BBC Sportscaster Defines “Too Soon” By Making Spain Plane Crash Joke

Chris Price, a BBC soccer reporter, crashed and burned this past weekend when he was covering a Barclays match in England against Rochdale and Bradford. Price tried to spice up his broadcast by saying Rochdale ‘were making more holes in the Bradford defence than in a Spanish aircraft,’ a joke referencing last week’s Madrid plane crash that killed 150 people, some of whose bodies are so charred that they’ll never be identified. Ba-rump-bump. Shortly thereafter, of course, the sorrys came out from everyone involved.

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’.

‘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.’

Although, if everyone kept their pieholes shut, he would’ve gone on about the goalkeeper being on his back more than his mother during her day shift.
BBC apologises after football reporter makes jibe about Spanish air crash during match commentary [Daily Mail]
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