Piers Morgan made an embarrassing error when defending Manchester United superstar Cristiano Ronaldo by getting the club's Premier League result against Tottenham wrong.
Ronaldo has drawn heavy criticism after snippets from an interview with Morgan emerged after his teammates beat Fulham with a last-gasp winner from Alejandro Garnacho on Sunday night. Since then, the focus has been fixed on the five-time Ballon d'Or winner.
It has been a headline-driven season for the Portugal captain despite his bit-part role on the pitch. He expressed a desire to leave the club for a second time in the summer, missed the pre-season tour to Thailand and Australia due to personal reasons and then refused to come off the bench during a 2-0 win over Tottenham last month.
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Morgan has since appeared on radio station talkSPORT to discuss Ronaldo as that full-length interview prepares to be released into the public domain. However, when citing what happened against Tottenham, a game which United won 2-0, Morgan got his facts wrong.
It came as Morgan compared Erik ten Hag wanting to bring Ronaldo on against Tottenham to when he left Ronaldo on the bench with United losing heavily against neighbours Manchester City earlier in October.
Morgan said: "When they were getting hammered by Manchester City, he never brought him on and when he was asked why he kept making him warm-up and not bring him on, he said he didn't want to disrespect him. Then what happens a couple of weeks later, they play Tottenham and they're losing again and he orders him again to come on with three minutes to go.
"This is the same manager [Ten Hag] that weeks ago said he didn't want to do that because he didn't want to disrespect a guy who is one of the greatest to play the game. You can't have it both ways. It's either disrespectful to do that or you don't.
"Ronaldo admits he shouldn't have done what he did at the Tottenham game. He apologised to his teammates, but he's not sorry for refusing to go on to Ten Hag because he believes he [Ten Hag] was saying the complete opposite two weeks before."
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