Originally Posted by Steve Williams:
“Well, there was another example of this on Sky a few years back in the European U21 Championships, when Tyler and Smith failed to notice an England goal had been disallowed, and it took a good few minutes until they realised - although in that case the host broadcasters' graphics and the stadium scoreboard also changed. But again, you'd think they'd have noticed they hadn't kicked off.”
Today's instance was fairly similar in that the first indication that the goal had been ruled out was when the scoreboard was switched back from 1-1 to 0-1 - and Hawthorne and Quinn only made mention of it afterwards, as though they didn't realise the goal had been disallowed until they saw the score change themselves.
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“I don't think any of that tops the moment in the FA Cup a few seasons ago when Ipswich played West Ham, I think, and the Ipswich players spent so long celebrating a disallowed goal, West Ham scored while they were doing it.”
The most notable example of that sort of thing happening, of course, was when Sol Campbell "scored" in extra time in the England v Argentina France '98 match - and the England team were so busy celebrating thinking they'd won the match with a golden goal that Argentina went straight up the other end and nearly scored.
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“In Des Lynam's book, he talks about when he accidentally referred to a match as being on BBC2 instead of ITV2 - when he was on ITV, obviously - and after the show there was a massive post-mortem about it, Des saying "You would have thought I had defamed the Queen, replete with four letter words". But he says that nobody actually pointed it out when he said it, the director didn't say anything in his earpiece, and he said they'd done that he could have corrected himself and made a joke about it, but he remained totally oblivious to the whole thing.”
I remember Darren Fletcher trailing an upcoming match early on in his BT Sport career by saying "coming up on Sky Sports..."
I suppose the key thing is determining which mistakes can be written off because it's live TV and everybody makes mistakes and which are serious enough to warrant being addressed afterwards.
The instance you mention with Lynam was clearly one of the former but I wouldn't readily put Hawthorne and Quinn's today in the same category.