The BBC issues an apology when the phrase "Manchester United are crap" comes on screen.

The BBC issued an apology after a message on the news channel stated that "Manchester United are crap."

During a tennis update shortly after 0930 on Tuesday, the text appeared on the news ticker at the bottom of the screen by accident.

Later in the morning, broadcaster Annita Mcveigh expressed her regret to any Manchester United fans who were hurt.

She explained that the error occurred while someone was learning to use the ticker and was "writing strange things."

"Weather showers everywhere," stated another post that came on the ticker.

"A few minutes ago, some of you may have noticed something rather odd on the ticker that runs along the bottom of the screen with news-making a comment about Manchester United, and I hope that Manchester United fans were not offended by that," Mcveigh informed viewers.

"Let me just explain what happened: someone was training behind the scenes to learn how to operate the ticker and put text on it, so they were simply writing random stuff, not in earnest, and that comment appeared."

So please accept my apologies if you saw that and were upset because you support Manchester United.

"But that was a mistake, and it wasn't supposed to show up on the screen." So that was what happened, we just thought we’d better explain that to you.”

"There was a technical error during training with our test ticker, which rolled over to live broadcasting for a few seconds," according to a BBC statement.

"We apologized on air for any offense caused."

After Manchester City won the Premier League title on Sunday, BBC presenter and Manchester City fan Clive Myrie tweeted, "had nothing to do with this!!" with the hashtag MCFC.

Manchester United has underperformed by their standards in previous seasons, finishing sixth in the table and missing out on a Champions League spot. Erik Ten Hag, a former Ajax manager, is United's fifth permanent manager since Sir Alex Ferguson's retirement in 2013.