Around 90 minutes. For the Spurs game the police redirected us to a road with a low bridge which caused the hold up. For both the Spurs and West Ham games we weren't even that far away, just external circumstances made us late. You'd think the police in London would have had a good idea that the road they directed us towards had a low bridge on.
OT EVACUATED | Device signed as having been recovered, could NOT be detected by sniffer dogs
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Nah the club should ignore what the police tell them do. Feck the police, we are Manchester United!
It was taped to a toilet door apparently.
Ultimate responsibility lies with us I'm afraid, they're an outside agency that we hired to train our staff, it's our responsibility to ensure we've made the place safe for the public again following the operation that we organised.
I know they get it from all angles but for once it's our London based fans along with the Irish daytrippers and Asian tourists that I really feel sorry for.
I know they get it from all angles but for once it's our London based fans along with the Irish daytrippers and Asian tourists that I really feel sorry for.
I'd love to see the emails/hear the conversations that have been had today.
We're going to win 19-0 tomorrow due to a "suspect package" being delivered to the Bournemouth dressing room shortly before kick off.
I know its not funny, as it could have been real, but i could just imagine the guy who found it, sitting down to take a shit, seeing a bomb staring back at him.
It's dumb if they left it there by mistake sure. I don't believe in giving people an easy way out and IF is the key word. It needs a proper investigation. Will we get one? Probably not.
Is it a flying pig?
feck. That would be a really scary moment. I'd love for whoever found it to come forward, although some chancer will probably come out lying.
I know its not funny, as it could have been real, but i could just imagine the guy who found it, sitting down to take a shit, seeing a bomb staring back at him.
Doesn't do the club any favours with regard to the questions of how we're being run from top to bottom.
No, a brown bag with a £ sign on the side of it.
He'll prob sue us for emotional trauma, and his solicitor will give evidence that "he's afraid to go into a toilet anymore", prob get £60,000 compensation in this age we live in.
So they have just essentially paid out around £3m in compensation to ticket holders out of the goodness of their hearts then?
Not unless it goes off. We'll then enjoy 100% possession, make 3000 sideways and backwards passes, and score 2 goals.
And also somehow fail to defend a succession of poorly taken corners properly.
Done.
I think you mean an engraved watch and a genuine Van Gogh. That way it's not a bribe like
Device not contained any explosives, was marked as having been recovered
It does actually.
Edit: Some baffling comments on here and on Twitter regarding the whole situation. I did not expect that at all, to be honest.
Why is that so unbelievable? I don't know why some are so convinced that the club is run by some evil men that don't care about the relationship with the fans.
Okay... it's beginning to make sense now.
Yea but what about our embarrassment?
This does reek a bit of the De Gea fax machine situation though.
"Not our fault guv, blame the other guy".
"Not our fault guv, blame the other guy".
So it unequivocally wasn't our fault. Can we all apologise to lovely Ed now?
Facts would indicate that the external company contractor majorly blundered.
I imagine in future such devices will be clearly labelled as bogus, and display a serial number and phone number of the contractor to enable a quick check. Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
Of course they did, but as we've been discussing for 20 pages, United should have found it in the intervening 4 days
Now if it doesn't contain anything that can be found by sniffer dogs, and was in a place that no one was likely to find it... Well maybe United are truly blameless.
Wasn't the reason behind reaching late for the spurs game due to police redirecting the coach?
Yes, they redirected us to a road with a bridge our coach couldn't pass under.
Well i think that security firm will no longer be used. G4S may be available though.
Insurance companies do sell insurance against negligence and employee misconduct as well as many other things that could fall into the stupid category. It's just a question of whether you want to pay for it. I run an IT service business and have insurance to protect against data loss whether it came from hardware failure or something an employee did. I'd imagine a security firm would need pretty substantial coverages due to the nature of their work. Any business that hires another business will also require proof of insurance or a certificate of insurance with coverage levels. It protects both the client and the business because shit happens, just like Sunday.
But that super impartial city idiot assured me it was completely Uniteds fault 
Media are awfully quiet on Woody's statement.
All gutted that it absolves us of any blame.
All gutted that it absolves us of any blame.
So the security company made and planted a device that
a) their own team of experts whose job it is to find and disarm devices couldn't find and
b) sniffer dogs couldn't find cause technically it wasn't actually an explosive device of any sort
I feel like they're not really getting the point of the whole 'security test' thing.
a) their own team of experts whose job it is to find and disarm devices couldn't find and
b) sniffer dogs couldn't find cause technically it wasn't actually an explosive device of any sort
I feel like they're not really getting the point of the whole 'security test' thing.
What if a terrorist sticks a similar sign on their device?
Would be easy enough for terrorists to do similar. People aren't going to check a device like that until a controlled explosion has taken place. Too risky.