Sky Sports issued an apology for comments made by Graeme Souness during Manchester United's 6-1 loss to Tottenham Hotspur.
Souness was critical of the Spurs player Erik Lamela's involvement in the incident which saw Anthony Martial sent off in the first half, after Lamela dropped to the ground after an off-the-ball incident following minimal contact from the Frenchman.
"If Martial is going then Lamela has to go," Souness said. "He raises his hands, Martial lashes out, it's like a tickle across your chops and he's gone down.
"It is pathetic. It's very Latin. If one goes, both have to go. It's pathetic. Is this what the English game is about? We, the Brits, do it differently.
"I've played in a Latin country, I've worked in Latin countries, I know how they see the game. Lamela will sleep well thinking he has done a great piece of work for his team. That is not us."
Sky Sports subsequently apologised to anybody who may have been offended by Souness' comments.
"Now I have to say before we go, earlier in the show we were critical of Erik Lamela's part in Anthony Martial's sending off in the Manchester United Spurs game," said presenter Dave Jones. "We'd like to apologise for any offence that was caused and the stereotyping of the Latin culture."
United boss Ole Gunnar Solskjaer also hit out at Lamela after the club's joint-heaviest loss in the Premier League.
"The red is no excuse," said Solskjaer. "The boy might be having an operation on his throat, though!
"It is a bad reaction from Anthony. But if that (Lamela) was one of my players I'd hang him out to dry going down like that. He shouldn't react like that."
The incident came just two weeks after the broadcaster was forced to apologise over comments made by Patrice Evra about Crystal Palace player Wilfried Zaha.
