The ECU agreed this fell below the required standards of accuracy.  The BBC’s Editorial Guidelines say we should  be “open in acknowledging mistakes when they are made” and it was therefore incumbent on the BBC to put matters right as soon as possible.  BBC Sport explained the error was only spotted after transmission but once it had been noticed, action was swiftly taken to edit the version of the programme available on iPlayer.  The ECU noted the action taken, but shared the complainant’s view that, on a matter of such continuing sensitivity, there also needed to be some public acknowledgement of the mistake, most appropriately on the Corrections and Clarifications page of the BBC website.  In the absence of such an acknowledgement the ECU considered that the issue of complaint had not been entirely resolved.
Upheld