But it was a clip of Steve, a talented pianist, and BBC North-West Tonight weather presenter Owain Wyn Evans performing the Match of the Day theme tune which attracted so much attention on social media last month.

“During the coronavirus lockdown, we have all had to find our ways to get through daily life,” Steve told me from his home in Moscow. “For me, that was through music.

“There had been a lot of musical collaborations online during lockdown, so someone on Twitter suggested that Owain and I do one together.

“He is a fantastic drummer and we thought the Match of the Day tune would be a good one to do, especially with the Premier League coming back.”

It is said that variety is the spice of life, and that is certainly true for Steve. Some correspondents can be posted to countries or regions where little happens day to day.

However, for Steve, that could not be further from the truth — previously he has reported on stories as diverse as the Buranovskiye Babushki grandmothers who represented Russia at the 2012 Eurovision Song Contest to interviewing Sergey Naryshkin, the director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Services.

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