Sky Sports has today issued an apology after a ‘comedy’ sketch mocked the appearance of Nottingham Forest manager Steve Cooper.
A sketch on the broadcaster’s Fantasy Football show took viewers inside the Forest dressing room for the signing of Serge Aurier.
In it, presenter Elis James appeared to have significantly altered his face, with one eye almost closed.
The show, a revival of the Frank Skinner and David Baddiel smash from the 1990s, made its reappearance following an 18-year break this year and is shown on the Sky Max channel.
Playing Cooper and poking fun at Forest’s extensive summer business, which saw them add more than 20 new faces, James hands Aurier a shirt with the number 4,345 in a densely-populated dressing room.
Matt Lucas then appears as Luciano Pavarotti, in a not-so-subtle dig at Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis.
Forest declined to comment when approached by MailOnline
Sky Sports confirmed to the website an apology had been made.
Really schoolboy humour, would they be allowed to extract the urine out of Jake Daniels and Patrick Vieira— I think not. Poor taste at best.
I’m not happy about this at all I think I’m going to call the police