it s actually rather better if they don t intermingle too much, though i think it s also appropriate, you can t start the tournament in qatar without at least some reference to the controversies that have gone on. but as someone who s worked for bbc news and bbc sport, you surely haven t. .. can you think of an example where it s gone about things like this at the beginning of a major international sporting event? i can t. well, i can a bit, actually. i think in beijing in 2008 for the summer olympics, we made a deliberate decision to put huw edwards onto the commentary and the presentation of the opening ceremony with carrie gracie, who was then a beijing correspondent as one of the expert commentators, precisely because china was controversial and difficult, probably not at that time quite as controversial as it has become. i think sometimes you do make a decision, and that was why, a bit like you being in the qatar opening ceremony, we use the news correspondents to give the proper