Video: Another day, another w**ker hand gesture row on BT Sport

Just a day after David Ginola landed himself in hot water, Raphael Honigstein mimed the old five-finger shuffle, and was booted off a show on BT Sport.

Anyone who reads the Guardian, or who listens to their consistently excellent podcast Football Weekly, will know that Raphael Honigstein is a class act. The German football writer is clever, funny and very knowledgeable on all things Bundesliga and beyond. In recent times those skills have also been transferred to TV, as he began to appear as a pundit on ESPN UK, and continued on to their new incarnation, BT Sport. But we fear that Rafa’s time may be up after he was kicked off a show on the channel last night. You might recall the kerfuffle caused when David Ginola made a wanker hand gesture at Jake Humphrey during their coverage of the Newcastle/Liverpool match on Saturday. BT apologised afterwards and Ginola stayed on air when the cameras returned but Honigstein repeated the trick yesterday on the channel’s BT Sport Sunday show and he got kicked straight off the programme. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-os-cflf4k On Twitter afterwards Honigstein claimed he thought it was just a rehearsal and not live. We hope BT give him a second chance is he is an excellent pundit.

@RobStewart_ @btsport I'm genuinely sorry. I thought we are still in rehearsal. #stupid — Raphael Honigstein (@honigstein) October 20, 2013