He made a mistake.’
Son Heung-min has revealed that Spurs teammate Rodrigo Bentancur has apologised for making a racist remark.
Bentancur claimed that all South Koreans “look the same” during an interview with Uruguayan TV earlier this week, with Kick it Out confirming they had received a “significant number” of complaints regarding Bentancur’s comments.
Spurs have said that they have been “providing assistance” while Son himself has said the 26-year-old has issued an apology.
A statement from the club on X said:
“We fully support that our captain Sonny feels that he can draw a line under the incident and that the team can focus on the new season ahead. We are extremely proud of our diverse, global fanbase and playing squads.
“Discrimination of any kind has no place at our Club, within our game or within wider society.”
“I’ve spoken with Lolo [Bentancur]. He made a mistake, he knows this and has apologised.
“Lolo would not mean to ever intentionally say something offensive. We are brothers and nothing has changed at all.
“We’re past this, we’re united, and we will be back together in pre-season to fight for our club as one.”
Bentancur previously posted: “Sonny brother! I apologise to you for what happened, it was just a very bad joke.”
Gary Lineker has said he will apologise to Frank Lampard after a brutal joke he made about his hairline went viral.
Lineker and Lampard both presented the BBC’s coverage of Germany’s win against Hungary together.
During the coverage Lineker went on to explain that screen behind the studio blocked out interruptions to the broadcast from the public, to which Lampard joked that if it was gone, people would only see the back of his head.
“They’d see my head! They wouldn’t turn up for that,” Lampard said.
In true Lineker style he jokingly responded: “No, you’re right, nobody wants to see the back of your head these days, that’s for sure.”
Lampard turned from delight to despair with his famous Lampardian transition but when quizzed about it on his Rest of Football podcast, Lineker said he owes the Chelsea legend an apology.
He said: “Obviously Frank’s slightly thinning, I’m slightly thinning, and I actually meant it about everyone. But when it came out, it came out a bit wrong. And you know Frank does that thing where he smiles, and then he suddenly doesn’t smile?
“Frank’s great fun, he won’t mind. I must admit, when I got back to the hotel I saw it on social media and thought, ‘Oh you f*****g idiot.’
“I felt really bad, I’ll have to apologise. I will apologise because it wasn’t deliberate but I get how funny it was. Those things happen on live TV.”
permanent departure from Hotspur Way as he is at the centre of discussions over a summer switch to Genoa after a productive loan spell with the Serie A outfit during the second half of the 2023/24 campaign, GMS sources have revealed.
Spurs boss Ange Postecoglou has been busy since his first season at the helm came to an end last month as he has wasted no time in tying up a fresh loan deal for Timo Werner, which includes an £8.5million option to buy the former Chelsea striker from German outfit RB Leipzig.
Swedish teenager Lucas Bergvall will also link up with his new teammates in the coming weeks after completing his switch from Djurgardens, having snubbed interest from Barcelona during the early stages of the year, but chairman Daniel Levy and technical director Johan Lange are locked in conversations over Spence’s future.
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