To think the BBC can’t win

[Jeraboah]

The BBC can’t win.

They take a massive crew of pundits to North America - everyone cries about them wasting taxpayers money.

Alternatively, they leave the pundits to broadcast from a studio in Salford - and everyone cries about the coverage being “budget” and “cheap”.

My own view is that I have no issue with the pundits actually being there and think the studio being in the country where the World Cup does add to the “big event” atmosphere.

However, my main view is they’re damned if they do, they’re damned if they don’t.

AIBU?

It’s just the era we live in I think. Can’t do right for doing wrong. Can’t please all of the people all of the time. Permanently offended etc etc.

Yes - it is very hard to please everyone. They need to take a line, justify it and then get on with it.

They made a mistake not going. It’s lifeless. I’m not bothering to watch their coverage

This World Cup is so spread out though. So unless they flew the crew around between Canada, the US and Mexico, then they’d often be broadcasting hundreds, if not thousands, of miles away from where the match was being played - and in that case they might just as well be in the UK.

It’s not like the olympics where everything is in one city, or even like a European one-country-host World Cup where everything is closer together.

Just listening to radio five live and seems like their presenters are there and BBC TV are not!

I guess its because they have commentators at the matches

Normally I am very critical of the bbc. But it doesn't make sense of the anchor and main pundits to be in the US (or Mexico or Canada) this world Cup is too spread out and they are better for off staying in London and using the commentators and pundits to get a feel of the place.
My favourite radio station talksport in the past has sent almost every presenter to Brazil or south Africa. They have only sent a few as well

Fair point but ITV are broadcasting from a single rooftop location in Brooklyn, with great views of the bridge and Manhattan. It adds to the atmosphere, even if they’re reporting on a game in Mexico City or Toronto or Texas.