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Top 10 Football Swearing Incidents - Not for the Easily Offended!

May 14, 2008 | Filed Under: Features 

Sometimes footballers, managers and pundits swear in the heat of the moment, or simply because they don’t realise they are on air and their foul mouthed tirade has just been broadcast to an audience of millions. Here are the Top 10 uses of extreme profanity while live on television and unsurprisingly, some of the usual suspects appear more than once!

10. Alex Ferguson

The content of this clip is rather tame if some of the tirades during the infamous ‘hair dryer’ treatment is to be believed. Fergie responds to speculation from a Sky interviewer as “bulls testicles”.

9. Robert Di Matteo

The former Chelsea midfielder now full time television pundit describes some teams as being more tactically “inept” than others live on Sky’s Goals on Sunday programme.

8. Micah Richards Interview

The young Manchester City defender was obviously a bit overwhelmed after a match and being interviewed by the BBCs Garth Crooks.

7. Rodney Marsh

Not content with being dumped from Sky’s Soccer Saturday programme due to his poor taste Tsunami / Toony Army joke, Marsh can be heard off-screen during an episode of Premier League Allstars using the F-word much to the horror of a visibly shocked Ian Wright.

6. Harry Redknapp Interview

Portsmouth manager Redknapp doesn’t realise he is live on air and feels he has time to get a few F-words out of his system before delivering his verdict on his side’s 2-1 victory against Manchester United.

5. Christian Dailly

After losing 2-1 in Germany during a crucial Euro 2004 qualifier, hot-headed defender Christian Dailly can be heard off screen making his feelings quite clear and receives a telling off from (ironically) German Scottish team manager Berti Vogts.

4. Richard Keys

Fox Sports cuts into Skys live feed of the final day of the Premiership season and broadcast Richard Keys using the F-word when discussing a packed schedule with a crew member live to an unsuspecting Australian audience!

3. Harry Redknapp

Redknapp’s second appearance in this list and the most amusing. He let’s loose an F-word spattered tirade against an unamed Portsmouth squad player who kicks a ball at him during an interview.

2. Richard Keys

Keys’ second entry on the list but this one he is a lot more responsible for. The link up with commentator Davie Provan following Scotland’s Euro 2008 qualifier at the Faroe Islands failed, prompting Keys, who clearly thought he was off-air, to slate the importance of the match and finish with an F-word for good measure. People have been sacked from television for far less.

1. Stephen Bywater

While Keys kept his position a Sky, Claire Tomlinson was placed on leave for two months after she failed to reprimand Derby goalkeeper Stephen Bywater for spelling out the C-word mid anecdote during the Goals on Sunday programme in October 2007.

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