As always, it amazes me what the human brain comes up with when someone is at a loss for words and you can now add using an analogy that compared a Soccer team’s defense to the plane crash in Madrid, Spain last week. According to England’s Mail Online, reporter Chris Price was on-air when he decided to drop this lovely gem on the listening audience….
Reporter Chris Price was speaking live on air when he said Rochdale ‘were making more holes in the Bradford defence than in a Spanish aircraft’.
He was speaking on Saturday just three days after a Spanair plane crashed at Barajas International airport in Madrid killing at least 153 people. Outraged listeners complained to BBC Radio Manchester, which has now been forced to issue an apology.
Freelance journalist Price, 25, from Rochdale, said he had been trying to add some colour to his report during the live update on the League Two match.But he admitted he had made a ‘horrible mistake’.
One former BBC commentator described him as ‘unprofessional and stupid’. A spokeswoman for the BBC said: ‘This was an inappropriate remark and we would like to apologise to our listeners for any offence caused.’ Price, who has covered football and rugby for the BBC for a year, claimed he only had a split second to put the report together.
‘I honestly thought I was being descriptive,’ he said. ‘It wasn’t meant to be funny; it was just a descriptive phrase. If people are offended by what I said, then of course I apologise but I never intended to offend anyone.’
He added: ‘From the reaction there has been, if I could take it back then I would.’
Ah yes, the non-apology-apology. It’s one of my favorite moves that people use when they don’t really think they said anything wrong. Look, you don’t have to go all “Michael Richards” on us, but if you can’t apologize or see that comparing a defense to a plane crash in which 153 people died….you just don’t really deserve to be on-air.
BBC apologises after football reporter makes jibe about Spanish air crash during match commentary (Mail Online)
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