Gary Lineker and BBC left red-faced as loud sex noise prank plays before Wolves vs Liverpool

BBC coverage for Wolves vs Liverpool in the FA Cup was pranked before kick-off.
Gary Lineker. Picture: BBC iPlayerGary Lineker. Picture: BBC iPlayer
Gary Lineker. Picture: BBC iPlayer

Gary Lineker and the BBC pundit team were left red-faced after being hit by a prank during coverage of Liverpool’s FA Cup clash against Wolves.

A loud noise - which sounded like a woman having sex - could first be heard before the Molineux clash while Lineker, Danny Murphy and Paul Ince were in the studio.

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Lineker then tried to speak to Alan Shearer, who is on co-commentary duty, as the noise played again. Lineker kept his cool, albeit with a smirk, and said: “I don’t know who is making that noise.” Then the host said: “I don’t know who’s making that noise, sending something on someone’s phone.”

Lineker subsequently said to Murphy when the noise could be heard again: “Will you stop making that noise?” Murphy replied: “It’s not me.”

After kick-off, Lineker revealed that a mobile phone had been found taped to a seat in the studio.

He wrote on Twitter: “Well, we found this taped to the back of the set. As sabotage goes it was quite amusing.”

Here’s how people on Twitter have reacted to the incident.

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