Took the opportunity to listen to Graham Beecroft and Ray Parlour on Slovakia v Paraguay today, managed to get it in time with the TV pictures. I've now listened to all five of talkSPORT's commentators doing World Cup matches. Enjoyed listening to Beeky today, very very much so indeed.
Off-topic side note: full marks to whoever at BBC TV decided it would be a good idea to provide Freeview viewers on 301 with in-running highlights of the live game rather than give us the usual alternative audio commentary option. I'm sure there are hundreds of people who really prefer watching brief clips of a match as it takes place rather than taking it in live.

This has happened at least three times now when Steve Wilson has been commentating, most annoying.
Going back to Beeky - am I right in saying this is the first major international tournament he's covered as a commentator?
It certainly is his first as a commentator on talkSPORT. Since joining the then-Talk Radio just after France 98, he missed out on Euro 2000 when Alan Parry and Jim Proudfoot were their commentators and JP did all of their commentaries from World Cup 2002.
At Euro 2004, Beeky covered non-commentary games from the group stage as a reporter before replacing an unwell Mike Parry on The Sports Breakfast during the knockout phases, and then continued as Alan Brazil's permanent breakfast co-host in London during World Cup 2006. He was then a match reporter for talkSPORT at Euro 2008, which they didn't buy commentary rights to due to the lack of a UK presence.
Anyone know if he was used as a commentator at an international tournament by BBC Radio during his time at Radio Merseyside in the 1980s, or for ILR during his spell as Radio City's sports editor in the 1990s?
If this is his first major tournament as a commentator, then I have to say it's quite amazing that it's taken about 30 years in broadcasting for Beeky to finally get the chance to commentate on a World Cup game - especially as he was twice a Sony Sports Broadcaster of the Year nominee in the 1980s.
Still, better late than never, I hope he seizes this opportunity now it has come.