight if you like into the way that sports direct is run. it is listed on the stock exchange but it is not a normal company. mike ashley owns 70% of the shares, he has an enormous moderate —— an enormous amount of influence. one of the maverick characters of british business. geoffrey

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geoffrey, if there was a highlight from johnson & johnson either a better than expected or a bit of artfall, what would you point to after going through all the details? >> you know, i would say overall i think the stock is up just because as meg said earlier, the guidance raised was more than the beat you look across the product lines, pharma was a little bit light, consumer and med tech were basically in line so i think that's pretty much it it's the guidance raised on the bottom line. good cost containment. >> so, is that how managing j&j at this point will bear fruit on the cost side of things? that's -- that's not very exciting >> yeah, it's not very exciting. but i would say investors are looking on deals to see how much that would drive pharma growth and then going forward, you know, they do have a new product cycle coming with respect to, you know, the drug just aproved for psoriasis and darzalac is doing quite well >> i guess if you wanted excitement you should go back five years or so when all the problems with qualitative issues at plants, and fines, and globally, it seemed