Sky Sports News Use Made Up Facts About Lincoln Red Imps After Win over Celtic

Sky Sports News suffered a highly embarrassing moment on Wednesday when it referred to made up facts regarding the Lincoln Red Imps, who inflicted a shock 1-0 UEFA Champions League qualifier defeat on Celtic on Tuesday in what was Brendan Rodgers' first game in charge.

The embarrassing result prompted Twitter user @GeorgeWeahsCousin to mock a stats chart that claimed the Red Imps manager was hired after winning a competition and that the team can't train on Tuesdays as their pitch is used by a local metal detecting society.

Warning: the following tweets contain some NSFW language.

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Fucking Hell Celtic pic.twitter.com/JDjmECrcaT

— GeorgeWeahsCousin (@WeahsCousin) July 12, 2016"

The made up facts were then used by Sky Sports News in an interview with former Celtic player Andy Walker.

That led to much amusement online, with viewers ridiculing the channel for its error:

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Sky Sports News actually believed that photoshopped image of the Lincoln Red Imps statistics 😂😂😂

— Kieran Polland (@Kieran_Polland) July 13, 2016"

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Sky Sports News journalism at its finest. Made up facts for Twitter fun being used on @SkySportsNewsHQ as truth https://t.co/w3gakQB4SQ

— Colm (@cohcfc) July 13, 2016"

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Sky Sports News is dead. https://t.co/Csbj1lzsV0

— Will (@Will_H86) July 13, 2016"

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@scodawg77 @WeahsCousin I know it's fake, but it's incredible how sky sports news believed it

— Mike (@mike_mufc94) July 13, 2016"

And while those facts may have been made up, it appears one of Celtic's conquerors does work for a taxi firm when he's not playing football:

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Asked guy who booked me taxi at stadium if he's going to @celticfc game tmw. "Yes, I'm a @LincolnRedImps player" pic.twitter.com/VkC8PU1H9P

— Ronnie Esplin (@RonnieEsplin) July 11, 2016"

At least we hope that's true anyway...

[Twitter]