Sky Sports have dismissed suggestions that they requested the Healy Park pitch be narrowed to make room for their equipment.

Tyrone manager Mickey Harte claimed after Saturday's Super 8s clash with Dublin that the pay-per-view station - and not he - had made the request. 

"This is incorrect. Sky Sports did not ask for the pitch to be narrowed, nor would we ever make such a request," a spokesperson for Sky Sports told the Irish Independent.

Harte said after the game: "Narrowing of the pitch is nothing to do with me.

"That was actually a request came through from Sky, that they would like more clearance at the side for their technology. The Omagh St Enda's club asked me would I be okay with it and I said, 'Work away'.

"People are reading too much into it in terms of a conspiracy theory. It was nothing to do with that. It was a practical matter."

 

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