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[Football] ITV coverage of the World Cup and football in general.



whitelion

New member
Dec 16, 2003
12,828
Southwick
Once the anthems are over we go to an ad break just when the atmosphere is building.

I find this extremely irritating when they just can't wait to squeeze ads in...same with half time before we get the analysis.
 


Pavilionaire

Well-known member
Jul 7, 2003
30,521
On the plus side it's one last chance before kick-off to raid the kitchen for beers and nibbles.
 


DavidRyder

Well-known member
Jul 23, 2013
2,884
Yep, agreed, get the ads in before the teams come out and at half time, then post match. At least they can't ruin F1 anymore.
 








marcos3263

Well-known member
Oct 29, 2009
919
Fishersgate and Proud
I was going to suggest a picture in picture ad to at least keep the atmosphere brewing but they would take it too far and have that throughout the game with a small view of the pitch in the top corner and numerous ads filling the screen.
 










LlcoolJ

Mama said knock you out.
Oct 14, 2009
12,982
Sheffield
ITV's football coverage has always been utter dogshit. The ads aren't the worst thing about it by far despite them being annoying. Even getting rid of Andy Townsend hasn't improved it much. Not for me Clive.
 


Easy 10

Brain dead MUG SHEEP
Jul 5, 2003
61,673
Location Location
I still can't quite get over their opening credits and all their links being based on The Greatest Showman. I mean WTF ? Bizarrely irrelevant.

Its a World Cup in Russia. Do some proper Russian shit with their plinky-plonk music or something.
 








Iggle Piggle

Well-known member
Sep 3, 2010
5,281
The commentary is about the only good thing today. Jon Champion is having trouble with his South Korean players.

''This is Lee Jay Sung, suuung, passing to Ch, Ch, Ch Cunhg, Chung. Ah Thank god for that Larsson has intercepted it. How come BBC got the England game, I can pronounce Harry Kane?

Ally McCoist even came out with some STATS earlier but he has long since run out of things to say of interest. He makes Andy Townsend seem like Steven Hawking.
 




Beanstalk

Well-known member
Apr 5, 2017
2,454
London
The commentary is about the only good thing today. Jon Champion is having trouble with his South Korean players.

''This is Lee Jay Sung, suuung, passing to Ch, Ch, Ch Cunhg, Chung. Ah Thank god for that Larsson has intercepted it. How come BBC got the England game, I can pronounce Harry Kane?

Ally McCoist even came out with some STATS earlier but he has long since run out of things to say of interest. He makes Andy Townsend seem like Steven Hawking.

Listening to Ally McCoist reminds me of the early FIFA games, when they didn't have enough space on the disks to include player names on commentary.

"The Centre-Forward with a great shot there" "I'll tell you what, the full back has been excellent today"
 










Iggle Piggle

Well-known member
Sep 3, 2010
5,281
Listening to Ally McCoist reminds me of the early FIFA games, when they didn't have enough space on the disks to include player names on commentary.

"The Centre-Forward with a great shot there" "I'll tell you what, the full back has been excellent today"

I get the feeling Ally is trying his best not to say 'This is so hard, they all look so alike'' Luckily for Ally, the Right back has a head band on to enable a degree of confidence in the commentary and identify him by name.

Champion has given up though. ''Crossing for his colleagues in the box'' a minute ago.
 


Beanstalk

Well-known member
Apr 5, 2017
2,454
London
I get the feeling Ally is trying his best not to say 'This is so hard, they all look so alike'' Luckily for Ally, the Right back has a head band on to enable a degree of confidence in the commentary and identify him by name.

Champion has given up though. ''Crossing for his colleagues in the box'' a minute ago.

Let's be fair to them, maybe they're all watching through ITV Hub too. Struggling to separate the two teams, let alone the individual players over here.
 



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