There was a notable lack of food for the hard-working BBC sport production staff in their shiny new studio at their Salford HQ during the World Cup this summer.
Sustenance would have been expected without question for both on-screen staff and those grafting behind the scenes, during the unsociable hours they were required to work as the tournament was broadcast from the other side of the Atlantic.
The decision not to feed behind-the-scenes staff, made by the BBC’s director of sport Alex Kay-Jelski, infuriated those left hungry. Their anger was compounded, say sources at the broadcaster, by the fact that Kay-Jelski could
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