ITV drops the ball, again!

ITV1 was showing the Everton vs Liverpool FA Cup 4th round replay tonight, and it was 0-0 with just a few minutes left of extra time. Suddenly, ITV's playout system decides to start running commercials, early. And so we never saw the winning goal happen live. By the time the people at The London Studios realised something had happened and managed to override the system to get us back to the game, Everton were celebrating the goal, which we did not see happen. We got to see all the usual replays, but once again, ITV almost literally dropped the ball in their sports coverage yet again.

And as I say that it looks like their playout system has chosen now to throw a complete wobbly. Makes me think of the old Windows 95 dialog box of doom which used to read "This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down!".