The Gardeners' World Blog

After the first-round draw for this year's FA Cup I had a call from an old friend up north.

He's the groundsman at a non-League club and they'd just secured a juicy home tie - so were we planning to cover it? It's obviously a question people ask after every draw.

For lower-league clubs the TV picks can make a massive financial difference to them (and, for the record, we didn't cover my mate's club) - while for the giants it's about fitting kick-off times into high profile slots in the schedules which will get them some of the biggest viewing figures of the season.

For us, it's a vigorous internal debate about what's the right choice for our audiences...

At Football Focus one of the things we’ve been discussing this week is what the future holds for David Beckham.

People seem to have such a wide range of views on England’s ex-captain, but love him or hate him … please answer me this...

Would he be an asset for your club? Would he get in the team? Would he help results? Remember, he’s still only 31.

So I’ve moved up in the world - literally - from the Newsroom on the first floor of Television Centre in west London to the Sport department on the fifth floor, to set up a new sports news programme for BBC One to be launched in the coming months.

I’ve done launches before on News 24 and on BBC Four and they all start the same way... it’s just a desk, a phone and a PC.

Before Christmas I appealed for ideas from you and I’d like to renew that appeal now – what would you like to see on the new programme? Which sports? What subjects?

What about the tone of the programme – it will probably be a late night 1030/11pm sort of start time – what would make you watch? And if you’re not a sports fanatic, what might make you turn on? Oh - and any ideas for a name???