Just got this:

Thanks for your e-mail regarding the 6 April edition of 'Beswick at Breakfast' on BBC Radio Manchester.

We understand that you felt Allan's comments about Amos Roberts' suspected broken leg were inappropriate.

Allan Beswick is very well known as a Warrington Wolves supporter, who are currently battling with Wigan Warriors for the top spot in the Super League. His comments here were in that context, with rivals Wigan Warriors having scored a very convincing win in their match against Wakefield Trinity Wildcats on 5 April 2010, thus keeping them at the top of the table.

Allan's unique brand of humour is well known to his BBC Radio Manchester listeners who will appreciate that his comments here about both Wigan and their player Amos Roberts were not intended to be taken at all seriously, but were merely humorous comment borne out of frustration at Wigan's excellent result which kept them above Warrington in the table.

His banter with sports presenter Delyth Lloyd on the subject was clearly light-hearted with Allan in reply being jokily called a "naughty man" by Delyth.

Clearly in no way was Allan actually happy that a player suffered an injury - indeed he was genuinely full of praise for Wigan's performance even though it meant his beloved Warrington were denied the top spot as a result of their win.

The sports report also went on to focus on the incident itself in some depth including commentary clips plus a description of the match and a review of the injury incident with an interview with the team's coach describing it fully.

However, we do acknowledge your concerns over his comments and we'd like to assure you that we've registered your complaint on our audience log. This is a daily report of audience feedback that's circulated to many BBC staff, including members of the BBC Executive Board, channel controllers and other senior managers.

The audience logs are seen as important documents that can help shape decisions about future programming and content.

Thanks again for taking the time to contact us.

Regards

BBC Complaints

Clearly a standard response from someone trying to make light of it, whilst not understanding RL at all.

I'm sure we all feel the matter's been taken seriously...

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copy and paste brigade are on the loose i see!

I still think we should all ring in at once one morning and complain live on air to see how he responds.

would anyone on here give a if he had said the same thing about John Wilkin or Kevin Sinfield, doubt it very much, too many people jumping on the bandwagon and whinging for whinging sake

When he had his phone-in show on the old Red Rose, there was a lad who rang him every night 2 or 3 times and just said 'Skimpy duds Alan! Skimpy duds!' and annoyed the hell out of him. Maybe we should reprise that.

how many callers do you think would be able to ring in and sing "ohh w@nky w@nky" before they close the phone lines down all together

what is it with wire fans and taking the internet too seriously?

or what is it with tools like you calling the town and city of Warrington all the time

would you care to point out where i have "called the town and city of warrington"?
how does that even make sense? are there two warringtons?