It's 6pm in Germany, three hours until Bayern Munich face Liverpool in their Champions League knock-out clash and on the sidelines of an empty Allianz Arena, Rio Ferdinand is breathing a sharp sigh of relief.
He had just signed off from hosting his first Facebook Live stream for BT Sport, previewing the impending clash between Germany's league leaders and last year's Champions League runners-up.
And Ferdinand did very well. He spoke engagingly, conversation with Michael Owen and Owen Hargreaves rolled fluidly, orchestrated by his subtle prompts for when each should answer.
Rio Ferdinand hosts a BT Sport Facebook Live chat with Michael Owen and Owen Hargreaves
Ferdinand has no plans to move into presenting, saying he prefers giving opinions as a pundit
They were speaking prior to Liverpool's 3-1 win over Bayern Munich in the Champions League
While his relief is understandable, it never felt like it was going to go wrong from behind the camera.
'I enjoyed it,' Ferdinand told Sportsmail afterwards, before adding that he won't be going after Gary Lineker's job hosting BT's Champions League coverage any time soon.
'No, I think as a presenter you get robbed of sharing your opinion and I really like that.'
Thanks to technology, social media and the billions ploughed into broadcasting live football, punditry has never been better, never been harder and never been more important than at present. Ferdinand and Owen's former Manchester United and Liverpool team-mates, Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher, took the standard to new heights over at rivals Sky Sports.
'I think they are trying to create teams on each station. That's the way it seems,' Ferdinand said. 'I think it is good. With social media, there is even more scrutiny on pundits. You've got to be on your game. I like it, I'm a competitive person.'
BT's crew arrive up to two days before a match to begin preparations for a live broadcast
In the broadcast trucks, the team piece together the footage that is broadcast to fans at home
In the commentary positions, there are sheets from UEFA explaining how VAR works
But pressure doesn't just come from what other people are doing. BT paid a cool £1.2billion to exclusively show Europe's elite club competition, and the Europa League, until 2021 in the UK.
That money is spent before a crew are assembled to travel the continent getting cameras and lighting on point - they start arriving two days before the game - and before Ferdinand, Owen and Lineker (to name a few) are hired to face the coverage.
That work is imperative, particularly in the hours before kick-off. In trucks outside the Allianz Arena, they assess every feed from every camera in the stadium, running through the potential variations in the jigsaw that is broadcasting live football.
Nothing is left to chance by BT or UEFA,
