ITV Sport lose pictures from Brazil

More likely. Globo (which broadcasted the game here in Brazil) had many problems of its own for today's telecast.

According to someone who works for ITV posting on Digital Spy, the host broadcasters - Pitch International - who were contacted by the FA were responsible for the poor 60 > 50hz conversion, the CGI adds and the loss of the feed at half time.

Apparently the world feed only reappeared sporadically during the second half, the fact that we saw it all was due to ITVs backup, which is why the CGI adds disappeared. There were over 30 broadcasters taking the game outside South America. Only 3 of them got the whole game. Al Jazeera were taking ITVs feed.

I did notice one thing - the virtual ads had an unnatural "bump" in them where one "panel" was out of sync with the others.

Did Chilesey bring his rucksack with him?