What an astonishing, moving, uplifting and inspiring programme Welcome To Rio (BBC Two, Tuesday, 9pm) was - so much more astonishing, moving, uplifting and inspiring than a man kicking a ball could ever be.

And yet the lives of the people of the shanty towns in Rio are being disrupted and in some cases destroyed - the chilling official term for it is pacification - because the World Cup is coming to the city in a few days' time.

And here it is again - the sight of people being pushed aside for sport - but this time in Glasgow. Commonwealth City (BBC One, Monday, 10.40pm) showed us Margaret Jaconelli's home being smashed up because it was in the way of the new athletes' village.

Exactly the same thing happened in Rio: the government won the bid to host a sporting event and so it sent in the men with crowbars and sledgehammers to break in front doors.

In Rio and in Glasgow, the same phrase was used: it's for their own safety.

The first episode of Welcome To Rio made this point about the relative status of sport and ordinary people - "lives are being turned upside down all in the name of international sport" - but then did a sensible thing which was to avoid labouring the point.

Instead, it simply introduced us to some of the people who live and work in Rio's shanty towns.

The most interesting of them was Rocky, who lives high up on one of the hills around the city.

He makes his living partly from selling scrap and partly by moving furniture and other heavy goods for his neighbours, and he does it without any machinery.

He just hoists the item on his back and climbs the stairs which led to the most extraordinary shot of the programme.

The shot started on the fridge on Rocky's back and then moved back and up and up until Rocky was a spot on a long strip of concrete. The shanty town was beautiful.

We were then taken to Rocky's scrapyard at the bottom of the stairs.

The yard is never under lock and key and nothing is ever stolen. "Everyone takes care of everyone else's business," he said.

There is crime - of course there is: serious, terrible crime - but there is also a self-imposed justice and there are rules because there always are with humans, no matter how chaotic the circumstances.

That seemed to be the ultimate message of Welcome To Rio: that rules should come from below rather than above.

Because of the World Cup, the government of Brazil has tried to impose order but it has made things worse: soldiers have died, the lives of the residents have been disrupted and, of course, the drug gangs are still there because they always will be.

But most disturbingly, it was only when the World Cup was at stake that the authorities decided to take any action in Rio to "renovate", and the same situation applies in Glasgow - it was only when the Commonwealth Games were at stake that anything was done to change parts of the East End.

In Rio one of the residents asked an important question and it's a question that should be asked in Glasgow too: what will happen afterwards?