Boro-baiting Arsenal fan Piers Morgan today appeared on national radio extolling the virtues of good grammar and spelling.
Yes, the same Piers Morgan who tweeted “Middlesbrough” as “Middlesborough.”
Earlier this week, after Boro were drawn at Arsenal in the FA Cup fifth round, the former News of the World and Daily Mirror editor tweeted to his 4.35 million followers: “BREAKING NEWS: Middlesborough knocked out of FA Cup. Congrats on a great run.”
Almost instantly, outraged Boro fans pointed out his mistake, prompting him to quickly delete the offending tweet.
In a follow-up jibe, he tweeted: “Yes, I know I spelled Middlesbrough wrong. But it SHOULD be spelled the way I spelled it. #Middlesborough”.”
Yes, that’s what he tweeted: “I know I spelled Middlesbrough wrong.” But when he appeared on BBC Radio 5 live today in a debate about good grammar and spelling, it appears his memory briefly failed him.
Talking about the “onslaught of social media” and the sloppy use of language he thinks it encourages, he said: “There is no excuse. My own tweets, and obviously I tweet quite a lot, are always impeccably spelled and perfect grammar and that is how it should be.”
“Impeccably spelled” - Middlesborough.
During the interview, Morgan also slated Lord Sugar’s tweets - “he literally can barely spell his name” - and asked: “Why have a language when you are going to encourage people to be woefully disobedient?”
In response, a tweet from @wktkeeper pointed out: “ha ha you can’t even spell Middlesbrough right.”
But the forthright former Britain’s Got Talent judge was having none of it.
He replied: “No, you lot spell it wrong.”
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