RTÉ’s commentary team have to do it on the phone for start of second half

George Hamilton sounded like he was in the International Space Station there for a second.

The term 'phoning it in' could not have been used in a derogatory sense on Wednesday night because that's literally what had to happen, the commentary team had to phone in their audio back to the studio. After United ripped CSKA Moscow to shreds in the first half of their Champions League clash in Russia and the RTÉ studio was mainly flat because of it, because they had nothing to really whinge about, Darragh Maloney sent the broadcast back to the VEB Arena where there was said to be an issue for every broadcast media in attendance.

"In the old days, when we went to somewhere as far away as Moscow, it sounded like we were in Moscow," Hamilton said when he was back on commentary. "Now it all sounds perfect."

Well... it didn't really sound perfect, in fairness. They were on the phone after all. From Russia. But it didn't really last too long either, in fairness. https://twitter.com/ConanDoherty/status/913129517585182720 The issue was resolved before anything really happened in the second period but not before everyone had their say on the matter. https://twitter.com/CullenEuan15/status/913128173889626112 Although it was a stadium-wide issue, this is not what we're paying taxes for. https://twitter.com/DanHeck18/status/913128866612486145