Eddie McGuire felt sick after learning Cynthia Banham had tossed coin before Swans-Adelaide clash

After coming under fire for his comments made on air during Friday night’s AFL coverage, Eddie McGuire was back on the airwaves on Monday morning — where he again apologised for his pre-match gaffe.

Eddie McGuire says he felt “physically ill” at the weekend in the wake of his Friday night commentary gaffe.

Speaking on Monday morning, the Fox Footy commentator and Collingwood president said he deeply regretted his comments criticising the pre-game coin toss made by amputee Cynthia Banham. And he hopes to be able to apologise in person.

“My first thoughts are ‘what have I done to this wonderful person?’” he said during his Triple M breakfast show.

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“I just sat down straight away and composed a letter of apology to Cynthia. My colleagues were able to get her phone number so I could send it to her.”

The Swans had invited their No.1 ticket holder to toss the coin when McGuire seemingly criticised Banham’s toss of the coin.

“I think we should introduce a $5000 fine for anybody who is tossing the coin who can’t do it properly,” McGuire said prior to the Sydney-Adelaide clash.

Cynthia Banham tosses the coin at the Sydney-Adelaide round 2 clash.

He apologised at halftime of the match, but the Sydney Swans weren’t happy, later issuing a statement in which they condemned McGuire for his “lack of empathy, but also ignorance”.

McGuire apologised at the weekend and stood down from his commentary duties.

On Monday he explained he made the comments because he “could not see” who was tossing the coin.

“I didn’t know who was doing the toss ... I wasn’t looking at the monitor and out of the corner of my eye I saw the coin flick out and I went off on a tangent of jocularity and that’s what it was, it was mucking around,” he said.

“It wasn’t having a go at coin tossers, it’s a bit of a thing I have been mucking around with for a little while about the coin toss.

“I had absolutely no visibility whatsoever as to what was going on in Sydney.”

McGuire said he was viewing the Channel 7 feed of the match — which cuts to Fox Footy’s panel when the host broadcaster shows its own on-screen talent —

“I was actually in a parallel universe, I was talking about one thing and the pictures were somewhere else. It was an unfortunate sequence of events, but I own them.”

Eddie McGuire apologises at half time of Friday night’s Sydney-Adelaide clash.

McGuire said he was only made aware Mrs Banham had tossed the coin midway through the first quarter when a producer approached him.

“I would have never made light of a person with a disability. I would never have done that and I’m profoundly sorry,” he said.

“I have apologised unreservedly and at the appropriate time, I hope to get the opportunity to do so personally.

“You get beaten up in the media on these things, but not half as much as you beat yourself up.”

McGuire is expected to return to his commentary role later this week.