A ‘slight prodding’ in this context could mean many things
BBC apologises for calling a spade a spade
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I literally howled
What was even funnier was the concern United fans might be offended!
The issue is that they misled their audience by treating it as a breaking news.
How did you deal with the disappointment?
Investors could have been watching which could have caused our stock price to tank potentially ruining the club.
I don't know anything about finance and economics though.
Yeah, they've severely underestimated our fanbase if they think we'd be offended. I suppose there are certain other fanbases that would start a long boycott campaign against the BBC for something like this, complete with reams of epic rallying doggerel poetry. Us? We just laugh wryly, shrug, say, "True, that," and go about our day.
Quite funny really!!
In other news... City are plastic, Liverpool are delusional and Leeds are scum
In other news... City are plastic, Liverpool are delusional and Leeds are scum
Same way Madrid acted towards PSG, I obviously lodged a formal complaint.
I can see a journalist wasting a question on this at ten Hag's next press conference
Imagine had it happened to certain other clubs? There’d be a campaign and a song released by now.
As long as you now don't introduce yourself as a BBC lover, you'll be fine.
Good lord.
They’re not wrong
It could be worse. It could have been that big news network BWC mocking us.
Apology is not enough. Should compensate United fans with free BT Sports for a year
Why apologies for that? It´s true, can´t be wrong stating the facts.
Half of Red Cafe immediately take acception to the BBC by quoting ETH that we are a top 2 side. 
Just because it is truth, it can't be on ticker. Else there would have been a permanent ticker saying "The country is run by clowns"
Well she invited me to a BBC* group on Facebook so I guess me being a BBC* lover kinda goes with the territory.
*British Born Chinese for both, not the Tory kind or the Lukaku kind
I'd say the intern went fairly easy on us all things considered.
The Beeb have done much worse. There was that time where this guy came into the building to be interviewed for something like a janitor job or something but they thought he’d come to be interviewed on a news programme, as an expert on some big news issue. He made it onto a live broadcast until some producer realised they’d got the wrong guy.
Google it. Work laptop will be fine.
Yes, it is truthful for the past season but these things shouldn't happen because tomorrow we could have another BBC Trainee writing Liverpool are delusional and the next day another trainee writing City are shite and all of which are truthful.
BBC will really be funnier than it is presently.
BBC will really be funnier than it is presently.
Yeah, this won't lead to anything, especially because we are still widely despised for ruining a lot of people's childhood .
If this were Liverpool on the other hand... they'd have stopped airing the BBC in Scouseland.
.If this were Liverpool on the other hand... they'd have stopped airing the BBC in Scouseland.
BBC spitting truth.
I blame Lingard or Pogba
That’s actually newsworthy indeed
Reporting factual news for once.
I'll never be able to think about the BBC again without thinking about a BBC.
Well done, you reprobates!
Well done, you reprobates!
Objection - Hear Say!!
That's on you
Don't get on the wrong side of the wrong intern.
Damn, it's not every day the BBC tears you a new one. And in public no less! Considering the power of the BBC there's definitely an extra degree of humiliation involved. Then again, sometimes you just got to take it on the chin and accept the sticky situation.
United have issued a statement strongly confirming the news to be absolutely true.