BBC fans fume over ‘pointless’ England-France coverage | UK News

BBC viewers slammed the broadcaster for its “pointless” coverage of the England vs. France World Cup playoff tonight (July 18), branding it “lazy” after England misplaced out on a place in the ultimate to Argentina last week. England and France went toe-to-toe to resolve who would place third general in the match, while Argentina face Spain in the ultimate.

But the BBC, who had been overlaying the match, had been accused of “bringing out the E-team” to cowl the sport. Presenting the coverage was Jason Mohammad, with Kelly Somers as the reporter on the ground and Stephen Warnock performing as pundit. Jonathan Pearce commentated on the sport, joined by Matthew Upson as his co-commentator.

Social media customers had been fuming, with one tweeting: “If you need to know how little the 3rd place play off game means, take a look at the England team playing and then look at the lineup of the BBC presenter and pundits. Completely pointless.”

Somebody else moaned: “You can see what the BBC think of the Third Place Play Off with the E team put on the TV coverage.”

Another echoed: “If this match meant anything, this wouldn’t be the line up on BBC.”

While a fourth posted: “Wow even the BBC are not even pulling out the A-listers for this England game, it must be bad.”

Another agreed: “BBC didn’t even pull out the big guns for the third place play off, completely f***ing pointless. Massive damp squib of a World Cup.”

While any individual else said: “Haha even the BBC MOTD presenter and first choice pundits have all f***ed off home leaving the dregs and Martin Keown.”