The Gardeners' World Blog

Richard Irvine-Brown - BBC Sport Interactive

A crunch weekend of Euro qualifiers means a bulging inbox of questions.

Many of you (Scottish, English, and others) were disappointed that Scotland v Italy was not on BBC television. The answer to that is that international football is sold in packages and often years in advance. With the Euro qualifiers the broadcasting rights were split (with Sky) so that the BBC had the Scotland away fixtures, and England home fixtures. Obviously it would have been nice to have screened the drama from Hampden on the BBC, but we were not able to decide to do the game just because it turned out to have so much riding on it, and it was not a straight choice between the Scotland match or the England one.