ITV football coverage: Urge To Kill Rising

Aye, me too. Fucking class. Well done.

the commentary itself is fucking infuriating...they speak way too much but never say anything worthwhile. also after gerrard limped off to hear them carping on in worried tones for 20 mins must infuriate both sets of fans.

lovely dream sequence interview with gosling there.

http://italy.theoffside.com/files/2008/01/intermission.jpg

lol another fuck up.

the sellotape connecting the news to the football match has torn

Christ, they don't know what the fuck they're doing now.

please cut to townsend smoking and drinking a can

it's what rte would do

somewhere, a hamster lies dead inside a cog

they need to take the snowed in workplace approach to this and just shut the place down if it's not resolved in five minutes

And now, embarrassingly, a clock...

jesus, I'm actually hoping this gets a cheeky Lineker zing on Saturday

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLX100000000000000

itv fuckin it up 1987 style

also like that Tyldsley went on about what an amazing seasoned pro finish Gosling's winner was when it deflected off Mascherano's hand onto Skrtel's shin on the way in

I went to itv.com to see if post match interviews were up and got

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useless bastards

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ok what actually happened here? i watched it in the pub and, yeah, it looked like they were going to a break but footage was back on within about 5 seconds and we all to clearly saw the jammy goal. dunno what went on afterwards either, did they lose it again?

Game was ongoing, they cut to ad break (the wee sponsorship ad then couple of adverts) then straight back to the game in time to see lots of Everton players piling onto each other in celebration.

wtf

Internets suggesting that how long they outed for depended which ITV region you were watching on. I was watching ITV London, which was what was on that YouTube clip above, though other sources (including or something up there) suggest they rectified it quicker in other areas?

yeah Ailsa, I was watching on Granada (albeit not in NW England - long story) and they managed to cut back to the football just as the winger was about to cross. Still, it was remarkably inept.

I'm pretty sure this was an accident. They wouldn't have deliberately scheduled an ad break for 2mins before the final whistle.

Apparently there's two centres of broadcasting in the UK, one in Leeds and one in London, hence the two different streams.

I'm pretty sure this was an accident. They wouldn't have deliberately scheduled an ad break for 2mins before the final whistle.

Credit crunch, advertising revenue drying up, Carol Thatcher etc

I was watching on Granada (albeit not in NW England - long story) and they managed to cut back to the football just as the winger was about to cross.

Ah, right - so most Everton fans saw the goal and most Liverpool fans didn't. Sorted.

*high five*

The BBC did a similar thing during the epic Aberdeen vs Celtic match the other day that made it to 12 penalties a piece. Earlier on we'd had to switch from BBC1 to BBC2 for something, then in the middle of the (admittedly very very long) penalty shootout they switched back to BBC1 without warning! Thankfully we were watching at home, and could quickly change the channel, but I bet there was a lot of pubs having to do some quick channel changing to avoid riots.

An ITV spokesman said investigations were under way as to the cause and it was too early to say if the weather was to blame.

ba ha.

CraigG, how much of that Celtic game did you watch without being able to tell the difference between Aberdeen and Dundee Utd :-)

That was totally different as they did warn that they were switching channels for the news (it's not that unusual for over-running matches to jump between channels, they'd done it in the last round when Partick took Rangers to extra time as well). Unscheduled ad breaks in the middle of a game is a whole different kettle of fish.

I think with the semi-final they switch channels twice and didn't warn anyone the second time, which was in the middle of the shoot-out.

Ah, OK.

Andy Townsend thinks that Dawson is better than Gallas, Palacios is better than Song, Bale better than Nasri, Lennon better than Theo and Defoe better than Arshavin. And this guy gets paid to write and talk about football. I'll give him Gomes over Almunia though. This guy can go eat a fucking dick.

Dawson, Gallas- Haven't seen enough of Gallas to say. Dawson plays more, and is our third choice centre back. He's been good (often great) this season, but is always one step from disaster. Meh- I'll probably agree with you here.

Palacios is a better DM than Song, but then I don't think Song's a DM.

Bale is more useful/productive than Nasri, I think- certainly on the left.

Lennon is better than Theo.

Defoe seems to be a lot more useful than Arshavin, who I've heard a huge amount of complaints about from Arsenal fans this past season.

Gomes is better than Almunia.

Townsend can indeed eat a fucking dick- even aged 9 I always thought he was shit for Ireland and he's a shit commentator/pundit.

His 'tactics truck' was the single most embarrassing thing I have seen on sports-related tv.

Townsend is terrible but I gotta say, Arsenal-tinted glasses are on full display there, Sam

I should maybe underline that I'm willing to debate all of those except for lennon and gomes, but there's no way that even a majority of them are clear cut arsenal wins.

really the article is just toss though.

but while i'm winding sam-

woodgate or king vs vermaelen (esp king, ceterus paribus) debatable

at lm, modric > either bale or nasri

no room for thudd- deeply uneasy about this, but not moving fabregas even on challopday

thudd vs rosicky imo

no wait

diaby

thudd >>>>>>>>>> diaby

sorted

and oh yeah corluka sagna also debatable. i'd go for corluka myself.

so what i'm saying is that, depending on formation, we'd have fabregas, clichy, van persie and maybe vermaelen

and wenger. i would take wenger- that's kinda U&K

forgetting kranjcar, he's a classy & beautiful guy

bale >>> clichy

I think Townsend is right on the majority of those.

Arsh's unwillingness to perform for most of this season has been heart-breaking, frankly, but I wouldn't say Defoe is "better". "More useful" might well have been les mots just tbh.

   gomes
sagna woodgate vermaelen bale
         song
     nasri fabregas
lennon             arshavin    
       van persie

that wd be for a super attacking team
shitty basis for an article tho really

totally replacing song with palacios and nasri with modric in that team fwiw

i'm not claiming bale > clichy at LB tbh, bale still very ropey in defence.

xp 'timely piece' but yeah shitty article i think we're all agreed.

xp nasri for modric for sure

and clichy ISN'T ropey in defence?