The Gardeners' World Blog

So it's been a great year of football, and we've also recorded some excellent figures for our TV flagship programme Match Of The Day. An interesting statistic from Sunday is that the peak live audience for Wigan Athletic v Manchester United was 1.8m, whereas the MOTD high was 4.7m. And that fits into the overall story of the season with the highlights show routinely getting 2 or even 3 times the viewing figures for individual live matches.

We have a Fulham fan in the office so for the last few weeks we've been living the Great Escape, and I was out in the sunshine plugged in to the 5 Live commentaries on Sunday afternoon as we zapped from Wigan to Chelsea and then picked up the relegation battle.