For anyone watching Match Of The Day 2 last night with the subtitles on, you may have thought you were seeing things when a certain bit of text popped up onto the screen.

Many people tuned into the BBC last night to catch up on the best action from the Sunday’s Premier League fixtures. Arsenal’s 2-0 victory over Brighton & Hove Albion, Burnley’s shock victory over Everton at Goodison Park and of course, the small matter of Newcastle and Liverpool at St James’ Park.

Ultimately, the events in the north-east garnered the most attention, especially with the underlying narrative of Rafa Benitez coming up against his former club, one which he still has a lot of love for.

Anyway, if for some reason you had the subtitles on last night when watching the events unfold at St James’ Park, you may have seen this…

‘And for the Reds against the black and white scum, he boasts five goals.’

Yep, that’s the subtitles referring to Newcastle as ‘the black and white scum’. This story was originally reported in the Daily Mail who have contacted the BBC for comment.

The subtitles were used to for the following commentary by Guy Mowbray:

‘Sturridge has scored in all four of his previous Premier League starts at Newcastle. For the Reds against the team in black and white, he boasts five goals in five appearances,’ he said.

Maybe whoever was responsible is a Sunderland supporter…

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