Mirror ber om ursäkt
Daily Mirror tvingas ta tillbaka tidigare uppgifter. Den brittiska tabloiden bad på fredagen Andrej Sjevtjenko om ursäkt.
Bakgrunden är de påståenden tidningen spred om osämja i Chelsea och Sjevtjenkos roll i den. Så här skriver Mirror:
”On January 16 we published an article entitled "Shev's a 'Snitch' " that said Andriy Shevchenko's team-mates regarded him as a snitch who was passing details of his dealings with Jose Mourinho back to Roman Abramovich (an allegation we repeated on January 19).
We also reported that the players blamed Shevchenko for the row between Abramovich and Mourinho. As a consequence we said his team-mates could not trust him and this was affecting team morale.
We also claimed on January 17 that Shevchenko had exacerbated his rift with Mourinho by asking Abramovich to replace Mourinho with AC Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti.
We now accept that these allegations are untrue and we apologise to Andriy Shevchenko for any distress caused by their publication.”
Någon förklaring till ursäkten lämnas inte, men hot om stämning kan ses som en rimlig sådan. Som alltid i sådana här fall så är notisen stor som ett frimärke jämfört med de välfyllda sidor med "skandalen" tidningen sålde lösex på.
