Sports reporting can be difficult. You have to get things right. Fortunately I've yet to make any real howlers. But at least if the worst happened, and I did, I know that in print there is still (for now) a line of defence thanks to the beloved sub-editors.
Broadcasting is much harder as there is no line of defence. One can only wonder how Carrie Davis feels this morning.
Ms Davis works on the Chris Moyles Show on Radio 1 as a sports reader and covers games for Final Score on Saturdays.
She was at the Don Valley Stadium yesterday to cover Rotherham against my team Wycombe. On 65 minutes they came to her where she announced that Simon Church had scored his first goal for the Blues following fine work by Tommy Doherty in the build up.
Her final report said Wycombe had won 1-0, the BBC confirmed the result as 1-0 and Final Score even had Wycombe top of League Two.
Only Church's "goal" was ruled out for offside. The match finished goalless and Darlington leapfrogged Bucks' finest on goal difference.
Ms Davis is probably asking herself over and over again how she can make the mistake of getting absolutely everything wrong. She surely should have realised her original mistake and corrected it before full time. I cannot work it out.
One thing's for sure: this incident should replace Carrie Davis' most embarrasing moment of falling over drunk whilst being sick on the M40. One hopes she wasn't driving at the time.
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