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March 17, 2009 Tuesday
BBC APOLOGY OVER SOCCER RAPE REMARK
BYLINE: DAILY MAIL REPORTER
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THE BBC apologised yesterday after a Match of the Day pundit likened a tackle in a Premiership match to rape.
Former West Ham United manager Alan Pardew, 47, was condemned by women's groups for trivialising sexual violence.
He had been analysing a tackle by Chelsea midfielder Michael Essien on Manchester City striker Ched Evans in Sunday's game.
Mr Pardew said on Match of the Day 2: 'Ched Evans is a strong boy but (Essien) knocks him off . . . he absolutely rapes him.'
Co-hosts Adrian Chiles and Alan Hansen looked stunned, but there was no apology during the show.
Yesterday Lee Eggleston, chairman of Rape Crisis England and Wales, said: 'That something as serious as sexual assault has been mis-used to describe football is appalling. He has trivialised and undermined the seriousness of rape and anyone who has suffered sexual violence will rightly be angry hearing of it.'
A BBC spokesman apologised for Mr Pardew's comments but would not reveal whether he will be used as a pundit in the future.
She said: 'What Alan Pardew said was misheard. It was thought he used the word "rakes".
'If it had been heard, there is no question there would have been an on-air apology.
'Alan Pardew apologises unconditionally for any offence caused by remarks he made on the Match of the Day 2 programme last night. We have received a total of 35 complaints.'