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Leicester Tigers head coach Geoff Parling after the Gallagher Prem match at Villa Park, Birmingham. Photo: Bradley Collyer\/PA Wire<\/p>\n
Leicester Tigers head coach Geoff Parling booted TNT Sports and Craig Doyle off the pitch before the Slater Cup match against Gloucester at Villa Park.<\/p>\n
TNT Sports host Doyle had challenged Liam MacDevitt, a former footballer and member of the TNT Sports production team, to kick towards the posts during the warm-ups at Villa Park when Parling marched across.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s not on. That\u2019s f—ing not on. Get off the pitch,\u201d Parling said to Doyle before pushing the Irish presenter. Doyle backed away and apologised to viewers for the language. \u201cGeoff\u2019s not happy about that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
MacDevitt had been challenged to successfully kick a conversion from the tee as part of an \u201cinitiation\u201d into the TNT Sports team. \u201cUsually it’s a song or you’ve got to down something disgusting,\u201d Doyle said. \u201cYou’re going to kick this ball.\u201d<\/p>\n
MacDevitt kicked wide of the posts, with the ball landing near to where the Leicester players were warming up. When Parling walked over to the pair, Doyle asked the Leicester boss: \u201cWould you sign him Geoff?\u201d<\/p>\n
But the former England international was not amused, with Doyle also saying he was \u201cunderstandably upset\u201d as they were marched off the pitch.<\/p>\n
The incident took place before Leicester convincingly beat Gloucester 36-17 to retain the Slater Cup, with the fixture named in honour of former Gloucester and Leicester lock Ed Slater following his diagnosis with motor neurone disease in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leicester Tigers head coach Geoff Parling after the Gallagher Prem match at Villa Park, Birmingham. Photo: Bradley Collyer\/PA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":370296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,898,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-370295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-latest-news-ticker","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370295","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=370295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/370296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}