Among several major sporting events broadcast in the past year the college-football national championship, Super Bowl, NBA Finals, Stanley CupFinals, the Masters and the World Series only the NBA Finals had a five-second delay.
Okocha is due to join the Super Eagles squad on 18 December ahead of the 2004 Nations Cupfinals in Tunisia, and Allardyce fully expects the 30-year-old to still be a Bolton player when he returns.
After the Super Eagles' failure to qualify from the group stages of the World Cupfinals, President Goodluck Jonathan banned them from international competition for two years, before relenting under pressure from the sport's world governing body, Fifa.