Man U v Bournemouth abandoned (1 Viewer)

stupot07 · May 15, 2016

Due to a suspect package being found

Nick · May 15, 2016

Was just about to post this, hopefully just a hoax and it can be sorted! Or somebody has just left their backpack.

Is the Man Utd team bus actually there yet anyway?

Must be quite bad if it is fully abandoned for today and not just delated?

Sky_Blue_Daz · May 15, 2016

Can't mess around in those circumstances though

stupot07 · May 15, 2016

shocking whether it's a hoax or not.

ccfc92 · May 15, 2016

Just glad it's been evacuated before anyone has been hurt.

Will be interesting to see the outcome, must be something if they've abandoned the game. Just hope nothing happens outside the stadium

chiefdave · May 15, 2016

It's Rooneys secret stash of KFC.

Better same than sorry with these sort of things. Guess they'll try and play it in the week now. They won't want to leave it too long. Hopefully something can be sorted out for the Bournemouth fans who travelled today.

chiefdave · May 15, 2016

ccfc92 said:
must be something if they've abandoned the game.

Was watching a documentary on the tube the other day and when someone reports a suspicious package a member of staff goes and checks it out. So if they've got to the stage of evacuating and then calling the match off there has to be a genuine concern.

sw88 · May 15, 2016

Man U game abandoned

Due to suspect package being found at OT.

Hope if it's a wind up (prefer it to be a wind up that real tbf!) the offenders get dealt with properly!

Silence_Is_The_Enemy · May 15, 2016

If it's legit it's got IRA wrote all over it after they raised their threat level in the week you don't tend to find an isis package as they wear them

SkyBlue_Bear83 · May 15, 2016

Controlled explosion carried out

Nick · May 15, 2016

Was there actually a bomb then?

ccfc92 · May 15, 2016

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

SkyBlue_Bear83 · May 15, 2016

Nick said:
Was there actually a bomb then?

Don't think its been confirmed either way, but they were clearly worried enough that they were taking no chances with it. They are continuing to call it a suspect package still.

Gint11 · May 15, 2016

Well done to Man Utd and staff. Got everyone out without panic and rightly so. Can't not take these kings seriously. Chilling.

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chiefdave · May 15, 2016

From what's been said there wasn't a bomb but whatever they found had been made to look like a very realistic bomb.

SkyBlue_Bear83 · May 15, 2016

chiefdave said:
From what's been said there wasn't a bomb but whatever they found had been made to look like a very realistic bomb.

Yes being described now as an incredibly lifelike explosion device, but not actually a bomb. Basically a dummy explosive

Nick · May 15, 2016

Ah so just somebody trying to scare

chiefdave · May 15, 2016

There has to be a fair bit of CCTV footage. Hopefully they can find who it was.

sw88 · May 15, 2016

Crazy that's able to happen! Then again, guess it must have been very apparent as there must be loads that just gets left on the floor at OT since they don't have bins

clint van damme · May 15, 2016

I'm sure years ago at HR there'd been reports of a bomb and they asked everyone to look under their seats!

Jack Griffin · May 15, 2016

Question is, what was the motivation for leaving the dummy device?

Silence_Is_The_Enemy · May 15, 2016

Few years back West Midlands police left a dummy device inside a box at wolves ground after an exercise on the Thursday been as they have been doing very public terror threat drills in the Trafford centre this week it's pretty likely this could be a police device that they have left there after a drill at Old Trafford

clint van damme · May 15, 2016

Silence_Is_The_Enemy said:
Few years back West Midlands police left a dummy device inside a box at wolves ground after an exercise on the Thursday been as they have been doing very public terror threat drills in the Trafford centre this week it's pretty likely this could be a police device that they have left there after a drill at Old Trafford

are you saying this package was left there by the police and as a consequence of its discovery they cancelled the game?

chiefdave · May 15, 2016

clint van damme said:
are you saying this package was left there by the police and as a consequence of its discovery they cancelled the game?

If it was left by the police wouldn't they realise as soon as someone reported it?

sw88 · May 15, 2016

Silence_Is_The_Enemy said:
Few years back West Midlands police left a dummy device inside a box at wolves ground after an exercise on the Thursday been as they have been doing very public terror threat drills in the Trafford centre this week it's pretty likely this could be a police device that they have left there after a drill at Old Trafford

So in the space of a couple of hours you have mentioned that it is either IRA, and now "pretty likely" the Police? Really?

Talk about making assumptions without foundation!

clint van damme · May 15, 2016

chiefdave said:
If it was left by the police wouldn't they realise as soon as someone reported it?

that's what I thought.

sw88 · May 15, 2016

chiefdave said:
If it was left by the police wouldn't they realise as soon as someone reported it?

Absolutely!

If I were the FA id be re-arranging the fixture and playing it behind closed doors with United refunding at the ticket money back to the fans, just incase!

chiefdave · May 15, 2016

Will be played Tuesday night now. Imagine it will be tricky for the Bournemouth fans to arrange to get back up for the game.

Terry Gibson's perm · May 15, 2016

Lucky it is meaningless game, imagine if it wasn't and Sunderland were involved they would still be talking about it in 50 years time.

clint van damme · May 15, 2016

Terry Gibson's perm said:
Lucky it is meaningless game, imagine if it wasn't and Sunderland were involved they would still be talking about it in 50 years time.

though they seem keen to sweep the fact that earlier in the season they played a self confessed paedophile under the carpet.

Jack Griffin · May 15, 2016

FFS, it boils down to a incompetent security company..

"Suspicious item discovered at Old Trafford was training device"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36297390

Silence_Is_The_Enemy said:
Few years back West Midlands police left a dummy device inside a box at wolves ground after an exercise on the Thursday been as they have been doing very public terror threat drills in the Trafford centre this week it's pretty likely this could be a police device that they have left there after a drill at Old Trafford

Spot on mate, except it wasn't plod that left it.

Nick · May 15, 2016

I wonder if somebody is going to get sued.

Caused a whole lot of trouble

pipkin73 · May 15, 2016

sw88 said:
So in the space of a couple of hours you have mentioned that it is either IRA, and now "pretty likely" the Police? Really?

Talk about making assumptions without foundation!

http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/36297390

SkyBlue_Bear83 · May 15, 2016

Nick said:
I wonder if somebody is going to get sued.

Caused a whole lot of trouble

Surely be massive consequences, wouldn't be surprised if Manchester United and the FA take legal action against the private company who fucked up.

chiefdave · May 15, 2016

Someone will be looking for a new job tomorrow!

The Bournemouth supporters should sue the company for the money they've lost. Not a short trip and most of them probably won't be able to make it again Tuesday night.

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