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Adrian Chiles brings you the coverage complaints thread

fredfertang

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Spent the first 10 minutes of the coverage complaining about the fact he gets paid to go to Brazil and watch the world cup.
Am getting a bit fed up with my future brother in law repeatedly moaning that this is the first WC since 1994 that no one has paid him to go and watch - I can't believe he really expects anyone to have any sympathy, but he seems to
 

Furball

Evil Scotsman
How the **** did that France team mess up so badly in 2002? Jesus so much class
Because Zidane did his thigh in pre-tournament and Pires wrecked his cruciate.

They went into that tournament with the top scorer in Ligue Un (Djibril Cisse), Serie A (David Trezeguet) and the Premier League (Thierry Henry) and scored 0 goals.
 

sledger

Spanish_Vicente
The ****ing "Brasilllll, Braaaaasssillllll" segments that played every time there was an advertisment break were just terrible.
 

Furball

Evil Scotsman
I hate this **** both broadcasters pull during tournaments. **** discussing the game we've just watched, let's talk about Ricky ****ing Lambert.
 

sledger

Spanish_Vicente
As mentioned in the other thread, I am not sure if Cannavaro being a pundit is so bad it's good, or just bad. Don't mean to belittle his English speaking abilities, he can speak English a lot better than I can speak Italian for sure, but he was actually incomprehensible at some points during the show.
 

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