Step across the flagstoned hall into the blue drawing room and you enter a museum of curiosities: the baby grand piano is freighted with family photos, the walls book-lined and every surface is busy with ­ornaments, acquired over four decades, reflecting Jilly's love for all creatures great and small. Hard to imagine, but in the interests of research, Jilly, 86, has become a late life football aficionado, immersing herself in the arcane language of assists, penalties, disputed calls and corners.