Viewers baffled as World Cup commentary 'hacked' live on air
Yesterday's absorbing football contest between Brazil and Morocco at the FIFA World Cup hit a bit of a glitch when it came to commentating.
BBC One's duo of Guy Mowbray and Alan Shearer were the voices covering the event, which ended up finishing 1-1 at the New York New Jersey Stadium, but their microphones were seemingly 'hacked' at the beginning of the second half.
Just as Real Madrid superstar Vinicius Jr missed a golden opportunity to score a brace, Mowbray and Shearer unwittingly welcomed a third voice into the booth.
With no change in image quality or anything along those lines, this unidentified person could be heard saying: "Thank you. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Go, go, go. Do you want to speak to me on the cord on the headset or are you not bothered about that? Yeah, two secs then."
Clearly one of the BBC directors had got his lines crossed, and believe it or not, this gaffe made waves over on social media too.
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Posting about it via X, one football fan wrote: "Some random guy just started talking in the BBC commentary for Brazil vs Morocco?"
A second response read: "BBC commentary made me think I'm having auditory hallucinations for a sec..."
"Is it me or did the BBC coverage pick the VAR conversations as temporary commentary? #WorldCupShockingMoment," added another X user.
Alluding to the time difference between the UK and North America, someone else joked that it served as a wake-up announcement.
"BBC commentary doing a good job of keeping me awake just then - 'Go Go Go,'" they tweeted.
But this wasn't to be the only cock-up from the Beeb, because just a couple of hours later it's coverage fellow Group C game Scotland vs Haiti was haunted by a technical fault.
Once a Scottish-themed montage had concluded, studio footage featured pundit Scott Brown receiving instructions as presenter Kelly Cates did her thing.
In other World Cup news, we've already been treated to this summer's crappest pitch invader.
In a social media clip, the USA fan climbed over a railing and onto the ledge that separated the stand from the pitch, just as his team had scored their fourth goal.
Unsure of how to smoothly execute the drop, this allowed security crews to prepare for his arrival.
He proceeded to pace up and down the ledge while holding a football, but the element of surprise had dissapated by this point.
One fellow attendee could be heard calling him a 'f***ing idiot', while somebody else shouted 'you dumbass!'
Dan Seddon