The Gardeners' World Blog

One of the strongest themes in this blog and across the web is the power of money in sport these days - and in football in particular. This autumn the Premier League will start a new three-year rights deal that is worth billions overall, and tens of millions to each club. Meanwhile, some individual footballers have found unwelcome headlines by talking about “slap in the face” pay offers that were worth multiples each week of the annual national average wage. The gap between the sporting elite and the rest of the world is sometimes a real one.

But there's another side to the story. A few days ago in an unfashionable part of West London, the BBC and its partners - including the Football Foundation, the Premier League and Barclays - launched “Your Game 2007”: a bigger and better version of the project we ran last year.