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Jeff Stelling forced to apologise on air after being duped by 'despicable' message about dead football fan

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Published 10:01 20 Jan 2025 GMT

Jeff Stelling forced to apologise on air after being duped by 'despicable' message about dead football fan

The presenter was tricked by the joke.

Tom Jenkins

Tom Jenkins

Former Soccer Saturday host Jeff Stelling has been forced to apologise after being 'duped' by an online troll during his morning show on talkSPORT.

Stelling was live on air on Sunday morning alongside Ally McCoist, with the pair discussing the previous day's results.

One of the biggest games of the previous day was the all-Welsh clash between Cardiff City and Swansea City, with home side Cardiff running away 3-0 winners.

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This was quite the result for Cardiff as Callum Robinson's double made it their biggest win in the derby fixture for 31 years.

On the show, Stelling was reading out fan verdicts from social media and one message turned out to be a disgusting troll, but neither host realised what had happened.

The post from @Billybrigh20993 wrote: "Morning Jeff and Ally. Please can you shout out all the Cardiff City fans after a very easy win over Swansea town on the weekend? South Wales is blue. Cheers, Terry Coles."

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Stelling read out the message in full, and continued to congratulate Cardiff on their impressive victory, however, fans soon let the radio host know he'd made a mistake.

One fan took to social media to inform the 69-year-old of his mistake, writing: "You have dropped an absolute clanger this morning with your Cardiff City message.

"You may want to look up Terry Coles. Disgusting behavior"

Stelling then swiftly responded: "I apologise as I had no idea. It was a despicable text."

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Terry Coles, aged 42 at the time, was a Swansea fan who was tragically killed in 2000 after being trampled by a police horse.

Cardiff ran away 3-0 winners on Saturday- Getty
Cardiff ran away 3-0 winners on Saturday- Getty

The incident happened prior to a League Two title decider for the Welsh side against Rotherham as chaos broke out between the rival fans.

It was later concluded Coles died of abdominal wounds, and following an inquest which was held three years later, the jury returned a verdict of accidental death.

Featured Image Credit: Sky Sports/Getty

Topics: Jeff Stelling, Cardiff City, Swansea City

Tom Jenkins
Tom Jenkins

Tom Jenkins is a Social Editor and Journalist for SPORTBible. Specialises in Football and F1 but has experience covering a variety of sports such as MMA, Boxing and Cricket. Suffers weekly as an Evertonian.

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