BBC presenter apologises for 'offending anybody' before Poland vs Netherlands Euro 2024 clash

BBC presenter Mark Chapman apologised for some of the pre-match conversation before Poland and Holland kicked off Sunday's action. In the third day of the tournament, Virgil van Dijk and Robert Lewandowski (on the bench due to fitness worries) were getting their journey started.

However, with former Swansea defender Ashley Williams part of the punditry team - alongside two-time West Ham manager David Moyes - some of the talk got sidetracked. Speaking shortly before the match got underway, Williams analysed the chances of the Netherlands.

"I think if you are in the Netherlands team you looked at Germany and they made a statement, Italy did, Spain did," he said. "You have to go and do that now."

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Williams then added, referring to Wales' defeat to Poland in a play-off for a place in Euro 2024 back in March: "Let's not go and count Poland out because you must be a good team to beat the Welsh so they must have something about them if they beat Wales." In the background, Chapman could be heard laughing to himself, which brought Williams to respond.

"I don't know why you are laughing," he said. The presenter interjected: "I am not laughing, I am just surprised that Wales has played such a part in our build-up and I apologise if we have offended anybody in Wales for that."

In reference, presumably, to Wales' two defeats to the Dutch in the Nations League in 2022, Williams had jokingly brought up the side he represented 86 times as a player. In 2016 he helped Chris Colemnan's team reach the semi-finals of the Euros in France.