I’m only guessing here, but I think this may be a sideways reference to the news coming out of FIFA this past week.

There have been so many bewildering shifts in that particular story that one is never certain of how matters stand at any given moment. But I think – before moving on – I can hazard the following summary:

The chatter of a ratter has done for FIFA’s Blatter. But whether good will follow - well that’s another matter.

Hope that’s clear. If not, don’t worry. It will all change again tomorrow when the FBI leak another newsline.

Anyway, the sentiment Cross expressed was fully understandable. And Murray was indeed providing the Roland Garros with a classic exhibition of his Scottish arts and crafts, reaching match point against David Ferrer, missing it, then losing the third set, then taking a 3-0 lead in the fourth with an extraordinary sequence of unlikely fetches and pulverising backhand passing shots.

Later in the evening the BBC News – very unusually - headlined on sport for almost quarter of an hour. But it was not Murray’s progress to the semi-finals of the French Open which proved the main focus. That lay on the latest admissions of the FIFA ratter, Chuck Blazer, that he “and others” on FIFA Executive Committee in 2004 accepted bribes over who would host the 2010 World Cup finals. Others? Well there was a Sepp Blatter as President on that Executive Committee. Whether that is particularly relevant remains to be seen, of course.

Even more attention, however, was given to a BBC coup – "Catch Me If You Can", the Panorama documentary by Mark  Daly, made partly in collaboration with the highly respected former Sports Illustrated writer David Epstein, now working for the ProPublica site, on the subject of Alberto Salazar, coach to Britain’s very own double world and Olympic champion Mo Farah and his chirpy US training partner Galen Rupp, who took silver behind Farah in the 10,000 metres at the London 2012 Games on what subsequently became known - in Britain at any rate - as "Super Saturday".

The topic in question was very un-super – namely doping. A number of former athletes or others employed at Salazar’s training base in Portland, known as the Nike Oregon Project, have alleged a variety of activities verging from sharp practice into illegality with regard to attempting to find an “edge” for certain athletes - although there are no allegations involving Farah, who joined the Salazar group in 2011.

Steve Magness, who was Salazar's number two at the Oregon Project in 2011, alleges he saw data indicating that Rupp was taking prednisone - an anti-ashtma drug - and “testosterone medication” in 2002, while he was in high school.

Salazar says the notation was incorrect and actually referred to a nutritional supplement called Testoboost that Rupp was taking "in an effort to counterbalance the negative effects of prednisone." Testoboost, he says, is a "legal supplement" that Rupp has disclosed to USADA whenever applicable.

But Magness, who left the Project, disenchanted, in 2012, also alleges Salazar’s son Alex was used to test testosterone gel to see what quantities showed up in lab tests - something Salazar said was to determine how much would be needed to trigger a positive test if an rival attempted to sabotage one of his runners.

Magness was also left in the dark about the nature of a couple of pills taped into a hollowed out section of a paperback thriller that were sent from Salazar to Rupp after the athlete had complained of being unwell before a race in Germany.

In 2008, John Stiner - a massage therapist working on the Oregon Project - says he was asked to clean up the bedroom room Salazar and Rupp had used at the group’s high altitude camp in Utah and to post him back a tube of Androgel - a testosterone medication - that had been left under some clothes.

According to Stiner, Salazar - who had had a serious heart attack the previous year - told him: “It’s for my heart – it’s all fucked up.” But Stiner said internet research later showed such a medication was contra-indicated for people with a heart condition.

Kara Goucher, the 2007 world 10,000 bronze medallist, was at the Oregon Project from 2004 until 2011. She alleged that Salazar – three times winner of the New York City Marathon in the 1980s – had encouraged her to take a synthetic thyroid hormone, Cytomel, to help her lose weight after giving birth in 2010, even though she did not have a prescription for it and it was later described as being potentially harmful to her by an endocrinologist.

Salazar, Rupp and indeed Farah, even though none of the former Oregon Project athletes or employees implicated him in any wrongdoing, all denied any improper activity.

In an email responding to written questions from the BBC and ProPublica, Salazar stressed that he "strictly followed" World Anti-Doping Agency rules and sought guidance from United States Anti-Doping Agency if he had questions. He said he has never endorsed the use of any performance enhancing drug and had "never coached an athlete to manipulate testing procedures or undermine the rules that govern our sport."

"No athlete within the Oregon Project uses a medication against the spirit of the sport we love," Salazar added.

The documentary also featured a personal investigation by Daly of the efficacy of the biological passport which is now forming one of the key parts of anti-doping in sport by monitoring changes in individual athlete’s blood over a period of time.

Daly, an amateur triathlete, ordered synthetic erythropoietin (EPO) – a substance which boosts red blood cells and is deemed illegal in sporting circles – from China via the internet, and the used small doses - “micro-dosing” - under the direction of a  doctor.  Over seven weeks Daly became able to use seven per cent more oxygen – and he didn’t fail the biological passport testing.

The programme led off with new evidence from a doctor alleging that Allan Wells was taking anabolic steroids when he won the Olympic 100m title in 1980. These allegations were strongly denied by a lawyer representing Wells.

It will no doubt be wonderful to turn over to Murray again when he steps out for his French Open semi-final.  But a whole new set of doubts and uncertainties about another area of sport will doubtless be seething away in the minds of many sporting followers.

The reaction by a number of past and present British athletes on Twitter to the Panorama programme spanned shock, dismay and defiance.

“Angry and tearful watching Panorama doping documentary” tweeted Jenny Meadows, who was promoted to 2011 European Indoor 800m champion from silver after the original Russian winner was banned for doping. “Questioning my motivation to carry on in sport.”

World marathon record holder Paula Radcliffe, a long-time and vocal opponent of doping in general and EPO doping in particular, tweeted: “Very disturbing allegations tonight. Worrying that blood passport increasingly relied upon by our sport apparently still has a long way to go.” 

And she added: “Lots of issues needing further investigation thrown up. #cleansport #WADA”

Olympic champion Greg Rutherford registered shock rather than dismay: “What the bloody hell…#BBCPanorama.”

What the bloody hell indeed.