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'Painful' - Channel Seven slammed for Manchester United coverage

Channel Seven have been heavily criticised for their coverage of Manchester United's friendly against Perth Glory on Saturday at Optus Stadium.

Seven surprisingly won the rights to broadcast the match despite Fox Sports, SBS and Channel Ten usually televising the round ball game in Australia.

Deciding to show the match on Seven Two, instead of their main channel, the game was broadcast by Seven in standard definition with football fans far from impressed with the vision nor the commentary.

So Channel 7 paid money to televise one of the biggest football clubs touring Australia on their tv channels and they stick it on a SD channel so that they could show a Fast and Furious movie in HD.