Shay Given has issued an apology for using the word ‘Holocaust’ to describe Wilfried Nancy’s spell as Celtic manager.<\/p>\n
Working as a pundit on BBC’s Saturday Final Score programme, the former Republic of Ireland described Nancy’s first week in the job as “an absolute Holocaust”.<\/p>\n
He said: “Nancy took over that week and had an absolute Holocaust in that week and it was just a nightmare from then on, the defeats and Rangers last weekend was the final straw, final nail in the coffin.”<\/p>\n
Presenter Jason Mohammad later apologised for the use of the phrase, saying: “A little earlier you may have heard some inappropriate language so we would like to apologise for any offence caused.”<\/p>\n
Given has since issued his own apology on social media, writing: “On live television this afternoon, I used a word that i didn’t fully understand the meaning of, and certainly won’t ever use again.<\/p>\n
“We all have areas of ignorance in our knowledge, and I hope to use this as an opportunity to become better educated going forward.<\/p>\n
“I am genuinely mortified and apologise unreservedly to everyone offended, and will be donating my fee from today’s show to the Holocaust Educational Trust.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shay Given has issued an apology for using the word ‘Holocaust’ to describe Wilfried Nancy’s spell as Celtic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1113,61,60,2539,5782,5783,112],"class_list":["post-238935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-fai","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-league-of-ireland","tag-local-soccer","tag-premiership","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}