Alan Shearer and Gary Lineker have opened up on the unique experience of their BBC coverage of Wolves versus Liverpool being sabotaged by a YouTube prankster.
The former Premier League strikers were left red-faced in January of this year when working on Liverpool's FA Cup third-round replay at Molineux after pornographic sounds were heard during the live broadcast.
Lineker, who was hosting in the studio alongside Danny Murphy and Paul Ince, was preparing to ask co-commentator Shearer a question when he was stopped in his tracks.
“I don’t know who is making that noise,” said Lineker on air when X-rated noises emerged, with the sounds of moaning continuing over Shearer’s answers. “Someone is sending something on someone’s phone I think. A joke, I don’t know whether you heard it at home.”
The pair managed to work through this embarrassing moment, with it later emerging it occurred after YouTuber Daniel Jarvis had managed to tape a phone to a back of a seat and was playing audio from this device.
Reflecting on being the victim of this prank on national television, Lineker told FourFourTwo: "I was interviewing Alan when it was actually going on."
Shearer replied: "Yeah, I was on the co-comms, so I was inside the stadium. I could hear it and there was a part of me thinking it was my phone."
"It's the porn he was listening to the night before," joked Lineker.
Shearer added: "I'd been tricked by people sending me that video so many times, and I'm thinking 'Has it gone off in my pocket?' I tried to be professional and ignore it - I only started laughing when you started laughing!"
Shortly after Wolves versus Liverpool had begun, Lineker took to Twitter to clear up the confusion over the pre-match incident: “Well, we found this taped to the back of the set. As sabotage goes it was quite amusing,” tweeted the former Everton forward, along with a picture of the offending phone.
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