THOSE OF YOU watching RTÉ’s Champions League coverage last night may have been a bit miffed when veteran presenter Bill O’Herlihy reeled off a peculiar statistic about Manchester United manager David Moyes.
On Tuesday, The Guardian‘s Daniel Harris had jokingly written in daily transfer gossip column ‘The Rumour Mill‘ that:
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However, Billo (or his researcher) obviously took it to be true and put the quote to Eamonn Dunphy and Kenny Cunnigham.
This morning, Harris tweeted: “Wrote that Moyes spent 10 months watching 39,432 players a total of 5,097,301 times. Someone on telly believed me.”
VIDEO: Bill O'Herlihy falls for fake statistic, quotes it live on air
THOSE OF YOU watching RTÉ’s Champions League coverage last night may have been a bit miffed when veteran presenter Bill O’Herlihy reeled off a peculiar statistic about Manchester United manager David Moyes.
On Tuesday, The Guardian‘s Daniel Harris had jokingly written in daily transfer gossip column ‘The Rumour Mill‘ that:
However, Billo (or his researcher) obviously took it to be true and put the quote to Eamonn Dunphy and Kenny Cunnigham.
This morning, Harris tweeted: “Wrote that Moyes spent 10 months watching 39,432 players a total of 5,097,301 times. Someone on telly believed me.”
Oh dear.
Source: BasicYoung Fellas
(h/t: Balls.ie)
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