Sky Sports forced to issue live on-air apology as Scottish Premiership coverage suffers major disruption

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SKY SPORTS were forced to apologise after their live Scottish Premiership coverage suffered technical chaos.
The broadcaster is showing four matches across a bumper opening weekend of top flight action.
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Sky Sports had to apologise live on air
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Sky's on-air apology
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Saturday night's coverage of the big Fir Park clash between Motherwell and Rangers went smoothly.
But their second game of the weekend between Championship winners Falkirk and Dundee United didn't quite go to plan.
So much so, that mid-way through the first half, Sky were forced to issue an on-air apology to punters watching at home.
While pre-match analysis and build-up went without a hitch, a major issue cropped up once the game commenced.
That's because commentators Gary Weaver and James McFadden were way out of sync with the pictures.
Early on in the match, the sound appeared to briefly cut out and once it came back, it was very obviously not in sync with what was going on.
A sizeable delay appeared to be in play, with the commentators' description of what was happening not following until several seconds after the pictures had shown what they were describing.
Around the 25th minute of the match, a graphic appeared in the bottom right of the screen simply saying: "Apologies for sound issues."
The graphic remained on screen for around 10 minutes.
In the 35th minute of the game, the sound appeared to briefly dip out for a second or two and after that, the commentary was back in sync with the action.
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Presenter Eilidh Barbour also acknowledged the issues when she picked up in the studio during the half time break.
Addressing the audience, she said: "Apologies for the sound issues during that first half, hopefully you still enjoyed that first 45."
The issue didn't go down too well with punters watching on at home.
One said: "Match commentary well behind the TV pictures."
A second fan said: "Please fix the audio for the Falkirk/Dundee United game, it's about 30 seconds behind the actual game."
Another posted: "Thought it was just me. Even switched my TV on and off."
While the issue appeared to have been resolved before the half time whistle, it returned as the second half kicked-off with the commentary once again obviously well behind the pictures.
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