Viewers were left aghast when a pulsating and delicately poised north London derby entered injury time and BT Sport’s coverage suddenly disappeared. Screens were filled with an apologetic message.
Unlike ITV, who missed Dan Gosling’s FA Cup winner for Everton against Liverpool in 2009 after accidentally switching to a Tic Tac advert and whose HD channel failed to broadcast Steven Gerrard’s goal against the USA in the 2010 World Cup, BT Sport did not miss a goal. The feed returned just as Spurs’ Kevin Wimmer was making a match-saving block from Aaron Ramsey.
After the match the presenter, Jake Humphrey, apologised and blamed a local power outage. As he cut to an ad break he said: “What a pleasure that was, apart from the couple of minutes that you lost ...”
Sadly for the broadcaster, BT Broadband (other suppliers are also available) was working well enough for thousands of aggrieved supporters to abuse them on Twitter.
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