Gary Lineker brutally trolls Manchester United after embarrassing BBC mistake

Leicester City legend Gary Lineker could not resist aiming a dig at Manchester United after an embarrassing BBC error.

A messaged appeared reading "Manchester United are rubbish" during a tennis update on the 9am to 10am television broadcast. Later on, BBC News presenter Annita McVeigh apologised to any United supporters who took offence, saying the mistake had happened as someone was learning how to operate the ticker and was "writing random things not in the earnest."

Another message read "Weather rain everywhere" also appeared on the show. McVeigh said: “A little earlier, some of you may have noticed something pretty unusual on the ticker that runs along the bottom of the screen with news making a comment about Manchester United, and I hope that Manchester United fans weren’t offended by it.

“Let me just explain what was happening: behind the scenes someone was training to learn how to use the ticker and to put text on the ticker, so they were just writing random things not in earnest and that comment appeared.

"So apologies if you saw that and you were offended and you’re a fan of Manchester United. But certainly that was a mistake and it wasn’t meant to appear on the screen. So that was what happened, we just thought we’d better explain that to you.”

Later in the day, BBC News apologised for the incident with an official statement reading: "There was a technical glitch during training with our test ticker, which rolled over to live programming for a few seconds. We apologised for any offence caused on air."

Following the apology, Match of the Day presenter Lineker took to Twitter to have a laugh about the accidental message. He quote tweeted the BBC story and said: "Why apologise?"

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