The boys at ITV were upset about technical problems last week but hope England v Algeria tonight is painless for everyone Imagine completing your GCSE maths exam without too many wrong answers, then finding that someone at your school forgot to send the paper off for marking. Imagine compiling a long and detailed report for your boss, only for your computer to crash inexplicably and propel your work into the ether. It has been a bruising week at ITV. Official apologies do not really wash but whether you thought our coverage of England’s opening game was good, bad or indifferent, I can confirm it did leave us in Rustenburg in one piece. Learning that the most important 10 seconds of it never arrived on the nation’s HD sets left post-match morale among our team in South Africa at Rob Green levels. Unlike Fabio Capello, ITV’s management did not select the individual who made the costly error. But, like the England manager, we can now only do everything within our powers to come up with a better result tonight. Capello and Co’s performance against USA divided opinions like most television programmes do. Football and telly are largely matters of opinion. A dozen different informed radio and TV pundits
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World Cup 2010: Apologies in advance for agony of watching England | Clive Tyldesley
