BBC or ITV?

[Panda]

Jul 12, 2010 7:13:45 GMT 1 vastar iner said:

ITV managed to miss 33% of England's goals, so it will always be the Beeb.

In terms of England goals scored in games ITV were showing live it was 100%!

[Panda]

Jul 12, 2010 0:02:36 GMT 1 Paddy said:

Chris always struck me as a watcher of volleyball more then football.

Gymnastics is probably more up Chris's street.

[Tom]

Doesn't look like I can vote as I watched it on both! ITV for the 1st half incl HT and then BBC until the end of the game, then switching it back on to ITV after the game ahead of James Corden's World Cup Live.

[Maximo Mark]

BBC! Always been the best, always will be. ITV was awful. Awful commentators, awful summarisers, awful pundits, and even a disappointingly awful presenter. Adrian Chiles is so much better suited to the more laid-back atmosphere of MOTD2! The only decent thing about ITV was Marcel Dessailly. Edgar Davids made Emannuael Adebayor's appearences look inspired.

There's only one person who annoys me on the BBC, and that's Mark Bright!

[suedehead]

Early figures give the BBC a peak of 17.9m viewers and ITV 3.8m. That's an even more overwhelming victory for the BBC than the last WC Final. Please ITV, just give up now.

[suedehead]

Jul 12, 2010 7:55:02 GMT 1 Shireblogger said:

The BBC pundits are so much better. Now Motty has retired, there isn't much to choose between the commentators.

ITV had just two decent cards this year. Adrian Chiles was far better than I expected, and gave Gary Lineker a run for his money. And Marcel Desailly is great.

The BBC's discovery of the tournament was Clarence Seedorf. I hope he'll be back for the Euro Championships and future World Cups. Shearer goes from strength-to-strength, and I'm warming to Lee Dixon.

Shearer has been much better since he gave up on the idea of becoming a manager. In the past he has always given the impression his job with the BBC was just a way of filling in time before he got the Newcastle job for life. Now he seems to have settled on broadcasting as a full-time career and has finally started to become worth listening to.

The worst BBC person is still Mark Lawrenson. He's simply not anywhere near as funny as he thinks he is and rarely says anything informative or enlightening.

[Paddy]

Jul 12, 2010 12:57:50 GMT 1 Panda said:

Jul 12, 2010 0:02:36 GMT 1 Paddy said:

Chris always struck me as a watcher of volleyball more then football.

Gymnastics is probably more up Chris's street.

I was going to say swimming, duno why i said volleyball.

[raliverpool]

The BBC all the way. I could never stand Adrian Chiles talking about football on the BBC so when he went to ITV I had to laugh and his pro-Chelsea bias (yes I know he is a Baggies fan) over the John Terry press conference was embarrassing in the extreme.

But I so wished Sky Sports Soccer Saturday panel led by Jeff Sterling were covering the World Cup, as quite frankly watching them (Phil Thompson; Matthew Le Tissier; Charlie Nicholas; Chris Kamara; etc) watching the matches would have been more entertaining than 50% of the games in this very poor quality World Cup.

.... and whoever in ITV commissioned that pile of manure of a football show hosted by James Corden deserves shooting, as it made Skinner & Baddiel's Fantasy Football shows seem like Fawlty Towers in comparison.

[Chris]

Jul 11, 2010 23:40:13 GMT 1 Panda said:

Jul 11, 2010 23:39:26 GMT 1 Chris said:

Watched it on BBC1.

You've always struck me more as an ITV man...

I do mostly watch ITV, Corrie etc, but everyone says BBC are best at big footie finals.

[Chris]

Jul 12, 2010 12:57:50 GMT 1 Panda said:

Jul 12, 2010 0:02:36 GMT 1 Paddy said:

Chris always struck me as a watcher of volleyball more then football.

Gymnastics is probably more up Chris's street.

I love watching Gymnastics.

[greendemon]

adverts vs. no adverts. simples.

[Elmer]

Adverts are a factor for me but simply the panel on ITV football is uninspiring and tedious.

[Mart!n]

NO adverts, BBC of course.

[Panda]

Jul 21, 2010 10:26:05 GMT 1 @breathewithin said:

James Corden's human wallchart is a right switch-off from ITV all along.

As if James Corden wasn't enough of a switch-off in the first place...

[Panda]

Jul 21, 2010 10:58:30 GMT 1 @breathewithin said:

Who exactly is he?, that programme was the first time I ever heard of him as well as the annoying trailer for the show (featuring Adrian Chiles) in the build-up to the world cup.

He's an actor/comedy writer/performer. Best known for being in and co-writing Gavin & Stacey.

He can be funny on occasion, like his Sport Relief sketch:



But most of the time, he's nowhere near as funny as he thinks he is.

[Elmer]

I find James Corden a vile human being. That sketch he churned out at the Sports Review Of The Year was embarrassing to say the least and ruined a classic annual event. Also he disgraced himself on stage with a legend such as Sir Patrick Stewart. Corden is not fit to tie his shoelaces.

[Panda]

Jul 21, 2010 13:36:52 GMT 1 Elmer said:

Also he disgraced himself on stage with a legend such as Sir Patrick Stewart. Corden is not fit to tie his shoelaces.

To be fair, I don't think there was any need for Patrick Stewart to have a go at him the way he did and Corden was just giving as good as he was getting.

[Paddy]

Never liked Corden. Altho he showed his true self at the england v row match that robbie williams started that he took part in this year.

[frag]

Jul 11, 2010 23:36:12 GMT 1 Paddy said:

The option is to go to one of the many York pubs, but going to the pub on you're own is a tad boring and a little sad. (and embarrassing.)

I've watched football in pubs on my own loads of times. I don't find it boring as you have the game to entertain you, and there are generally other people around to talk to. I do prefer it when my housemates can be bothered to go watch, though.