Sky Sports News suffered a malfunction on Thursday afternoon as the programme cut out shortly after conducting a cup draw.
The round of 16 draw for the Vertu Trophy, the competition that incorporates League One and League Two teams alongside several select Premier League Under 21 sides, had just been taking place.
Host Will Perry was joined by former EFL stars Luke Chambers and Jobi McAnuff as various teams learned their fates.
However, shortly after that finished, the programme cut out, with fans left curious as to what had gone on.
The channel had reverted to its usual format and had been discussing the breaking news that Jude Bellingham was not expected to start for England against Serbia on Thursday night.
Host Matt Kabir Floyd had continued to discuss the issue and topic of Thomas Tuchel‘s selection headaches.
Sky Sports News cut out on Thursday afternoon shortly after conducting a cup draw
Focus then moved on to coverage of the DP World Tour Championship where Tommy Fleetwood and Rory McIlroy were in the running towards the top of the leaderboard.
However, the programme then cut out and Floyd went quiet, before a message appeared on the screen which simply read: ‘We’re really sorry for this temporary fault.’
The outage continued for a few minutes, after which the programme moved to adverts.
During the outage, the typical Sky Sports News screen was still operating, with the yellow ticker-tape continuing to run at the bottom.
The adverts then ran more more than five minutes before the programme returned and continued as usual, with no mention of the outage as Floyd pressed on with his duties.
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