Economy measures for Beeb star Keown

The BBC may have spent an estimated £1million on their lavish Cape Town studio in the shadow of Table Mountain, but such largesse does not extend to their team of experts in South Africa.

Former Arsenal defender Martin Keown, working as a pundit for the Beeb in South Africa, was forced to slum it with the ordinary folk in economy class on a 12-hour flight from Heathrow to Cape Town.

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