Early highlights of the European Championships – Romania’s heart, Dimitri Payet’s late winner and Slaven Bilic’s absolute disregard for the most basic rules of TV appearances.
Bilic appeared as a pundit on ITV’s panel for the opening game of Euro 2016, presumably to gush about Payet’s brilliance for West Ham, and it didn’t go exactly to plan.
At half-time of France vs. Romania , the Hammers boss spoke as though he was chatting to his pals down the pub as he dropped a completely unnecessary “fuck me,” live on air.
Hang on a minute did Slavan Bilic just say “f*ck me” on TV? ? #EURO2016 #itvsport @ITVSport pic.twitter.com/syO4SEkgbh
— Ryan Arnold (@RyanArnoldUK) June 10, 2016
The lack of reaction from fellow pundits Lee Dixon and Emmanuel Petit would lead you to believe that an F-bomb hadn’t been dropped but Bilic’s glance down afterwards all but confirmed his hilarious guilt.
It wasn’t the only memorable takeaway from Bilic’s appearance as the former Croatia international actually referenced the fact that Twitter was awash with jokes about his “robot legs” – an optical illusion stemming from Bilic’s placement in the centre of the panel.
#isitok that Slaven Bilic has taken the Euros a bit too seriously,replacing his legs with Eiffel tower prosthetics? pic.twitter.com/EmfHjA6tI3
— Georgie Lewis-Woodhouse (@GeorgieHaines) June 10, 2016
Slaven Bilic admits to @itvfootball viewers that he does indeed have robot legs #EURO2016 #itv #whufc #cro #eng #fra pic.twitter.com/8G0YkpgO3B
— Alex Kunawicz (@AlexKunawicz) June 10, 2016
The man is punditry gold!
