Just a slight correction to the talkSPORT details I posted yesterday - with the Brazil v Chile game going to extra-time and penalties, Mark Saggers took the reigns from Adrian Durham at 8pm rather than the previously advertised time.

I managed to spot a very brief shot of Jim Proudfoot and Stan Collymore at one of the World Cup stadiums in ITV's montage about the media reaction to Luis Suarez's biting incident and subsequent suspension in the build-up to their coverage of Colombia v Uruguay last night.

On the subject of Jim Proudfoot, it was said prior to the World Cup that he'd be commentating on 16 games from the tournament for talkSPORT. Having totted up the numbers so far, he and Stan commentated on eight games during the group stage and they'll do two matches from the second round (Colombia v Uruguay yesterday and Argentina v Switzerland on Tuesday). Therefore as we know Gary Taphouse will be doing the third place play-off, I make it that he'll commentate on two quarter-finals, both semi-finals and the final. That adds up to 15 games in total, I suspect the reason why he's doing one less than previously stated is that there may have been plans for him to be in Recife for tonight's fixture that is now Costa Rica v Greece - which Taphouse is doing instead - had England won Group D. That may also help to explain Taphouse's pre-tournament tweet that he'd be doing "around 15" matches.

Sunday 29th June - talkSPORT

World Cup Live presented by Adrian Durham (2-7pm) and Mark Saggers (7pm-midnight) from Rio de Janeiro

FIFA World Cup Second Round
Netherlands v Mexico - Alan Parry and Micky Quinn (5pm commentary)
Costa Rica v Greece - Gary Taphouse and Matt Holland (9pm commentary)

Adrian has been chairing an excellent discussion programme from Rio with Gabriele Marcotti (joining him between 2-4pm) and Tim Vickery (2-3.30pm). Ian Abrahams has been doing his usual fans vox pops on Copacabana beach.

In his latest daily World Cup diary article on talkSPORT.com, Adrian has mentioned that he'll be returning home after the quarter-finals, with him due to be in attendance at (and likely hosting coverage from) Argentina v Switzerland in Sao Paulo on Tuesday and the Friday afternoon quarter-final at the Maracana.

I'd like to add my comment to those saying how good Alan Green and John Murray were during the penalties last night, absolutely top draw stuff.

Jason Roberts has done his last co-commentary of the world cup with last night’s Costa Rica v Greece game. After having to sit through that, he’s probably quite relieved to be bording a flight out!

Hardly Switzerland v Ukraine 2006 or Iran v Nigeria. I found it a really intriguing game.

Darren Fletcher has tweeted that France v Nigeria today is his last match of the tournament.

Over the weekend Mark Pougatch presented Brazil v Chile, Colombia v Uruguay and Costa Rica v Greece. He was joined by Danny Mills for the late matches. Jonathan Overend hosted Holland v Mexico.

thank god for that, lets hope he doesn't pop up in the studio during live coverage

Monday 30th June - talkSPORT

World Cup Live presented by Adrian Durham (4-7pm) and Mark Saggers (7-11pm) from Rio de Janeiro

FIFA World Cup Second Round
France v Nigeria - Alan Parry and Micky Quinn (5pm commentary)
Germany v Algeria - Gary Taphouse and Alvin Martin (9pm commentary)

Tennis: Wimbledon 2014
All-England Club - Kate Partridge

Ian Abrahams has been reporting from the Netherlands' open training session at their Ipanema base in Rio.

With Andy Murray's latest match at Wimbledon just getting under way, it'll be interesting to see if Radio 5 Live have to shift their commentary on France v Nigeria onto Radio 5 Live Sports Extra in the event of an overlap between the two. I expect this will happen should Murray's match last for more than an hour, I remember a Murray match taking priority over the Brazil v Netherlands quarter-final of the 2010 World Cup.

Andrew McKenna has tweeted that he and Ray Parlour will be commentating on Friday's quarter-final from the Maracana between the winners of today's two ties. Given what we know about other commentary assignments, I imagine this will be his last commentary game from the World Cup before he, Adrian Durham and their respective producers Jon Norman and George Cummins fly home. However the talkSPORT.com schedule suggests that Ray Parlour will be staying on in Brazil with Mark Saggers, Jim Proudfoot and Stan Collymore beyond the quarter-finals.

Murray is on Sports Extra

I think this is the first World Cup since 5 Live Sports Extra launched that has not been on the station.

Anybody been listening to 5 Live the last few minutes, they played some commentary from the Germany v Algeria match from 1982, was it Alan Parry?

Mark Pougatch presenting tonight.

I'm 99% certain it was Parry. Would have been good if TS had put him on the Germany game, could have generated some PR out of it

Slight correction on the timings - Adrian stayed in the hotseat for an hour after the early game until 8pm, with extra-time in the later game meaning that Mark hosted between 8pm-midnight.

Really enjoyed Gary Taphouse and Alvin Martin's commentary on Germany v Algeria tonight, they did justice to a very exciting contest and it was especially good to hear Alv - he's one of the most insightful analysts out there, he reads the game ever so well. Even though I was able to watch the game, I listened chiefly because Alvin Martin is the only member of the talkSPORT World Cup commentary team (commentator or co-commentator) I'd yet to hear doing a full commentary from this tournament, so thought I would take my first and possibly last chance to catch him in action. As it turns out, it was mentioned that Alvin will be joining Gary for tomorrow's Belgium v USA game (rather than the previously listed Matt Holland) - a match I was always going to be listening to on talkSPORT!

I'm slightly surprised that Radio 5 Live opted to put Andy Murray's fourth round match at Wimbledon onto Sports Extra rather than France v Nigeria. I think it's one of those scheduling calls where there's no right or wrong answer, it would be harsh to criticise them whatever they decided to do. On the one hand as a football fan with no real interest in tennis I know I'd much rather have listened to the World Cup match, however I can see the opposite view and the argument that Radio 5 Live maybe would have been expected to prioritise a home-based Wimbledon contender in Murray, especially as an alternative commentary was available for those wanting to listen to France v Nigeria on analogue radio. It's possible that a Murray semi-final (touch wood he makes it through) may clash with the 5pm World Cup quarter-final on Friday, in which case given the stage of the competition and the likelihood that he'll be facing a fellow serious title contender, I expect 5 Live would feel obliged to prioritise the tennis should they face such a decision.

I see in the 5 Live new schedule announced today, John Murray will replace Mike Ingham as Chief Football Correspondent and Jonathan Overend will host the Sunday afternoon sports programme.

Gary Taphouse has tweeted that Belgium v USA is his penultimate World Cup commentary. A few weeks ago, he tweeted that he had seven commentaries remaining - he's done five matches since then and I think I got my dates wrong when I originally linked to that post on here, as he actually posted that after covering Korea Republic v Algeria rather than before it as I thought at the time!

Therefore as Taphouse stated ages ago that his final World Cup commentary will be on the third place play-off, hopefully this means that talkSPORT will be covering all four quarter-finals on-site, with Andrew McKenna and Ray Parlour commentating on games on Friday and Saturday as Jim Proudfoot and Stan Collymore will be doing. Of course, Alan Parry might get a quarter-final - although yesterday's match was his tenth commentary of the tournament for talkSPORT, which is the sort of round number of game you could imagine a commentator of his standing signed especially for the World Cup agreeing to do.

Micky Quinn has also tweeted that yesterday's game was the last of his six World Cup co-commentaries - with Alvin Martin joining Taphouse tonight, I imagine either he or Matt Holland will be with Gary for the third place play-off.

Almost certainly it was Parry - he commentated on it for BBC TV and when they replayed the Spain vs Northern Ireland match from that tournament on the red button recently, the build-up included Parry's post-match report. BBC Radio wouldn't have been covering the game, they only did the home nations and the big knockout games in those days.

Tuesday 1st July - talkSPORT

World Cup Live presented by Adrian Durham from Arena de Sao Paulo (4-7/8pm) and Mark Saggers from Rio de Janeiro (7/8-11pm)

FIFA World Cup Second Round
Argentina v Switzerland - Jim Proudfoot and Stan Collymore (5pm commentary), with Mike Bovill and George Cummins producing
Belgium v USA - Gary Taphouse and Alvin Martin (9pm commentary)

Tennis: Wimbledon 2014
All-England Club - Kate Partridge

Ian Abrahams continues to conduct fans vox pops and the like from Rio (I wonder if he's out there for the duration of the tournament?), while back home reporter, producer and former non-league footballer Warren Haughton joined the Southend United squad for the first day of their pre-season.

Why is the sound quality on TS so poor compared to 5 Live?

It depends which game you are referring to. Given the timing of your post I'm guessing you are referring to tonight's Belgium v USA game, in which case talkSPORT's commentators were studio based while I presume Radio 5 Live were at the ground. So the sound you heard on talkSPORT was the international feed's television effects mic, meaning you clearly hear things like comments made by players, coaches and referees when they are close to the effects mic. You don't get that when the sound feed is being picked up off a commentators mic at the stadium.

I wouldn't say the sound quality is poor though, just different. You can hear the ball being kicked clearly but perhaps the crowd is slightly quieter. Even when both stations are on-site for the same game, the sound feed you hear tends to be a bit different - I find the crowd noise generally sounds a bit louder on commercial stations to BBC ones, I think commercial stations turn up their effects mics slightly louder to emphasise the noise in the stadium.

For the second night running Gary Taphouse and Alvin Martin produced an excellent commentary, fitting for a really exciting game in Belgium v USA. By the end of the game you could tell how much Alvin was enjoying the end-to-end nature of it! Fair to say Gary has earned his money, all three of his Second Round games went to extra time!

With his background being in places I rarely have access to (local radio in London, Sky Sports and the Premier League's international feed), I was unfamiliar with Taphouse before he made his talkSPORT debut on their FA Cup coverage a few months ago, but he's impressed me throughout the World Cup and I can now see why quite a few posters on the TV-based commentary threads on Digital Spy rate him very highly. He's gelled well with the four different co-commentators he's worked with, from more analytical ones like Alvin to the more chatty style of Micky Quinn. I hope talkSPORT call upon him again if and when he is available in the upcoming club football season.

I have to say that I've generally been very impressed with all of the commentators talkSPORT have used during this tournament. I had high hopes for the returning Jim Proudfoot and Alan Parry and they haven't disappointed, with them both conveying the tension of games well and delivering some dramatic goal calls. Andrew McKenna has also been on form, having developed good tandems with first Stuart Pearce and now Ray Parlour, both of whom he's got the best out of. I've mentioned Taphouse above, Nigel Pearson has always been a favourite of mine and I enjoyed Richard Connelly's cameo appearance, but the commentator I was most pleasantly surprised by was John Anderson. Previously, I'd never particularly rated his talkSPORT work (be it as their England reporter at the last two big tournaments or as a commentator during the 2011 Rugby World Cup or on the talkSPORT Live international feed), but having heard him a few times during the group stage he was really well researched, built up a strong rapport with various co-commentators and did justice to games such as the USA's exciting win over Ghana and Colombia taking apart Japan. I know Swansea Steve said on here that he didn't exactly have high hopes for Anderson prior to the tournament, so I'd be interested to know if he (like me) has had his mind changed by him.

Funnily enough, I was going to come on and post about Gary Taphouse and Alvin Martin's commentary last night which I thought was absolutely fantastic. Taphouse is a terrific commentator, and Alvin Martin's inthusiasm really shone through for what was a great game. before last night, the most enjoyable commentary I'd heard (not necessarily the best game but just how much fun the 2 commentators were) was Ali Bruce-Ball and Jason Roberts on USA v Ghana, but last night's Taphouse and Martin pairing probably topped that. I've been aware of Taphouse for some time, I first heard him 10 years or so ago on Smooth Radio's short-lived Chelsea commentaries (did that even last a whole season?) and I'm aware his been on Sky and World Feed commentaries more recently. I rated him at Smooth, and rate him even more now.

As for John Anderson, I only really heard 1 of his commentaries the whole way through (Chili v Australia) but thought it was pretty good and, like you, better than I was expecting. I actually rated his work as a reporter with the England team in the last world cup and Euro 2012, it was just his commentary I wasn't convinced by.

Glad you have enjoyed Gary Taphouse. To be honest i havent heard much of his talkSPORT stuff as been watching all the games on TV, but im a big fan of his TV work.

He has a superb voice and comes across usually as if it really loves what he is doing and enjoying the game, which is how i think it should be.

As for Alvin Martin, i think he is superb. How he hasnt got any TV work, is quite remarkable to be honest.

I know he did bit and pieces for Setanta when they first started, but surprised the like of Sky or ITV have never snapped him up.

Glad to hear you enjoyed last night's commentary Steve and it's good to see both Gary and Alvin getting some well-deserved praise on here from you and Homesdale.

Just to clear up a couple of the things you raised, from searching the archives on Digital Spy I think Smooth Radio had rights to Chelsea games (with Taphouse commentating on them) for two seasons of a three-year deal between 2005/06 to 07/08, with Chelsea rights during that last season transferring to sister station Real Radio.

As for Alvin Martin's television co-commentary work, rather than with Setanta he was actually one of Sky Sports' regular co-commentators on their Football League coverage, from around the time the rights returned to them from ITV Digital (2002/03) until some point in the mid 2000s when Don Goodman and Garry Birtles became regulars. Like you Homesdale, it's a real mystery to me why Alvin has never been given more television opportunities since then - he's one of the best co-commentators I have heard on either medium, he's really enthusiastic yet knowledgeable, able to read the game well and explain things with clarity. It's always a pleasure to hear him, I'd like talkSPORT to make a bit more use of him.

Looking ahead to the quarter-finals, I see Jon Norman has tweeted about travelling to Brasilia for the Argentina v Belgium game on Saturday. I've not seen confirmation from the commentators yet, but that would suggest that he will be producing Andrew McKenna and Ray Parlour's commentary on that game as well as France v Germany on Friday, with Jim Proudfoot and Stan Collymore covering Brazil v Colombia on Friday and Netherlands v Costa Rica on Saturday.

I like Gary Taphouse, in fact, in the TV world when he and Gary Weaver were neck and neck a few years a go i'd say I prefer Taphouse over Weaver but Sky went in the other direction.

From what I have heard of bits and bobs of the radio commentary i've found Talksports offtube commentary soundmix to be pretty awful other than being 'different'. Crowd really tinny and not blended at all well. Thats not taking away anything from bits of commentary i've heard which has been mostly good.

From the schedule page on the 5 Live website

France v Germany - Conor McNamara, Pat Nevin & Mike Ingham
Brazil v Colombia - Ian Dennis, Danny Mills & Alan Green
Argentina v Belgium - John Murray & Robbie Savage
Holland v Costa Rica - Alistair Bruce-Ball & Kevin Kilbane