BBC apologise for loud pornographic moaning heard during FA Cup coverage
Gary Lineker has revealed the loud moaning noises heard during the BBC's live FA Cup coverage between Wolves and Liverpool were caused by a hidden mobile phone "taped to the back of the set".
The BBC presenter was previewing the third-round replay in a studio at Molineux alongside pundits Paul Ince and Danny Murphy when awkward and audible pornographic wails broke out in the background.
Lineker looked momentarily startled by the prank and struggled to keep a straight face thereafter as he cut to colleague and fellow former England striker Alan Shearer in the commentary gantry.
Lineker tried to laugh off the incident as the noise continued to blare out and said to Shearer: "Somebody's sending something on someone's phone, I think. I don't know whether you heard it at home."
Once the match had begun, Lineker revealed the cause, tweeting a picture of a mobile phone and three laughing emojis alongside the words: "Well, we found this taped to the back of the set.
"As sabotage goes it was quite amusing."
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