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Sky Sports person been called retired by fans aft making an embarrassing mistake during their sum of Sunderland's Championship play-off clash with Coventry City.
Sunderland won the archetypal limb of the semi-final necktie 2-1 astatine the Ricoh Arena implicit the play to borderline towards booking their spot successful the last against Sheffield United aboriginal this month.
The 2nd limb kicked disconnected connected Tuesday evening and neither broadside managed to marque a breakthrough successful the aboriginal stages astatine the Stadium of Light.
However, fans abruptly spotted that the scoreboard successful the apical near country connected Sky had started showing that Coventry were 2-1 up connected the nighttime to level the people astatine 3-3 connected aggregate.
Supporters were near bemused by the error, and took to societal media to question what precisely was going on.
'What are Sky doing with the people successful the Sunderland v Coventry game, saying it's 2-1 Coventry?' 1 puzzled instrumentality asked.
There was nary aboriginal breakthrough successful the 2nd limb of Tuesday's Championship play-off semi-final, but Sky started showing the people arsenic 2-1 to Coventry
Fans noticed that Sky Sports were showing wholly the incorrect people connected Tuesday night
One instrumentality was near wholly confused by Sky's embarrassing blunder
Another X idiosyncratic joked that they thought they started hallucinating erstwhile they saw the score
A Sunderland relationship saw the comic broadside arsenic they joked that Sky privation Coventry to win
'Sky showing the people arsenic 2-1 Coventry for a infinitesimal reyt (sic) confused maine there, however did that adjacent happen?' different protagonist added.
One X idiosyncratic joked: 'Anyone other spot that people alteration successful the Sunderland-Coventry crippled connected Sky Sports? I thought I was hallucinating.'
A Sunderland instrumentality relationship saw the comic side, arsenic they wrote: 'Sky truly privation Coventry to win, similar what's going connected with the scoreboard,' alongside a crying with laughter emoji.
The people was corrected aft a small implicit a minute, but that was inactive agelong capable for eagle-eyed fans to announcement the blunder.
With a spot astatine Wembley astatine stake, Frank Lampard's Coventry pushed for the opening extremity of the crippled to bring themselves level successful the tie, but were incapable to interruption the deadlock successful the archetypal half.
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