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Football Federation Australia (FFA) have slammed the TV coverage of Liverpool’s friendly clash with Sydney FC .

Home broadcaster ABC infuriated viewers by getting comedians Jules Schiller, Tegan Higginbotham and Steen Raskopoulos to present their pre-match build up and analysis.

Their cringe-worthy jokes didn’t go down well with former Socceroo and Fox Sports commentator Robbie Slater branding the coverage “unforgivable, unacceptable and embarrassing”.

“How can we work so hard for 12 years and allow this to happen in front of a world audience,” he said.

The FFA also registered their dissatisfaction with the management of ABC.

“Like many fans, FFA is disappointed with some aspects of the ABC’s broadcast of the Sydney FC v Liverpool FC match last night,” they tweeted.

“Pre-game, half-time & post-game coverage wasn’t to standard expected by FFA and football fans. We’ve made that point to ABC management.”

During half-time ABC’s reporter asked a fan in the crowd what his “favourite possession” was before saying: “I’ve been possessed with the spirit of football. I love it, I bet you love it at home, too.”

Schiller, who was one of the hosts, responded to the stick on Twitter by saying: “Learnt that to be centre of a Twitter hate storm it’s a worse crime to do badly reviewed sports coverage than propose blowing up ABC staff. Comments noted Twitter. I’ll always love football and its passion.”