Former Liverpool attacker Patrick Berger has hit out at reports in this morning's press that he was supposed to be on the tragic Germanwings flight that was brought down in the French Alps earlier this week.
The Mirror have quoted an Armenian newspaper which claimed that the 41 year old was set to fly to the country's capital Yerevan from Barcelona a flight which included a stopover in Dusseldorf on May 24th. As we now know that was the flight which, tragically never made it to its final destination.
The British newspaper reported that Berger was due to be on the flight but missed his departure time because of a delay in Spain. The Czech international was supposedly due to fly on to Armenia to appear in a friendly to mark the 60th birthday of Khoren Hovhannisyan, an Armenian footballer.
According to news.am, "the player is in a state of shock and is not going to fly in the near future."
As you may have guessed by now, the story is a complete an utter fabrication. Berger has taken to Twitter in the past hour to hit out at the reports which are in very bad taste considering the real human tragedy that has occurred.
Comments about me changing my flight are all lies! I flew home on Monday Barcelona - Prague as I was supposed to. #classicpapers
— PB (@patrikberger73) March 27, 2015
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