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01st Jul 2016

Piers Morgan is taking some heat for his comments on footballers and the Somme

Carl Kinsella

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Today is the centenary of the Battle of the Somme, a World War I battle in which over a million men were wounded or killed.

Many are paying their respects to the dead on its hundred-year anniversary, and posting war-poetry that serves as an always-timely reminder of the horrors of military conflict.

Piers Morgan, however, has outraged many with a remark on Twitter that the young men in England’s football team should have ‘gone to the Somme’ (hashtagging the word ‘Somme’) to ‘learn what representing your country really means.’

Obviously, people reacted very poorly to the incendiary remark, but Morgan claims he’s being misunderstood – and that he was in fact talking about the memorial.

We’re not sure which of the two sentiments he really meant, but we can’t say we’d be shocked if he really did mean the former. Plenty of Twitter users read it that way, anyway.