Manchester City have banned BBC reporter Dan Roan following claims from Patrick Vieira that he distorted the club’s Football Development Executive words in a recent interview.
While representing Football Against Hunger, a campaign to tackle starvation in Africa, at the GMEX Convention Centre on Wednesday afternoon, the former midfielder was questioned regarding City’s title run-in and the threat of rivals Manchester United.
The resulting article quotes Vieira as claiming United get favourable attention from referees, but the ex-Arsenal player has posted an immediate rebuttal, insisting that his words had been taken out of context.
The reporter has now been banned from all “media activity” involving City.
Speaking to the club’s official website, Vieira said: “I am very angry with Dan Roan. I feel he has misrepresented me. I made it clear in the interview twice that I wanted to avoid criticising United and even stated that I didn’t watch the United game against Fulham and had not seen the incident to which the reporter referred.
“That part of the interview was ignored and my comments were taken completely out of context. I called the reporter twice to ask for a retraction and an apology which has not come. I feel Dan Roan and the BBC have shown a complete lack of respect for me, the ‘Football Against Hunger’ charity and Manchester City Football Club.”
Chief Communications Officer, Vicky Kloss, added: “Despite the Charity arranging the interview with Dan Roan for the purposes of promoting the Football Against Hunger campaign, the reporter pursued a leading and aggressive line of questioning, through which Patrick was very careful to tread a diplomatic path.
“A misrepresentative article by Dan Roan appeared on the BBC’s website a short time later which omitted significant comments of clarification and took the interview completely out of context.
"Manchester City promotes a positive and welcoming approach to media outlets, however it is felt, in the absence of any correction or apology that there is no option but to issue an immediate ban to Dan Roan from future media activity.”
The BBC have as yet refused to remove the interview from their website.
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