BBC apologises for football reporter’s Madrid crash comment

Posted by Patrick Smith on 26 August 2008 at 09:56
Tags: Broadcast, Regional Newspapers

He says he was simply trying to be descriptive, but BBC Radio Manchester has had to apologise for a freelance football reporter’s comparison of a live match to the Madrid air disaster.

The Manchester Evening News reports that Chris Price was covering the Bradford vs Rochdale League One match on Saturday when he said during a live report that Rochdale “were making more holes in the Bradford defence than a Spanish aircraft”.

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