OT EVACUATED | Device signed as having been recovered, could NOT be detected by sniffer dogs

Good post. Absolutely nailed it.

Well, he hasn't. What happened today has nothing to do with what happens on the pitch.

It's as if some people would be slightly more accepting of such a situation if we were sitting top of the league. It takes a special brand of imbecility to draw comparison between the two.
 
The real winners out of all this are the burger vendors, 2 matches in one week! I suspect there's gonna be some shitty half and half "toilet bombers vs Bournemouth" scarfs too.
 
He's right though, somebody's head has to roll.

Don't go giving the club any ideas. Next thing we know we will hire an external company to stage a mock ISIS-style beheading on one of the concourses and on the first match of next season somebody will open a cupboard and a fake head will roll out onto the pitch.
 
I'm fecking livid about this whole scenario.

It's 2016 - terrorism is real - how can Old Trafford spend multiple days with a (potentially) explosive, unknown, device in one of its bathrooms? The idea that people are let into the venue without a full sweep is scary enough. The idea that events can be carried out midweek without security checks is insane.

Earlier today I was praising the team that evacuated the stadium and the forces that worked to ensure the safety of all the individuals who attended the game today (including friends and family of mine). Now I am left red faced.

Are there people who think this is a minor event?
 
Don't go giving the club any ideas. Next thing we know we will hire an external company to stage a mock ISIS-style beheading on one of the concourses and on the first match of next season somebody will open a cupboard and a fake head will roll out onto the pitch.

I bet you thought this alert was gonna be a green smiley.
 
Don't go giving the club any ideas. Next thing we know we will hire an external company to stage a mock ISIS-style beheading on one of the concourses and on the first match of next season somebody will open a cupboard and a fake head will roll out onto the pitch.

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I'm fecking livid about this whole scenario.

It's 2016 - terrorism is real - how can Old Trafford spend multiple days with a (potentially) explosive, unknown, device in one of its bathrooms? The idea that people are let into the venue without a full sweep is scary enough. The idea that events can be carried out midweek without security checks is insane.

Earlier today I was praising the team that evacuated the stadium and the forces that worked to ensure the safety of all the individuals who attended the game today (including friends and family of mine). Now I am left red faced.

Are there people who think this is a minor event?

Yes there are. And apparently suggesting that it is both embarrassing and negligent to say the least means people get labelled as club beaters with an agenda.
 
Well, he hasn't. What happened today has nothing to do with what happens on the pitch.

It's as if some people would be slightly more accepting of such a situation if we were sitting top of the league. It takes a special brand of imbecility to draw comparison between the two.

I doubt this very much I'd say it would be embarrassing for club and external firm if it happened to Barcelona
I'm fecking livid about this whole scenario.

It's 2016 - terrorism is real - how can Old Trafford spend multiple days with a (potentially) explosive, unknown, device in one of its bathrooms? The idea that people are let into the venue without a full sweep is scary enough. The idea that events can be carried out midweek without security checks is insane.

Earlier today I was praising the team that evacuated the stadium and the forces that worked to ensure the safety of all the individuals who attended the game today (including friends and family of mine). Now I am left red faced.

Are there people who think this is a minor event?

People will have you believe the club are in no way responsible for any of this and it's certainly not embarrassing, with the only reason some believe so is because we missed out on CL and have only scored 46 goals, never mind the fact an external company was able to forget a lifelike bomb in an OT toilet for four days before some random steward spotted it an hour before kick off today.
 
What I don't understand is if you have a training exercise like this with fake devices, surely at the end of the exercise you make sure all the devices are accounted for before leaving. Absolute shambles!
 
No it doesn't.

Seriously, you're so worked up one would think it was you who forgot to deplant the rubber bomb.

Of course that somebody has to be fired there, probably one that forgot to check their equipment. He'll cost his company around 3 mln pounds most likely. Today could have ended in some mass panic attack while leaving the stadium, there could've been the injured or even stampeded to death if shit got serious.

To pretend that everything is alright is pretty silly. Kudos to our stewards, the police and military for making all this stuff go, thankfully, impeccably safe but somebody's fecked up nontheless and should pay for it.
 
The best way to bury these embarrassing headlines is to sack LVG. Frame him as the fake bomb planter.
 
That would be where some embarrassment comes into play, if we sue a local business out of existence because of a mistake like this it would be tremendously poor form, I understand the magnitude of their error as I am sure the company do but to put some people on the dole queue as a result ? Nah, not for me.
The external company should have insurance. They screwed up in a big way, they should count in & out those things. They should be aware of the risks of leaving a bomb in a public place.
 
I think glass half full is how well the evacuation and emergency procedures were followed. There was no panicking or chaos, it was handled as well it could have at a sporting event with that many fans present.

The other side of this is how shocking it is that the stadium wasn't swept for explosive devices long before kick-off, why was the device found after the stadium had started to fill out.. Terrorists don't always walk in with the bombs on them, the security checks before the game, especially the day before one need to be more thorough.

Overall though I think the police and the stadium officials handled the situation the best they could, and I'm glad no one got hurt
 
Seriously, you're so worked up one would think it was you who forgot to deplant the rubber bomb.

Of course that somebody has to be fired there, probably one that forgot to check their equipment. He'll cost his company around 3 mln pounds most likely. Today could have ended in some mass panic attack while leaving the stadium, there could've been the injured or even stampeded to death if shit got serious.

To pretend that everything is alright is pretty silly. Kudos to our stewards, the police and military for making all this stuff go, thankfully, impeccably safe but somebody's fecked up nontheless and should pay for it.

I'm sat here in stiches man, I can't believe the state of this thread so to suggest I am worked up is ... I can't even address that.

It is obviously a mistake, should a cancelled football game equate to a company getting sued out of existence and having people who had nothing to do with the exercise unemployed as a result ? No, It's £3mil which is a lot of money to a lot of people, but not to us as a club.
 
- Sergio Ramos's mother on the wum
- Broken fax
- Leaked blood samples
- The Januzaj substitute
- Videos while bus being hammered by fans
- Dummy device

This year has well and truly been a magnificent PR journey.
 
Wait a minute.....

Does this mean the toilets at the ground are never cleaned?!? :eek:

Probably after the games along with the rest of the ground id assume. Obviously I don't know that for sure though.
 
:lol:

This club really is a complete joke
How? HOW is this anything to do with the club?

I can't believe people are blaming the club for this. The only thing we messed up on was not finding it in the toilet beforehand (why would the security staff be in the concourse toilets?), but ultimately the fecking fake bomb people or whoever the feck they were should've retrieved it. The security staff and stewards were impeccable today in getting 75,000+ people, including everyone in exec boxes, studios etc.

It was a bomb scare. It happens. The fact is that an EXTERNAL security firm fecked up massively, and they will be held accountable for this. They're truly in the shit.
 
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Well, he hasn't. What happened today has nothing to do with what happens on the pitch.

It's as if some people would be slightly more accepting of such a situation if we were sitting top of the league. It takes a special brand of imbecility to draw comparison between the two.

Whether it's on the pitch or off the pitch the clubs actions have an impact on our image.

The fact we've made negative headlines across both is a parrallel worth pointing out. Certainly not worthy of calling someone an imbecile over.
 
- Sergio Ramos's mother on the wum
- Broken fax
- Leaked blood samples
- The Januzaj substitute
- Videos while bus being hammered by fans
- Dummy device

This year has well and truly been a magnificent PR journey.

Nick Powell?
 
Someone needs to create an info graphic starting with Ferguson's last season. You know the type with the call outs on the time line with cartoon graphics. Then send it to Ed Woodward.
 
I'm sat here in stiches man, I can't believe the state of this thread so to suggest I am worked up is ... I can't even address that.

It is obviously a mistake, should a cancelled football game equate to a company getting sued out of existence and having people who had nothing to do with the exercise unemployed as a result ? No, It's £3mil which is a lot of money to a lot of people, but not to us as a club.

It's not the club who'll be paying it but the company most likely. I can't imagine our club letting this go like this with all smiles, it's sheer incompetence on the company's behalf and they'll have to pay for it.

I'm not talking about random people, I'm talking about somebody who was planting this shit and then he was probably responsible to gather all the shit back. What's so hard to understand here?

And again, you're underestimating what could've happened today. It's not just 'cancelled football game', it's an evacuation of 75k people. Anything and everything can go wrong there.