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    Footie fans spot BBC blunder after Arsenal’s dramatic 4-2 win over Aston Villa

    EAGLE-eyed footie fans spotted a BBC blunder after Arsenal’s dramatic 4-2 win over Aston Villa today.The broadcaster accidentally reported the game was a 2-2 draw, despite the Gunners finishing victorious.
    Arsenal won a 4-2 at Aston Villa today but the BBC reported it was a 2-2 drawCredit: Getty
    Ollie Watkins celebrates scoring the opening goal against ArsenalCredit: PA
    The now-updated article said Unai Emery’s team denied his former club the chance to go back to the top of the Premier League in a “dramatic” tie at Villa Park.
    It concluded Villa’s “defensive strength was evident” as they “earned a well-deserved point”.
    But in reality, Arsenal netted two stoppage time goals in the 93rd and 98th minutes, resulting in a 4-2 win.
    Supporters were quick to clock the error and point it out on social media.
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    Bob Oliver tweeted with a laughing face emoji: “Did the reporter leave early?”
    Cheryl Swanick added: “Obviously wrote it at 90 mins.”
    And Rob Potts said: “The BBC want to get their app sorted.
    “Arsenal won 4-1 but the report of the game says it was a 2-2 draw.
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    “Rubbish reporting. Must have left before the finish.”
    Mikel Arteta said his side were “absolutely bouncing” after winning today’s “rollercoaster” game.
    Ollie Watkins and Philippe Coutinho put the home side in front on two occasions, only for fine strikes from Bukayo Saka and Oleksandr Zinchenko to level for Arsenal.
    A stoppage-time own goal by former Arsenal goalkeeper Emi Martinez and an even later clincher from Gabriel Martinelli put the Gunners’ stuttering title bid back on track.
    After breathing new life into their Premier League title challenge with the last-gasp win, Arteta believes his squad now have “more belief” than ever.
    He said: “The dressing room is absolutely bouncing.
    “We showed a lot of resilience, character and quality.
    “It was a rollercoaster, very emotional at the end.
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    “I feel it’s right back, with more belief than before because you have to turn performances into results.”
    Emery said after the match it was an “embarrassing” loss. More

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    Ryan Reynolds makes hilarious comment about Sheffield United – leaving BBC studio in stitches before Wrexham’s 3-3 draw

    WREXHAM owner Ryan Reynolds left BBC pundit Alan Shearer in stitches before Sunday’s 3-3 FA Cup thriller with Sheffield United.Canadian actor and Hollywood star Reynolds, 46, completed a takeover of the non-league club in 2021 with Rob McElhenney.
    Ryan Reynolds left BBC pundit Alan Shearer in stitchesCredit: Rex
    Ryan Reynolds is the co-owner of non-league side Wrexham, who will contest an FA Cup fourth round replay against Sheffield UnitedCredit: Instagram
    The National League leaders missed out on promotion last season but are targeting a cup run this year.
    Wrexham beat Championship side Coventry in the third round of the FA Cup to set up their clash with Sheffield United.
    Ahead of kick-off, Reynolds joined Match of the Day host Gary Lineker and pundit Shearer.
    And he left the studio in stitches as he claimed it would take a miracle to beat his high-flying team.
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    Reynolds said: “I get nervous for a match like today.
    “Sheffield United are three leagues above us, 70 teams above us. It’s a classic David vs Goliath.
    “You guys know this more than anybody on Earth, this is football.
    “This is the beautiful game.
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    “And I’m going to go on record and say there’s a chance – albeit a slim chance – that Sheffield United pulls off a miracle today.”
    A miracle did in fact happen at the Racecourse Ground.
    Wrexham were minutes from booking their place in the fourth round of the cup with a 3-2 win over ten-men Sheffield United.
    However, John Egan scored right at the death in the fifth minute of added time to send the game to a replay. More

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    ‘Real and relentless’ – BBC Sport reporter Emma Louise Jones has woken up to vile fan messages every day for YEARS

    BBC Sport reporter Emma Louise Jones has revealed she faces daily torment from fans sending her vile messages.The TV journalist has become a popular face on TV for her role on Match of the Day X, an offshoot of the popular highlights programme aimed at a younger audience.
    Emma Louise Jones is enjoying a growing career in sports journalism
    The presenter has spoken out about inappropriate behaviour from people online
    But the increased profile has also brought trolls and invading her social media pages.
    Jones has previously shared strange messages fans had sent her way.
    And she has now shared in detail how she feels about the disturbing DMs.
    She said on her Instagram: “I sometimes get told that if I ignore these comments they’ll stop.
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    “That’s not true. These messages have come thick and fast for years and I kept quiet about it. It never stopped.
    “I know we laugh at the vulgarity of them, but there’s also a real issue here with people feeling they can anonymously send explicit messages with zero repercussions.
    “I share them because I want people to understand what I (and so many others) wake up to every, single day. So that people know this stuff is real and relentless.”
    Jones’ post was triggered after she was sent yet another twisted DM.
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    Jones’ career is going from strength to strength and she currently has a role with BBC SportCredit: Instagram / @eljonesuk
    She shared a crude message a fan sent her about her underwear.
    In the past the former Leeds TV presenter has taken to publicly shaming those who send her messages.
    Jones’ 382,000 followers have often enjoyed her brutal putdowns. More

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    Gary Lineker laughs off Match of the Day ‘porn noise’ scandal & enjoyed half-time analysis with sex-filled innuendo

    GARY Lineker yesterday laughed off the Match of the Day “porn noise” scandal — and said he took great pleasure filling his half-time analysis with sex-filled innuendo.The presenter said the BBC has had to look at its security measures following YouTuber Daniel “Jarvo” Jarvis’s stunt.
    Gary Lineker laughed off the MOTD ‘porn noise’ scandalCredit: BBC/UNPIXS
    The presenter said he enjoyed his half-time analysis with sex-filled innuendo – pictured The Sun’s coverage of the story
    But Gary, 62, who memorably had an on-pitch “accident” during England’s 1990 World Cup opener, joked: “If you told me yesterday morning that I’d be on the front page of The Sun, involved with a porn ­scandal, I’d have s*** myself — again!”
    Gary added: “I thought it was funny, and the YouTube prankster has shown his work.
    “It was that loud that I couldn’t really hear myself think, or what the other guys were saying, and realised people could probably hear it at home so I knew I had to both keep it together, whilst also addressing the matter.
    “In these situations, you have to keep your head.
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    “Yes, it’s funny but you can’t overwhelm the show — you can’t ignore it.
    “But, and after the studio manager had located the strap-on phone, I started to have a bit of fun with it all.
    “So at half-time every question I asked about the analysis, my comments were some kind of reference to it.
    “Things like ‘Wolves huffed and puffed’ or ‘the only goal was a screamer — and not the only screamer we had’, and ‘Liverpool pressed really hard in trying to get behind them’ — all that kind of thing.
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    “It was daft but it really did amuse me. And once I realised it was a prank, I knew that if I started laughing I probably wouldn’t have stopped.
    “It was the most surreal and one of the strangest things I’ve ever encountered in broadcasting.”
    Prankster Jarvo, a serial pitch invader, had broken into the studio and activated a sexy sounds ring tone on a mobile phone, which he hid on the set.
    He then called the phone during Gary’s studio segments at the Wolves v Liverpool FA Cup replay at Molineux on Tuesday.
    The BBC later issued a po-faced apology.
    But Gary questioned that decision.
    He said: “I’m not sure why the BBC apologised because it’s not our fault obviously.
    “It’s a security issue, and there is a serious side to it; if someone can do that, they can do something else with something that could be more dangerous.
    “But, in this instance, I felt that universally people were finding it really funny.
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    “And actually I have to agree with them, even if it was at our expense.
    “It was enjoyed, I think . . . much like those people on that phone!” More

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    I’m the UK’s biggest prankster Dan Jarvis – shocking act we got away with AFTER pulling porno stunt on Match of the Day

    THE UK’s biggest prankster Dan Jarvis has revealed the shocking act he and a pal got away with after pulling his porno prank on MotD.Football fans were left stunned yesterday night as a bizarre “porn noise” interrupted BBC’s build-up to Wolves vs Liverpool.
    Notorious UK prankster Dan Jarvis was behind the porno stuntCredit: Dan Charity
    Gary Lineker was left in shock at the noises being played in the backgroundCredit: bbc
    The BBC presenter revealed exactly where the noise was coming fromCredit: gary lineker
    Pundits Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer struggled to hide their embarrassment as they were forced to compete with an odd noise that viewers likened to a porn film.
    It was later revealed that a notorious prankster Dan Jarvis had hidden a mobile phone on the TV set at Molineux.
    He activated the sexy sounds ring-tone simply by ringing the mobile as he watched the live pictures on BBC1.
    And the joker has now admitted that he carried out another cheeky act under security’s noses just minutes after planting the phone.
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    Prankster Dan revealed that he and a pal brazenly knocked back a beer from a hospitality box before getting out of the TV set.
    He told The Sun: “All the boxes were open and we just walked in there – there was no one to stop us.
    “We both had a Corona and just chilled out.
    “In those situations, you just want to be as relaxed as possible and be yourself, so that’s what we did.
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    “We did a cheers with the beers after getting out of there.  It was hilarious.
    “At that point we didn’t know we’d nailed it as there was still some time to wait.”
    The honking noises started just moments before the FA Cup third round replay was about to get underway.
    It was first played as Lineker went live to co-commentator Shearer who was waiting to speak to him in the stadium.
    Lineker started laughing and said: “I don’t know who’s making that noise.
    “I don’t know if somebody is sending a joke on someone’s phone, I don’t know if you heard it at home.”
    Being the professional that he is, Lineker continued to present the show impeccably despite the sound simply not going away.
    It kept stopping and then restarting almost immediately.
    A BBC spokesperson said: “We apologise to any viewers offended during the live coverage of the football this evening.
    “We are investigating how this happened.”
    However, former football star Lineker insisted that the BBC has “nothing to apologise for” after the controversy.
    The 62-year-old said: “The BBC have issued some sort of apology, I know not why. It’s certainly got nothing to apologise for.
    “It was quite hard to carry on the pre-match build-up and take it seriously when this was going on in the background.
    “As pranks go, it was a good one and credit to them. It was funny I thought.”
    Once the game had started, Shearer joked that it was coming from Danny Murphy’s phone with the ex-Liverpool man also in the studio.
    But Lineker took to Twitter to reveal exactly what had happened.
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    He uploaded a photo of a phone taped to the back of the set.
    The caption said: “Well, we found this taped to the back of the set. As sabotage goes it was quite amusing.” More

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    Gary Lineker breaks silence after ‘porn noises’ are played live in studio but says BBC has ‘nothing to apologise for’

    GARY LINEKER has insisted that BBC has “nothing to apologise for” after last night’s porn noise controversy.Viewers were left stunned as a bizarre “porn noise” interrupted their coverage of the Wolves vs Liverpool FA Cup clash.
    Gary Lineker was left red-faced when a porn noise interrupted BBC’s coverage of Wolves vs LiverpoolCredit: BBC
    The noise continued live on air as he spoke to Alan Shearer up in the gantryCredit: BBC/UNPIXS
    The BBC issued a grovelling apology after the incidentCredit: Getty
    Lineker told Newsnight he saw the funny side of it and said BBC had nothing to apologise forCredit: BBC
    Pundits Lineker and Alan Shearer struggled to hide their embarrassment as they were forced to compete with an odd noise that viewers likened to a porn film.
    It was later revealed that a notorious prankster had hidden a mobile phone on the TV set at Molineux for Liverpool’s FA Cup win at Wolves. 
    Daniel Jarvis, who is a serial pitch invader, then activated the sexy sounds ring-tone simply by ringing the mobile as he watched the live pictures on BBC1.
    That led to the BBC being forced into releasing a statement issuing a grovelling apology.
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    However, Lineker does not believe that an apology was in order as he insisted that he could see the funny side of the incident.
    He told Newsnight: “If you told me this morning that tonight I’d be on Newsnight talking about a porn scandal I would have been terrified.
    “When it started, I did recognise that sound. I think we’ve all been done with that when you open up a WhatsApp or something.
    “It was so loud I couldn’t hear anything that either Danny Murphy or even when I spoke to Alan Shearer. I could hardly hear what they said when the thing was going on.” I have to say I think it’s funny.”
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    The 62-year-old added: “The BBC have issued some sort of apology, I know not why. It’s certainly got nothing to apologise for.
    “It was quite hard to carry on the pre-match build-up and take it seriously when this was going on in the background.
    “It added to the whole game actually. I don’t think anyone cared for the game. We had a screamer of a goal which was kind of the tone of the whole show in some ways.
    As pranks go, it was a good one and credit to them. It was funny I thought.”

    The BBC’s apology read: “We apologise to any viewers offended during the live coverage of the football this evening. We are investigating how this happened.”
    The honking noises started just moments before the FA Cup third round replay was about to get underway.
    It was first played as Lineker went live to co-commentator Shearer who was waiting to speak to him in the stadium.
    Lineker started laughing and said: “I don’t know who’s making that noise.
    “I don’t know if somebody is sending a joke on someone’s phone, I don’t know if you heard it at home.”
    Gary Lineker revealed on Twitter that they found this phone in the studio which was making the noiseCredit: @GaryLineker
    Youtube comedian Daniel Jarvis claimed he was behind the chaos in the BBC studioCredit: Jarvo69 aka BMWJarvo
    Being the professional that he is, Lineker continued to present the show impeccably despite the sound simply not going away as it kept stopping and then restarting almost immediately.
    Lineker took to Twitter to reveal exactly what had happened by uploading a photo of a phone taped to the back of the set.
    The caption said: “Well, we found this taped to the back of the set. As sabotage goes it was quite amusing.”
    Serial pitch invader Jarvis claimed responsibility for the incident.
    The YouTuber, whose account name is Jarvo69, hosted a live stream as he hijacked the BBC’s coverage.
    He proudly announced at the beginning of the video: “Here we are, we have set up a phone with a loud sex noise in the BBC studios at the Wolves v Liverpool FA Cup replay.”
    Jarvo69 watches the coverage with his phone held carefully in hand, waiting for the moment to pull off his practical joke.
    He has also now posted a short video to Twitter showing himself in the Beeb studio before coverage began.
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    He wrote: “Yes, it was me that pranked the BBC Match of the Day with the sex phone. The video coming soon!!!! Best prankster ever!!!”
    Jarvis has a long history of big stunts during sports events, and once even invaded the stage on the X Factor in 2016. More

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    BBC forced to release grovelling apology after porn sounds hit coverage of Wolves vs Liverpool FA Cup clash

    THE BBC has been forced into a grovelling apology after viewers were left stunned as a bizarre “porn noise” interrupted their coverage of Wolves vs Liverpool.Pundits Gary Lineker and Alan Shearer struggled to hide their embarrassment as they were forced to compete with an odd noise that viewers likened to a porn film.
    Gary Lineker was left stunned as the sex noises were played in the backgroundCredit: BBC
    He later revealed that this phone had been found and was behind themCredit: @GaryLineker
    It was later revealed that a notorious prankster had hidden a mobile phone on the TV set at Molineux for Liverpool’s FA Cup win at Wolves. 
    Daniel Jarvis, who is a serial pitch invader, then activated the sexy sounds ring-tone simply by ringing the mobile as he watched the live pictures on BBC1.
    That led to the BBC being forced into releasing a statement issuing a grovelling apology.
    A spokesperson said: “We apologise to any viewers offended during the live coverage of the football this evening. We are investigating how this happened.”
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    The honking noises started just moments before the FA Cup third round replay was about to get underway.
    It was first played as Lineker went live to co-commentator Shearer who was waiting to speak to him in the stadium.
    Lineker started laughing and said: “I don’t know who’s making that noise.
    “I don’t know if somebody is sending a joke on someone’s phone, I don’t know if you heard it at home.”
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    Being the professional that he is, Lineker continued to present the show impeccably despite the sound simply not going away as it kept stopping and then restarting almost immediately.
    Lineker took to Twitter to reveal exactly what had happened by uploading a photo of a phone taped to the back of the set.
    The caption said: “Well, we found this taped to the back of the set. As sabotage goes it was quite amusing.”
    Serial pitch invader Jarvis claimed responsibility for the incident.
    The YouTuber, whose account name is Jarvo69, hosted a live stream as he hijacked the BBC’s coverage.
    He proudly announced at the beginning of the video: “Here we are, we have set up a phone with a loud sex noise in the BBC studios at the Wolves v Liverpool FA Cup replay.”
    Jarvo69 watches the coverage with his phone held carefully in hand, waiting for the moment to pull off his practical joke.
    He has also now posted a short video to Twitter showing himself in the Beeb studio before coverage began.
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    He wrote: “Yes, it was me that pranked the BBC Match of the Day with the sex phone. The video coming soon!!!! Best prankster ever!!!”
    Jarvis has a long history of big stunts during sports events, and once even invaded the stage on the X Factor in 2016. More

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    Wolves vs Liverpool ‘porn noise’ culprit found as serial pitch invader Daniel Jarvis claims responsibility for TV prank

    A YOUTUBE comedian has owned up being the culprit behind ‘porn noises’ being heard during the BBC’s FA Cup coverage. Viewers were left stunned as erotic moaning was heard while Gary Lineker attempted to host coverage of Wolves and Liverpool’s FA Cup replay.
    Gary Lineker was caught on the wrong end of the prank and struggled to keep a straight faceCredit: BBC
    The prankster used a hidden phone to emit the noiseCredit: Jarvo69 aka BMWJarvo
    This Youtube comedian managed to cause chaos in the BBC studioCredit: Jarvo69 aka BMWJarvo
    The popular TV host struggled to keep a straight face as he spoke to pundit Alan Shearer while the strange noises continued to invade the studio.
    Now an online prankster has claimed credit for the stunt.
    The Youtuber Jarvo69, whose real name is Daniel Jarvis, hosted a live stream as he hijacked the BBC’s coverage.
    Jarvis has a long history of big stunts during sports events, and once even invaded the stage on the X Factor in 2016.
    He proudly announces at the beginning of the video: “Here we are, we have set up a phone with a loud sex noise in the BBC studios at the Wolves v Liverpool FA Cup replay.”
    Jarvis watches the coverage with his phone held carefully in hand, waiting for the moment to pull off his practical joke.
    Coverage begins and while Lineker discussing the game with Paul Ince and Danny Murphy, the prankster is on the phone receiving instructions on when to trigger the sex noises.
    He then calls the hidden phone in the BBC studio, which appeared to have a ringtone of the sex noises uploaded onto it.
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    Jarvis celebrates after successfully getting one over the BeebCredit: Jarvo69 aka BMWJarvo
    Gary Lineker revealed on Twitter that he found the phone at the centre of the prankCredit: @GaryLineker
    The comedian can then hardly contain his glee when the loud and disruptive noises burst into the studio and eventually breaks into celebration.
    Lineker and Shearer desperately try and stay professional as the groans and moans continue.
    Almost 4,000 people viewed the livestream and the moment quickly went viral.
    Lineker lated posted a picture of the phone and tweeted: “Well, we found this taped to the back of the set. As sabotage goes, it was quite amusing.”
    Jarvis responded to the tweet with the message: “It was me.”
    Reading manager Paul Ince was providing punditry just as sex noises were being pumped into the studioCredit: Jarvo69 aka BMWJarvo
    He has also now posted a short video to Twitter showing himself in the Beeb studio before coverage began.
    He wrote: “Yes, it was me that pranked the BBC Match of the Day with the sex phone. The video coming soon!!!! Best prankster ever!!!”
    Jarvis has 174,000 Youtube subscribes and has form when it comes to high-profile football pranks.
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    He has previously uploaded a video to Twitter showing him sneaking onto the pitch after the Champions League Final last year.
    The prankster managed to hug Vinicius Junior and Eder Militao after getting by security by donning a Real Madrid shirt. More