BBC reporter off message on S4C

BBC Breakfast reporter Phil Lavelle may be feeling somewhat cystuddiedig this morning – that's Welsh for "contrite". Earlier today he tweeted about the BBC taking on funding for S4C: "Great news the BBC is to pick up the tab for a pointless, rubbish, minority Welsh-speaking channel which will prob mean job losses #genius." Ouch. Cue a stream of angry tweets from Welsh viewers. A couple of hours later Lavelle backpedalled in a TwitLonger beginning: "Right – let's put this to bed. I concede my comments about S4C being 'pointless' and 'rubbish' were the wrong words ... " More abuse. Lavelle, by now sounding a tad flustered, tried again: "Regarding my S4C tweets, before.. I am truly sorry if my comments have caused offence. I accept that they were ill-judged and I..." "...should not have made them." Monkey wonders if the fact that Lavelle is from Liverpool has anything to do with his Welsh ire?