Middlesbrough were left furious after their trip to Burnley for their Championship clash saw their team’s kit destroyed. Kitmen at the Teesside outfit were staggered to see green stains all over their previously pristine white shirts and shorts following the final whistle of the 1-1 draw at Turf Moor last week and club officials quickly sought an explanation.It transpired that the culprit was a chemical put down by the Lancashire side to treat a nematode, or roundworm, problem on the playing surface, which contained a pigment which turned the visitors’ all-white outfit green. An industrial stain remover failed to do the trick when the visitors returned home, with flabbergasted Boro officials making the incident known to the EFL and now thought to be considering a request for compensation. Such was the extent of the damage that boots and even goalkeeper gloves were impacted. ‘I’ve never seen anything like it,’ explained one insider.Burnley’s next opponents at Turf Moor? Derby County… Aidan Morris celebrates Boro’s 23rd minute goal in a pristine white kit… which appears to have been stained a shade of green by the time he applauds fans off at the end of the 1-1 drawRevealed: BBC didn’t even make offer to televise dramatic Commonwealths Contrary to reports last week that BBC Sport offered a paltry £900,000 to televise this summer’s Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games, Inside Sport understands the corporation failed to table any kind of official monetary offer for the 74-nation multi-sport event that saw Scotland’s Josh Kerr win the Commonwealth Mile, English sprint sensation Amy Hunt run 100m in under 11 seconds and Wales’ Emma Finucane pick up four golds in the velodrome.The revelation may add to the pressure on under-fire BBC Director of Sport Alex Kay-Jelski, who has presided over a series of changes that have proved unpopular with some. There was no daily World Cup preview show and Football Focus and Ski Sunday have been axed, while the use of content creators has drawn criticism.Inside Sport also understands there has been some internal dismay at a decision not to send any reporters from BBC Sport’s website to European away matches featuring English clubs this week.With the BBC safely out of the picture, TNT Sport acquired the Glasgow 2026 UK television rights via a significant financial bid. The Warner Bros Discovery sports channel and their streaming platform HBO Max then broadcast more than 600 hours of live coverage – three times what the BBC broadcast from Birmingham 2022.Other parts of the BBC showed up their TV decision. Amy Hunt landed 100m silver at the Commonwealth Games in GlasgowRadio 5 Live took UK radio rights alongside talkSPORT, and there was extensive coverage across BBC online and social platforms, including TikTok, aimed squarely at the younger audiences the corporation says it is desperate to reach.An estimated 100 BBC personnel were accredited for Glasgow 2026, despite British audiences having no live free-to-air TV option. BBC Sport’s apparent short-sightedness was confirmed when millions tuned in for the European Athletics Championships weeks later.And Glasgow offered far more than the track, including Duncan Scott, Adam Ramsay-Peaty and Tom Dean in the pool and Britain’s best cyclists in the Sir Chris Hoy velodrome, with para events fully integrated into proceedings. All faced stiffer opposition than a European field, with Australia, Jamaica, Canada, South Africa and Nigeria among the 74 nations.The centenary edition of the Commonwealth Games in India is four years away. It remains to be seen if the BBC will atone for what many are viewing as a clear error.League One keen to join promotion expansion League One could be set to follow the Championship’s lead by expanding the play-offs to include another two clubs.Currently those finishing in third to sixth place contest the end-of-season showdown for a spot in the second tier. However, to increase interest and opportunity, officials now want to follow the Championship’s lead and extend that by two teams, giving those who finish in eighth place a shot at promotion.League One representatives on the EFL board have put forward the proposal, with a decision expected in due course.Olympiakos fans not happy with Forest… Colourful Nottingham Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis may have a problem on his hands in his native Greece.A quick look online shows Olympiakos supporters are increasingly angry at what they see as their club becoming a stepping stone for their owner’s Forest project.Olympiakos paid a Greek-record €16million (£13.75m) to sign Colombian midfielder Gustavo Puerta from Racing Santander on deadline day, with the 23-year-old initially tipped to sign for Forest before moving to Olympiakos on loan. Evangelos Marinakis has owned Olympiakos since 2010 and Forest since 2017Colombian media now report that Puerta has been told he will spend one year in Greece before swapping Athens for the bright lights of the Premier League and Forest.Having already seen four players move from Forest to Olympiakos this summer, that has tipped many fans over the edge, with one claiming Marinakis is ‘diminishing Olympiakos’ and another demanding the club be ‘free from these ownership groups and this nonsense’.The discontent comes as Olympiakos’ fortunes have changed drastically since Forest’s promotion – they won 22 Greek titles in 26 years before Forest returned to the Premier League in 2022, but have triumphed just once in the four seasons since.