ITV’s Euro 2016 intro really divided opinion

Without fail, the intros used by the BBC and ITV when covering major sporting events always seem to be talking points.

Take ITV's offering a couple of summers ago, for example. We struggled for months to get this out of our heads... https://youtu.be/uJb5VtCO2KE

With France's opener with Romania fast approaching, ITV debuted their latest fancy intro.

https://youtu.be/RC2aOK9FOhU Starring animated versions of Paul Pogba, Robert Lewandowski, Gareth Bale and more, the opening titles certainly divided opinion on Twitter. Many weren't too keen: https://twitter.com/randallbell/status/741332782975209474 https://twitter.com/rorsdm/status/741332705925816320 https://twitter.com/ae_dl129/status/741332809822965761 https://twitter.com/guztodd/status/741332871907008512

Harsh? Well, not everyone was quite so negative about it. Many other viewers were quite impressed.

https://twitter.com/IsMiseDaniel/status/741334111973986304 https://twitter.com/robbo_wwfc/status/741332831863988225 https://twitter.com/ploki29/status/741333394005594112 (Poor Paloma.) And with added Mark Pougatch, this man was really impressed with ITV. https://twitter.com/aidanleape/status/741333054229250048 Like it or not, we'll certainly be hearing / seeing plenty more of it in the next month or so. Let's see what the BBC have to offer on Saturday.