The Gardeners' World Blog

Having explained last week why we nearly always transmit Match of the Day live, I thought I'd deal with another subject raised in a number of responses, and even in the letters column of this month's "When Saturday Comes".

It concerns the people who are on the air for 80% or so of most football programmes: our old mates, the commentators.

An urban myth seems to have spread that we don't always send our commentators to the matches for MOTD and MOTD2.

I can exclusively reveal that we definitely do - every single Saturday and Sunday since we regained the contract, we have had a commentator at every game.

So too, I believe, have Sky. If you find yourself at a weekend Premiership game, have a look up at the gantry and you should see at least two worried-looking individuals in headphones up there, clutching a set of notes and talking ten to the dozen for ninety minutes.

And, with any luck, not just to themselves...