Mark Lawrenson may have just endured his biggest TV fail to date.
That's not a statement we make lightly; many of you will remember the time that the ex-Liverpool player-turned-pundit-and-quite-
rubbish-score-predictor did this on Football Focus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=257O7TFQRzs
And then there was that
Match of the Day analysis where he accidentally referred to Everton's Steven Pienaar as Steven "Penis" (skip to just before the 20-second mark).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZjy_my11g4
But neither of those incidents can hold a candle to this slip-up. Lawrenson was appearing on a Celebrity edition of
Pointless, doubling up with Dan Walker on the podium.
It was Lawro's turn to answer a question about countries that begin with the letter 'A', and he thought he'd played a blinder when he put forward "Alaska" as his guess. It might well have been a pointless answer, were it not for the fact that Alaska is a U.S state, and definitely not a country.
https://twitter.com/101greatgoals/status/734035453955969024
Poor old Lawro looked shellshocked when his answer was revealed to be incorrect. In fairness it's probably a mistake that a lot of people make, but the reaction of his fellow contestants (particularly Mark "Chappers" Chapman's) says it all.
If you re-watch the clip you can see just how much self-control host Alexander Armstrong had not to visibly double-take when Lawrenson made his guess.
Here's how the geographical gaffe went down on social media.
https://twitter.com/MarcIles/status/734025670339219457
https://twitter.com/donaldsteele58/status/734033137706143744
https://twitter.com/whoaskedya/status/734025871112167425
https://twitter.com/itsmr0/status/734025667319365633
Oh dear.
