Match of the Day host Gary Lineker has teased Danny Murphy again just days after the duo were on air together when the BBC were the target of a sex noise prank.
Lineker and Murphy, alongside Paul Ince, were hosting coverage of an FA Cup third round replay between Liverpool and Wolves earlier this week when loud moaning and groaning could be heard during the broadcast in the build-up to the match.
After quipping that Murphy was to blame for the incident, Lineker revealed midway through the first-half that the studio crew had found a phone that had been hidden at the back of the set at Molineux, with a YouTuber claiming credit for the porn prank soon after.
Lineker and Murphy were both on Match of the Day duty on Saturday night just days after the incident - and Lineker couldn't help himself from making another couple of gags at Murphy's expense.
Speaking at the start of the show, he teased: "Let's hope we're not rudely interrupted," before turning to Murphy and quipping: "Danny Murphy have you turned your phone off?"
After Murphy laughed the jokes off and confirmed his phone was off, Lineker squeezed one more line into his opening monologue by saying: "There have been plenty of moans and groans this week...from West Ham and Everton fans," ahead of the highlights of the clash between the two Premier League strugglers.
Lineker's cheeky jokes on Saturday night came just days after Murphy admitted that he became paranoid that he really was to blame for the embarrassing mishap, which left the nation in hysterics after going viral.
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“It was quite funny at first,” former Liverpool midfielder Murphy told talkSPORT. “Initially, because it was so loud in the studio and it was, obviously, very off-putting. We thought maybe it was coming out the tannoy and that the whole stadium was getting it.
“Then we realised that it was just us, so we were thinking ‘someone has got us here’. And then, of course as you know be seeing it, every time we came back to the studio to speak... it would start again.
“The problem was, I couldn’t really hear what Gary was saying, Gary couldn’t hear what I was saying, Incey [Paul Ince] couldn’t hear [either]. It became tedious after about five minutes."
"At that point I wasn't actually sure it wasn't me," Murphy joked when asked by presenter Jim White about Alan Shearer suggesting the ex-midfielder's own phone was responsible. "The thing was, I got paranoid because Gary said it as well, so I thought 'better check my phone'. Luckily it was already turned off so I thought 'it can't be me'."
