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Monkey's advent calendar: Everton fans see sweet FA of winning goal

Dan Gosling
Remember this? Not if you were watching on ITV. Dan Gosling celebrates with everton teammates. Photograph:Nigel French/EMPICS Sport/PA Photos

Monkey's award for sports programme of the year goes to ITV1 and its coverage of the FA Cup fourth round match between Liverpool and Everton. You remember, the one in which the broadcaster cut to an ad break in the dying minutes of the game only for viewers to return to the game to see 19-year-old Dan Gosling celebrating scoring the winning goal for Everton. Apparently an "automated system" was to blame, AKA someone put a Chinese takeaway box on the big red button marked "cut to the ads". It would never happen during the final of the X Factor.

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