Originally Posted by The Difference:
“Ray Stubbs has announced most of the details on-air, but one bit of information still to be confirmed about today's coverage is when Adrian Durham will be taking up the presenting baton from Stubbsy. I'd expect the switch to come at about 7.30pm as was the case yesterday.”
Durham did indeed take over from Stubbs as the host of World Cup Live at 7.30pm yesterday. On addition to talkSPORT's coverage details from yesterday, Ian Abrahams was at the Maracana to report from the Argentina v Bosnia and Herzegovina match - he was used in a pitchside reporting capacity, but he was in the mixed zone to conduct post-match interviews with English speaking players such as Asmir Begovic. It wouldn't surprise me if this becomes a regular thing for the matches played at the Maracana.
Originally Posted by Homesdale:
“UPDATE EDIT: just found out that Gary Taphouse not out in Brazil. Only Andrew McKenna & Jim Proudfoot there!!”
Did you find out from my message saying just that a few posts above yours?

Personally, it wouldn't surprise me if Gary Taphouse, Alvin Martin and/or Ray Parlour flew out to Brazil ahead of the knockout phases, perhaps taking the places in talkSPORT's Rio accommodation of daytime presenters Alan Brazil, Darren Gough, Paul Hawksbee and Andy Jacobs when they return home. They're going to need to send at least one other co-commentator out, given how Stuart Pearce will be flying home early to take up his Nottingham Forest duties - they'll need someone to co-commentate with Andrew McKenna during the second round, quarter-finals and semi-finals.
It's not a massive surprise that talkSPORT only have two on-site commentary teams though. While they sent three commentary pairings (Jim Proudfoot and Alvin Martin, Chris Cooper and Gary Stevens, Nigel Pearson and Rodney Marsh) to the last World Cup held in Europe, Germany 2006, they have only had two on-site teams at the three major sporting tournaments they have covered since then - World Cup 2010 in South Africa (Jim Proudfoot and Stan Collymore plus Ian Danter with Alvin Martin or Ray Parlour), the 2011 Rugby World Cup (commentators John Taylor and Andrew McKenna with co-commentators lead by Brian Moore and David Campese) and Euro 2012 (Sam Matterface and Stan Collymore in Ukraine and John Roder and Andy Gray in Poland). Despite this being the case, they did on-site commentaries on almost every knockout stage game from those three tournaments. Hopefully that will be the case in Brazil this summer.