What a ****ing balls up ITV!!!
What a ****ing balls up ITV!!!
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Colin_147

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409 posts

257 months

Wednesday 4th February 2009
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Watch 120 mins of football and they go for adverts with 2 mins to go WTF!!!!!!!!!!!

And obviously there is a goal!!

rah1888

1,589 posts

216 months

Wednesday 4th February 2009
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well, on a bright note, at least my telly hasn't packed up!

CobolMan

1,430 posts

236 months

Wednesday 4th February 2009
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I'm not a footie fan but I know how you feel which is why I'm glad F1 is going back to the Beeb.

king arthur

7,858 posts

290 months

Wednesday 4th February 2009
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Same as when they put a film on and you sit down to watch only to have a 20 minute break two-thirds of the way through for the sodding news.

Negative Creep

26,041 posts

256 months

Wednesday 4th February 2009
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Did I just hear Gerrard was injured? Couldn't have happened to a nicer person

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

284 months

Wednesday 4th February 2009
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Technical problem...

Blib

48,011 posts

226 months

Wednesday 4th February 2009
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Ads? In the middle of a match??????? Unheard of!
You sure you didn't switch over by mistake?

confused

ehyouwhat

4,606 posts

247 months

Wednesday 4th February 2009
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No, it was a technical error. Someone pressed a button at the wrong time. Pretty bad though, and only a half-arsed apology from the presenters. In fact, as I type, there seem to be further technical glitches on the channel (hung ident screen at the moment).

Edited by ehyouwhat on Wednesday 4th February 22:57

Moobs

279 posts

213 months

Wednesday 4th February 2009
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look at it now ha! I wonder how long.

billybuds

264 posts

247 months

Wednesday 4th February 2009
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What a joke, that was f***ing ridiculous

Martial Arts Man

6,703 posts

215 months

Wednesday 4th February 2009
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They announced Lescott as the Man of the Match before the post-game interviews, having given the award to someone else (Jagielka) only minutes beforehand.

All in all, a pretty useless coverage.

MAM

Rich-UK

1,431 posts

285 months

Wednesday 4th February 2009
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ITV and sports coverage = nono

MitchT

17,114 posts

238 months

Wednesday 4th February 2009
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CobolMan said:
I'm not a footie fan but I know how you feel which is why I'm glad F1 is going back to the Beeb.
+1

ITV's attitude towards live sports coverage is shameful. As is their attitude towards feature films... split by the news FFS!!! You get in the zone and then BAM! "Die Hard 3 will continue after the news". As if the commercial breaks don't do enough to ruin the atmosphere.

The Joker.

189 posts

218 months

Wednesday 4th February 2009
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Martial Arts Man said:
They announced Lescott as the Man of the Match before the post-game interviews, having given the award to someone else (Jagielka) only minutes beforehand.

All in all, a pretty useless coverage.

MAM
I think that was Eons Man of the match (Jagielka)and itvs man of the match was lescott ?
Good game though shame about Gerrardlaugh and i liked the fact that torres was match fit at the start of the game but as soon as jagielka had him in the bag he wasnt feeling too welllaugh
And the news from ITV is crap too a freindly protest at total makes the pork and cheese workers fear for their safety ?

jcwuk

1,127 posts

225 months

Wednesday 4th February 2009
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Colin_147 said:
Watch 120 mins of football and they go for adverts with 2 mins to go WTF!!!!!!!!!!!

And obviously there is a goal!!
What a Feck up ! I couldnt believe it .
Now I know why Sky get the Job - Itv was always crap on coverage.
Just wished Sky customer services could stop been like ITV and improve though.

AB

20,393 posts

224 months

Wednesday 4th February 2009
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Er, I watched it on ITV on Sky and it didn't?

I saw the goal etc?

f13ldy

1,432 posts

230 months

Wednesday 4th February 2009
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AB said:
Er, I watched it on ITV on Sky and it didn't?

I saw the goal etc?
It appears to be regional.

In the Saaarrrffff it occurred.

AB

20,393 posts

224 months

Wednesday 4th February 2009
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f13ldy said:
AB said:
Er, I watched it on ITV on Sky and it didn't?

I saw the goal etc?
It appears to be regional.

In the Saaarrrffff it occurred.
Thats good, so those with an interest in the match got to see it, seems fair. Was the advert for champagne and caviar?

tifiona

64 posts

268 months

Wednesday 4th February 2009
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Possibly different ITV areas - we're down south and definately had a problem.

Very amused that they cut back to the post match interview half way through (after advert)and it looked like it was being held in sauna!

Edited to say - someone got there first!

Edited by tifiona on Wednesday 4th February 23:25

GBR

35 posts

223 months

Wednesday 4th February 2009
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What a mess that was! However, as it crackled back to the match, the sense of elation was priceless! And all that matters is the Toffee's won!!!!!!!!!!! cloud9