The BBC has issued an apology after a message on the news channel stated that “Manchester United are rubbish.”
During a tennis update shortly after 0930 on Tuesday, the text appeared on the news ticker at the bottom of the screen by error.
Later in the morning, broadcaster Annita Mcveigh expressed her regret to any Manchester United fans who were hurt.
She explained that the error occurred while someone was learning to use the ticker and was “writing strange things.”
“Weather rain everywhere,” stated another post that came on the ticker.
“Some of you may have noticed something rather peculiar on the ticker that runs along the bottom of the screen with news making a mention about Manchester United a little earlier,” Mcveigh told viewers.
I hope it didn’t anger Manchester United supporters.
“Let me just explain what happened: someone was training behind the scenes to learn how to operate the ticker and put text on it, so they were simply writing crazy things not in earnest, and that remark emerged.”
So please accept my apologies if you saw that and were offended because you support Manchester United.”
But that was clearly a mistake, and it wasn’t supposed to show up on the screen. So that’s what happened, and we just felt we’d best tell you about it.”
“There was a technical error during training with our test ticker, which rolled over to live broadcasting for a few seconds,” according to a BBC statement. We apologised on air for any offence caused.”
Manchester United stars Paul Pogba, Amad Diallo wave Palestinian flag amid genocide in Gaza
After Manchester City won the Premier League title on Sunday, BBC presenter and Manchester City fan Clive Myrie tweeted, “had nothing to do with this!!” with the hashtag MCFC.
Manchester United has underperformed by their standards in previous seasons, finishing sixth in the table and missing out on a Champions League spot. Erik Ten Hag, a former Ajax manager, is United’s fifth permanent manager since Sir Alex Ferguson’s retirement in 2013.
