Feb 11

Football Weekly Extra: Super Saha stars as Everton stun Chelsea

James is back with another top-banana podcast featuring John Ashdown, Barry Glendenning and Paul Doyle.

Midweek Premier League matches mean plenty of talking points: including Louis Saha increasing John Terry’s woe, Arsenal back to winning ways, and Aston Villa’s limited ambition against Manchester United.

Sid Lowe is on the phone from Madrid with the truth about those Cesc Fábregas to Barcelona rumours, while James’s Italian round-up includes news of Ultras storming Lazio’s training ground.

The pod preview the FA Cup fifth round including the mammoth Scummers V Skates game, revealing the truth behind their nicknames for each other, and Crystal Palace v Aston Villa.

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Dec 18

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

When ITV cut to an ad break at crucial point of cup tie

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.

ITVTelevision industryEvertonFA CupMonkeyguardian.co.uk

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