A mate of mine went over from Ireland for the game today. Think it might have been his first time going to OT.
OT EVACUATED | Device signed as having been recovered, could NOT be detected by sniffer dogs
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The searches are feck all. Could easily slip through the net. The stewards were clueless today, at least in the East anyway. Glad nobody got hurt but feck me am I pissed off. Can't imagine how the Bournemouth fans are feeling. Safety first I guess.
You seem to be pretty well informed Spoony.
What's the police number in England again lads?
Honestly there is nothing to tell that it's more than a bag left without attention by someone. It happened in my town last year.
112 or 999 (if you are serious)
Yeah, Mike. Let's really open this baby up and turn this into a discussion on free speech and the mechanics of broadcasting. That should take the edge off City scoring in the last minute.
Wonder who spotted the package? A fan or a steward? Also wondering what would've happened if this has been discovered during the match instead of before...
Questions, questions.... the good thing is it sounds like everyone is safe which is most important. I would hate for OT to become the site of a terrorist bombing.
Questions, questions.... the good thing is it sounds like everyone is safe which is most important. I would hate for OT to become the site of a terrorist bombing.
Can't help but worry about the Euros.
Wait so there really is a bomb then? Or is this all still a precautionary response?
I hope City win or draw so we can be put out of our misery.
I don't think we can do that, isn't there precedent that you can't rest too many players? Have to field strong 11 or something
Last game we get attacked by bottles and now we have a bomb planted at old trafford!! LVG creating a proper siege mentality
Didn't go up luckily, but gutted for the lady who took the tickets, she was so excited.
Now it's awkward, as if it's replayed, it'll have to be midweek, and if she can't do it, I'd have a couple of days to re-sort ticket selling, and the whole thing would make the Palace game look well full.
Really hope Swansea can find a winner, to make it worth playing again, as like people say, we'd be below West Ham, and Bournemouth could make up places, so unlikely they'd just sack it off.
Now it's awkward, as if it's replayed, it'll have to be midweek, and if she can't do it, I'd have a couple of days to re-sort ticket selling, and the whole thing would make the Palace game look well full.
Really hope Swansea can find a winner, to make it worth playing again, as like people say, we'd be below West Ham, and Bournemouth could make up places, so unlikely they'd just sack it off.
Match abandoned at Old Trafford. Sure they've got the right sport?
Gateshead school actually
two mins from my house, it was a dumped suitcase in a laneway.Well that's silly, it's 997 in Poland.
I think they got rid of that rule.
You have to be light hearted about it, I was there everyone was very calm - a bunch were even singing 'when I die I'm gonna go on the piss with georgie best'. Being stressed and serious would have incited panic at the ground. We can't be scared by this stuff, we have to remain happy and go about our lives not letting it affect us because then the 'terror' in 'terrorism' becomes a reality.
To be honest today made me less scared because the police and terror squad in this country really are doing their job incredibly well. The evacuation was pulled off with such effieceancy and no one was hurt. England is a country of dark humour, a joke is a coping mechanism and is always an immediate symptom of any of these kinds of situations. However if the outcome was more severe there wouldn't have been jokes made. But we're all fine so it's alright to joke about in order to not be scared.
They'll have to put trained sniffer dogs on every entrance if this turns out to be a real bomb.
There was always going to be a worry about the Euros, especially since the Paris attacks.
But the security there is going to be absolutely insane, as it should be.
Exactly. It happens quite a lot. If there is a bag with some electrical equipment in it, and you can't take a chance even checking whats in there. Or going back to the Anthrax crisis in the USA back in 2001, any white powder could have been Anthrax. You just dont take a chance.
Could be either. They'll detonate whatever the package was, and then analyze the remains to confirm.
I'm fairly sure Stan just posted one of his dogging messages.
Utterly terrifying news.
What the feck.
Most explosives gives off a scent, so I'm sure the sniffer dogs that were reported to be there would've confirmed the initial suspicion.
If they're anything like the sniffer dogs outside clubs they'll need something more (they don't catch many people).
That was a concern of mine when the initial reports came out. Hope it's nothing, but if someone is determined to do something, then it is possible they've tried to go to extra effort themselves. Hopefully nothing though.
Sky Sports saying it looks there is going to be a controlled explosion.
Surely that means there is actually a bomb there then?
Surely that means there is actually a bomb there then?
Is there a liveblog somewhere?
It's also 112 in Poland too, its an emergency number anywhere in the EU
https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/112-poland
https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/112-united-kingdom
Players are still in the ground?
Anything different leading up to it?
Graeme Souness said he was searched for the 1st time
Sky News saying the Premier League have confirmed the game will be re-arranged.