Old Trafford Evacuated

[Chris]

Really fortunate that someone spotted it. It could have been a complete disaster otherwise.

Someone from work took the weekend off and flew up to Manchester yesterday for the match today, I imagine he'll be a bit peed off now!! At least someone noticed it before anything serious happened

That is unlucky, but he could have been blown up so I suppose you could say he was very lucky.

[xxMATTGxx]

The latest from Greater Manchester Police:

Bomb disposal experts carried out controlled explosion at Old Trafford on what is described as incredibly lifelike explosive device...

— Greater Manchester Police (@gmpolice) May 15, 2016

Full assessment now concluded and found device wasn’t viable. A full search of the stadium is ongoing. Full update to follow.

— Greater Manchester Police (@gmpolice) May 15, 2016

So looks like while the device they found wasn't actually going to blow up but still looked very lifelike etc. It looks like they made the right call anyway by the sounds of it all.

[AgnesIO]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36297390

Turns out it was a training device left by a private company. No wonder it looked real...

[GoldenMerc]

Surely that's super illegal doing that


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[abc]

So these private companies don't think "hmmm we are missing a fake bomb... shall we alert someone?" ... "na, just let it be. We will know it's been found when there is breaking news that the stadium has a bomb scare and they evacuate 70k people, easier that way"

Idiots.

[Kyle]

probably just saying it's a training device so people panic less about actual bombs

[Lucy]

Would of sucked to of been this guy, until the club gave him a ticket to the FA Cup Final

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-36300280

[scottish]

Would of sucked to of been this guy, until the club gave him a ticket to the FA Cup Final

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-manchester-36300280

He was invited by Man U Supporters Trust not the Club itself

Also worth noting he wasn't really given a ticket to the FA Cup Final as he already had one, and all tickets are allowed into the rematch. His flight was changed so he could watch the rearranged match though.

There was plenty of different examples yesterday though of people coming across the world to see it.

[AgnesIO]

He was invited by Man U Supporters Trust not the Club itself

Also worth noting he wasn't really given a ticket to the FA Cup Final as he already had one, and all tickets are allowed into the rematch. His flight was changed so he could watch the rearranged match though.

There was plenty of different examples yesterday though of people coming across the world to see it.

"And they are arranging a ticket for Moses to watch the team's FA Cup final against Crystal Palace at Wembley next week."

Is that bit wrong, then?

[scottish]

"And they are arranging a ticket for Moses to watch the team's FA Cup final against Crystal Palace at Wembley next week."

Is that bit wrong, then?

Oh, I was under the impression that the game that was abandoned yesterday was the FA Cup Final (I don't care for football), as the rest of that paragraph would indicate.