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The BBC has apologised after a message appeared on the news channel saying \u201cManchester United are rubbish\u201d.<\/p>\n
The text mistakenly popped up on the news ticker at the bottom of the screen during a tennis update just after 0930 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Later in the morning, presenter Annita Mcveigh apologised to any Manchester United fans who may have been offended.<\/p>\n
She said the mistake had occurred as someone was learning how to operate the ticker and was \u201cwriting random things\u201d.<\/p>\n
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Another message which appeared on the ticker read simply: \u201cWeather rain everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mcveigh told viewers: \u201cA 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\u2019t offended by it.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet 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.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo apologies if you saw that and you were offended and you\u2019re a fan of Manchester United.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut certainly that was a mistake and it wasn\u2019t meant to appear on the screen. So that was what happened, we just thought we\u2019d better explain that to you.\u201d <\/p>\n
An official BBC statement added: \u201cThere was a technical glitch during training with our test ticker, which rolled over to live programming for a few seconds.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe apologised for any offence caused on air.\u201d<\/p>\n