Chris Sutton brands SFA an EMBARRASSMENT as Sky Sports escalates Hampden row amid Nick Montgomery mic KO

Sky Sports have hit out at the SFA after accusing them of BLOCKING their bid to mic up Hibs boss Nick Montgomery during the Edinburgh derby at Easter Road.

SFA sources have told Record Sport that the innovative move collapsed due to an IFAB law which prohibits ‘electronic communication’ involving players and coaching staff. However, Sky Sports anchor Eilidh Barbour pinned the blame on Hampden chiefs as Sky Sports started their live coverage from Leith.

As part of what would have been a Scottish football first, Montgomery's assistant Sergio Raimundo was also due to wear a body cam with cameras also inside the home team's dressing room. But Barbour said: “The SFA have blocked putting a microphone on Nick Montgomery and a body cam on coach Sergio Raimundo.”

Former Celtic striker and Record Sport columnist Chris Sutton, working as a pundit at Easter Road hit out on social media as he said: "Nick Montgomery was open and happy to be mic’d up for tonight’s Edinburgh derby. It would have been fascinating to hear how he worked and his mindset in-game. But for whatever reason the SFA blocked it. The SFA are an embarrassment and stuck in the past. Dear me…"

Ex Rangers striker Kris Boyd – speaking on Sky Sports – said: "It is a shame. You want to move the game forward and there plenty of people up here with enough to say about Sky when you try and do something to improve it and make it better and give fans an insight behind the scenes. But it has been blocked. We move on in Scottish football."

IFAB - the body that determines the laws of the game - told the league body, Hibs and the broadcaster that such a move isn't allowed due to Law 4 which reads: 'Electronic communication' reads: "Players (including substitutes/substituted