Hard on the heels of my disappointment that there is no free to view screening of Australian Open Tennis matches other than the women's and men's singles finals came the news that Zambia will need to either win or come second in their Africa Cup group before I can see them play.

That's not entirely true in that I've seen two or three minutes of highlights from their drawn game against Ethiopia complete with Arabic commentary on some obscure website.  That was almost as unsatisfactory as listening to a Radio 5 commentary on an Andy Murray match in the wee small hours.