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Itv's coverage of England was hilarious and lame! |
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Itv's coverage of England was hilarious and lame!
When Adrian Chiles asked the tv pundits about England's 2014 World Cup campaign they did their best to try to come up with something to say. Lee Dixon said
"blah blah blah... so a few positives there." And that was it. England out after three games but Lee Dixon says "so a few positives." It was hilarious and sad and summed up England. Even when we lose there are positives. LOL! Oh boy.
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Andros Townsend was the best part of the ITV coverage. He's the most inexperienced at media work but knocked socks off all the others.
ITV's commentary teams were woeful. Saying that, some of the BBC second string aren't that great either - but calling them second string points out how bad ITV's first string was. |
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BBC won the pundit/presenter wars for sure.
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When Adrian Chiles asked the tv pundits about England's 2014 World Cup campaign they did their best to try to come up with something to say. Lee Dixon said
"blah blah blah... so a few positives there." And that was it. England out after three games but Lee Dixon says "so a few positives." It was hilarious and sad and summed up England. Even when we lose there are positives. LOL! Oh boy. ![]() |
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Didn`t see it as I was watching the Italy game, must have been murder for poor old Adrian to muster any sort of enthusiasm.
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Let's face it - the TV pundits matched the team's performance.
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Here's a sample of RTE in Ireland's analysis of England :
www.youtube.com/watch?v=477JPySx-Og Some very intelligent discussion and lively debate......much higher standard than the ITV panel. |
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Here's a sample of RTE in Ireland's analysis of England :
www.youtube.com/watch?v=477JPySx-Og Some very intelligent discussion and lively debate......much higher standard than the ITV panel. We need more of that on our panels - it's all too nicey nicey. |
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Here's a sample of RTE in Ireland's analysis of England :
www.youtube.com/watch?v=477JPySx-Og Some very intelligent discussion and lively debate......much higher standard than the ITV panel. |
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What really annoys me is the constant going over of the same thing. They cover some incident or piece of action then 5 minutes later repeat their analysis.
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I suspect they are more disappointed that the BBC about England going out.
The latter have Wimbledon and Mr Murray to concentrate on (hope I've not jinxed him!) |
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For the first time ever, I think, radio 5live dumped an England match with about 15 minutes to go and went over to commentary on the Uruguay-Italy game.......
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The BBC have been the worse channel to watch football during the World Cup and ITV are not much better. I hate to say it but the British pundits are the worse on both sides.
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The tension on that panel between Kenny Cunningham and Eamon Dunphy is incredible - you can tell by Kennys face that he loathes the guy!
We need more of that on our panels - it's all too nicey nicey. |
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It seems ITV/BBC have had that much coaching and 'media training' they just trot out the usual cliches and banal lines. I'd much rather see people having open discussions like they have on your link.
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The tension on that panel between Kenny Cunningham and Eamon Dunphy is incredible - you can tell by Kennys face that he loathes the guy!
We need more of that on our panels - it's all too nicey nicey.
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BBC won the pundit/presenter wars for sure.
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Here's a sample of RTE in Ireland's analysis of England :
www.youtube.com/watch?v=477JPySx-Og Some very intelligent discussion and lively debate......much higher standard than the ITV panel. |
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To be fair, there's been gaffes all over the place. The commentator tonight talking about Ecuador fighting for a chance to play against Australia and the earlier gaffe about the Iranians having their Christian names (should have said forenames/first names ) on their shirts.
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I love RTE's football debates. I've watched quite a few old ones on YouTube. Always great stuff.
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ITV is a joke channel. In the build up to the Argentina game they bang on about Messi vs Maradona (zzZz) then conspire to show the Hand of God from 1986. Just what relevance did this have to the debate or the forthcoming match? They find any link no matter how tenuous to bring England into the conversation. Their channel is aimed at complete morons and is insulting to football connoisseurs of the beautiful game.
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For the first time ever, I think, radio 5live dumped an England match with about 15 minutes to go and went over to commentary on the Uruguay-Italy game.......
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To be fair, there's been gaffes all over the place. The commentator tonight talking about Ecuador fighting for a chance to play against Australia and the earlier gaffe about the Iranians having their Christian names (should have said forenames/first names ) on their shirts.
(Spell checker put seldom instead of seldom) |
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I noticed that when they've been broadcasting the simultaneous final group games, if there's been a goal in the other game the BBC will show it in split screen mode.
ITV just mention the other score but don't show the goal. 1-0 to BBC on that matter IMO. |
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