The incident occurred on BBC Radio 5 Live on a Premier League show, where Cole works as a football expert. In the discussion before the meeting of Souček et al. with Pepa Guardiola’s team called the possible loss of the Hammers a Holocaust.
“You have to have a little respect for the City, or they’ll take you and the Holocaust, and you don’t want to,” said the former Chelsea or West Ham player, causing a stir. match too defensive team.
Dear everyone involved in football,
Nothing that happens on the pitch should be compared to the industrialised mass murder of millions of people.
Joey Barton, you started this.
Carlton Cole, you’re continuing it.
Bloody end it, now. https://t.co/fgSecxcGyC
— Jack Mendel ????️ (@Mendelpol) November 28, 2021
Cole later apologized for his statement on the show. “I would like to apologize to the audience for the utterly unacceptable phrase I used before,” he said. However, he did not stop the reaction from the fans.
Carlton Cole speaking on @bbcfivelive just now said that a West Ham loss today would be ‘a holocaust’. An absolutely disgraceful use of words, but well done to the BBC for calling it out and apologising swiftly.
— AW PR (@AWPRCO) November 28, 2021
Fans pointed out that no one in Cole’s studio pointed out the inappropriate expression. “He should be fired, but we know he won’t,” one of them wrote on Twitter. “Absolutely disgusting and unforgivable,” the others said. “He should never show up at the BBC again,” they said.
Others pointed to the timing of the commentary on the beginning of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. The former player also apologized on Twitter directly to some of the discussants.
The match, to which the inappropriate comment related, ended in a truly defeat of Souček et al. se City 1: 2. The hammerhead was not saved even by the alternating Coufal.
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