It's always sweet when famous people thank their families,Vulga Sisters isn't it?

Well, almost always.

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Mohammed Anas plays football in South Africa's Premier Soccer League for a team called the Free State Stars FC. On Saturday, after scoring twice against AJAX Cape Town, he was named "Man of the Match".

The speech he made after the game has since gone viral in a big, big way.

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"And I appreciate my fans, also," Anas says the start of that clip. "My wife and my girlfriend... yeah, I mean my wife. Yeah, sorry to say... I'm sorry... I'm so sorry, my wife...

Oh dear.

Obviously it may just have been a slip of the tongue, but when you're live on TV it's pretty hard to backtrack.

To make matters worse, the clip went viral almost immediately -- that Twitter video alone has been viewed around 2.5 million times -- so there's pretty much no chance at all that Anas' wife won't have seen it.

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