Nine apologises to Michael Clarke
Nine has apologised to Michael Clarke after he was fined by the ICC for offensive language picked up by their stump microphone.
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Nine has apologised to Australian cricket captain Michael Clarke after he was fined by the International Cricket Council for offensive language picked up by their stump microphone.
Clarke told England’s James Anderson to ”get ready for a broken f***ing arm” on Sunday at the Gabba.
He was charged by the ICC for ”using language or a gesture that is obscene, offensive or insulting” and fined 20 per cent of his match fee, about $3000.
Fairfax reports Nine had not gone to a commercial break after an over and the audio faders were accidentally left up.
”It’s obviously a very rare and isolated error on our part, and we’ll do our best to ensure it never happens again,” Nine’s head of sport, Steve Crawley, said. ”He an outstanding Australian cricket captain who’s just led his team to a marvellous and historic win. He doesn’t need or deserve that to be tarnished by our error and we of course apologise.”
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@DansDans – This cricket, not AFL or NRL.
At lot of arm chair critics here who have obviously never played a day of competitive sport in their lives…
The fact is this. The whole saga started with Anderson saying to Bailey ‘I’ll punch your f***ing head in’. I’d say that puts the whole thing in perspective.
Sure it wasn’t Joe the cameraman?
So Nine apologises to some goose because he swears, knowing there are microphones around? Weird.
So if a cricketer sledges an opponent on the field if it wasn’t recorded by a Channel 9 microphone is it deemed not to have happened?
Nine didn’t make him say those words. I don’t get why Nine is apologising.
We are sorry our mic picked up your swearing and threat of violent physical harm to an opposing team member……yeah great ch9
“We’re sorry we heard you swear”
Brilliant… just brilliant.
Did they make him say it? No!
Not their fault at all!
He knows the microphones are there.
So they all should remember that before they speak!
But are they going to “stump” up the cash for the fine!
Or….here’s an idea…He could just not swear near where there is a mic, regardless of whether he thinks it’s on or off.