BBC Sport's chief football writer Phil McNulty was forced to apologise after appearing to use a derogatory term to describe Liverpool players on social media on Wednesday night.
'Absolute ****s' on social media,' McNulty allegedly wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, in response to a clip of Curtis Jones' equaliser against Fulham in the first leg of the Carabao Cup posted by Mail Sport.
McNulty subsequently revealed his account had been hacked.
BBC Sport's chief football writer Phil McNulty was forced to apologise after appearing to use a derogatory term to describe Liverpool players on social media
'Can confidently say my account has been hacked there,' he tweeted 10 minutes after the initial post.