as an investment but partly because via the media, these countries or these organisations can change their public image. are you always comfortable with that? not always, no, no. i don t know what we do about it. i think it s every club s supporter, they don t like it but then when it happens to their club, that s ultimately what they want because it might give them a greater chance of success, which is what fans want. but am i comfortable with it? no, not really. gary, we ve talked a lot about football and sport, but it s notjust sport for you at the moment. you ve got a new game show coming up on itv, it s called sitting on a fortune. just give us the elevator pitch. i don t want to build up too much because it s. you never know until it actually airs. but we recorded a few episodes, and it s going to be primetime sunday evenings i believe on itv within about a month or so, a month and a half. it s sitting on a fortune,
and i think it s brilliant and the audiences that came to watch it thought it was amazing. it s got feel good factor, people winning loads of money. it s got tension. it s gotjeopardy right from the start. i think it works. but i ve already built it up too much. was it the first time somebody called you and said would you do a saturday, sunday night entertainment show? might be. certainly the first time it s got through my agent. right. this is not something you ve been fending off? it never crossed my mind. more broadly, do you have aspirations to go outside of sport? you will know that. i didn t have aspirations for the game show, it never crossed my mind until we spoke about it. but when i watch what you talk about social media, so for example just before i came into the studio i had a look, you talked about var
that will be streamed in australia, the uk and the us, talking about politics, talking about sport and a variety of issues, that doesn t appeal? no. no, i can have my view about things that i feel are important, which i ve done. climate change for me is really, really important. i ve got four kids. i m not worried about. it s not about me going ahead. my generation will probably be all right, who knows? but i worry about my boys and worry about their children and their children s children. you know, are they going to have a planet that they can actually live on? so, important things like that. because i ve got a big platform, i can put it out there. obviously, i think about the things that i do, erm. but it s interesting you say you want to impact these issues, you say you are aware of your platform and you re using it,
it s got tension. it s gotjeopardy right from the start. i think it works. but i ve already built it up too much. was it the first time someone had called you and said would you do a saturday, sunday night entertainment show? might be. certainly the first time it s got through my agent. right. this isn t something you ve been fending off? it never crossed my mind. more broadly, do you have aspirations to go outside of sport. you will know that. i didn t have aspirations before the game show, it never crossed my mind until he spoke to me about it. but when i watch what you talk about social media, so for example just before i came into the studio i had a look, you talked about var in sport, about des lynam s birthday, then about climate change and about animals in cages, and that s not unusual for you to take on a range of subjects.
how do you view the programme not as a bit of sports broadcasting, but as an institution, notjust for the bbc, but for the country, really? i think it s actually quite remarkable. i think it bucks the trend with so many other things, in terms of sports television. highlights? highlights don t really work in. i cannot think of anything else really, not in the way that match of the day does. but i think what it does it gives the nation. and we have to remember a lot of people in this country still don t have sky or bt or whatever where football is shown. so it gives them the weekly fix. and also we are addressing a much younger audience now because of catch up, the bbc iplayer and stuff like that. so i think people love football so much in this country and it s a global sport as well, but also it s nice just to watch a few minutes of every game. it keeps you in touch