BBC News has apologised for not 'robustly' challenging football commentator Martin Tyler over comments made about the Hillsborough disaster.
In an interview on BBC Radio 4's Today programme this morning, Mr Tyler was speaking about 30 years of the Premier League. when referred to 'Hillsborough and other hooligan related issues' in words that have understandably caused great anger. It is widely known and accepted that disgraceful slurs made about Liverpool fans and hooliganism related to the 1989 disaster are untrue, as was clarified at the 2016 inquests which found Liverpool fans were unlawfully killed.
The veteran broadcaster's comments have been widely condemned and today the BBC issued an apology for not challenging him on them. A tweet from the BBC News Press Team account said: "We regret that we did not robustly challenge Martin Tyler on a comment which appeared to link Hillsborough and hooliganism. Martin has since apologised for the comment and clarified that these were separate examples & he did not intend to conflate the two."
