: He may have been entirely correct if he was playing an online fps, but as the BBC denied he even used the word 'raped' it would suggest that the majority of people watching the programme were unaware that Pardew wasn't necessarily the first person to use the word in that context. Therefore he was not correct to use the term, hence the controversy. Anyway, "in the sense that he bested him physically" does explain what Pardew meant by the terminology.