Leicester Tigers hooker Tom Youngs called ‘prostitute’ by US website

A US news website wrongly substituted a rugby position during a headline to label Leicester Tigers hooker Tom Youngs a “prostitute”.

The unfortunate error was made by Insider Voice during a story about the player facing disciplinary action.

Another mistake within the article saw 34-year-old Youngs’s name switched to “the youth”.

It is not known how the wording blunders happened and therefore the mistakes have yet to be corrected.

image captionThe article confused the meaning of ‘hooker’ which is additionally a player’s position in rugby

A hooker in rugby is during a llone amongstone in every of”> one among the forwards in a team, playing within the front row during a scrum.

The name derives from their role of “hooking” the ball back with the foot.

Rugby fans are poking fun at the news site’s blunder on social media since it had been published last week.

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Many acknowledged it had been not the primary time the web site had struggled with sporting terms in its articles.

A few weeks ago, a slang expression for prostitute featured during a story about Bath hooker Ross Batty retiring.

Tigers’ captain Youngs faces an independent disciplinary panel on Thursday after tempers flared during the loss at Bristol.

He was charged by the rugby Union (RFU) with “conduct prejudicial to the interests of the union and therefore the game”.