Chelsea Women’s star Erin Cuthbert has ruthlessly called out an “embarrassing” news story linking players’ names to sex noises in the headline.
The 23-year-old Scottish midfielder scored in the second half of Chelsea Women’s 4-2 win over West Ham Women in the quarter-final of the Women’s League Cup.
And Cuthbert’s teammate Pernille Harder scored a sensational hat-trick, with Emma Hayes’s women set to face Manchester United Women in the semi-finals next month.
The Sun, which has since pulled the news report from its website, published an ‘exclusive’ story on Chelsea’s win with the following headline: “Cuthbert Harder! Chelsea scorers sound like posh people having sex.”
The title for the aforementioned piece came after BBC Sport’s match report listed the scorers in name order rather than separating them and adding the times in which they scored.
BBC Sport has since amended the goalscorer order similar to its match reports for men’s football, with Cuthbert and Harder now separated by a comma and the times for when they scored.
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The Sun’s story included one fan comparing the “run of surnames to an upper-class woman ‘asking her servant for a good time.’”
The article came under further fire from fans for the choice of words that author Stephen Moyes used in describing the recap of the League Cup clash.
“Chelsea banged them in at West Ham during their victory in the quarter-final of the FA Women's League Cup on Wednesday,” he wrote.
Cuthbert took to Twitter and launched a scathing attack on The Sun’s article, with Chelsea midfielder calling it “extremely disturbing.”
The 23-year-old Scotland Women international pulled no punches by claiming that she ‘wished’ match reports and women’s football was reported on with the “same level of enthusiasm.”
Cuthbert tweeted to her 42.2k followers: “To actually run with a story like this is extremely disturbing and embarrassing.
“Wish people reported on the actual match reports and women’s football with the same level of enthusiasm.”
The Sun’s story went viral on social media and was met with fierce backlash from Twitter users, with the article also appearing on BBC Breakfast on Saturday.
However, former Good Morning Britain co-presenter Piers Morgan hit out at the “silly fuss” caused by the “funny” story and/or headline.
“Can’t believe all the silly fuss over this funny story/headline,” he tweeted.
“BBC Breakfast just did [a] lengthy segment featuring outraged women erupting with rage. Calm down ladies, it’s called HUMOUR.
“This kind of stuff happens to male players all the time. Get over yourselves, honestly.”
SPORTbible reached out to The Sun for comment and will update this story should we hear back.
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Adnan Riaz