Roberts offered an unprompted status report on the four healthy starters.

Guardiola addressed the hearing unprompted while answering a question about the tendency of people to overly criticise isolated bad performances.

“To add to the heartbreak, the unprompted racially driven attacks on social media are wrong and extremely hurtful,” said Chiles.

"To add to the heartbreak, the unprompted racially driven attacks on social media are wrong and extremely hurtful," she said in a statement posted to X on Thursday.

One focus group conducted by the polling group More in Common on Thursday night reported the issue was raised unprompted by members of the public thinking about who to choose.