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

[Ixion]

we'll see if other teams think it's fine if we ever do the same.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/6627803.stm

A weakened Manchester United side were celebrating their 16th English league title against a Hammers team who needed a point to guarantee their Premiership status.

Sir Alex Ferguson left a host of star names on the bench and there were no complaints from his West Ham counterpart Alan Curbishley.

 

[Cpt Negative]

Not a disgrace at all. They can field whatever team they want.

I think there are rules that say they have to field their strongest possible team. Blackpool were fined for losing after making a number of changes against Villa a few years back.

 

[Uniquim]

we'll see if other teams think it's fine if we ever do the same.

There used to be rules against it.

Blackpool were fined for it when they were in the Premier League. The weakened team rule was later abandonded though.

 

[DomesticTadpole]

I think there are rules that say they have to field their strongest possible team. Blackpool were fined for losing after making a number of changes against Villa a few years back.

The fact they were resting some for the Euros. Did any other team do that? I can understand Liverpool fielding a weakened side but Swansea.

 

[No11]

we'll see if other teams think it's fine if we ever do the same.

Other teams played weakened teams, I don't see the problem. At the end of the day you have to look after your own.

 

[Al-T]

Hope the club push back on the game being rearranged for Tuesday. We need and deserve a full week to prepare for the final against Palarse.

 

[No11]

I think there are rules that say they have to field their strongest possible team. Blackpool were fined for losing after making a number of changes against Villa a few years back.

Yes and I remember thinking how farcical it was.

 

[clarkydaz]

Police evacuated Old Trafford earlier after a suspicious package later identified as a ‘trophy’ was discovered at the ground.

A spokesman for Manchester United confirmed they had no idea how the trophy came to be at Old Trafford and it definitely wasn’t theirs.

Groundsman Simon Williams told us how he made the discovery.

“My suspicions were first aroused when I saw this big gold cup with Barclays ribbons on it just lying about, and I thought ‘There’s no reason that should be there’.

“Clearly nobody at Manchester United would have something like that nowadays, so it must have been brought in by an outsider.”

The owner of the trophy has not been identified, although police are confident it did not originate in Manchester.

Security services are understood to be wanting to talk to a man they describe as ‘suspicious’ as CCTV footage shows him as not having any tattoos on his neck.

Police described the evacuation of the ground as extremely orderly.

“It was dead easy,” we were told.

“We just put the new Stone Roses single on and everyone went home.”

 

[Gerald G]

If the match is being played on Tuesday then just rest the whole team and play the U21s.

 

[saivet]

we'll see if other teams think it's fine if we ever do the same.

Didn't we field a weakend team vs West Ham the season Sheffield United went down?

It happens.

 

[We need an rvn]

The events of today saved LvG from being booed.

Dang it, i'll have to change the thread title of my "Sunday's atmosphere vs Bournemouth" thread

 

[Bojan11]

Didn't we field a weakend team vs West Ham the season Sheffield United went down?

It happens.

To be fair Sheffield United still didn't do their job and we had a FA cup final.

 

[GiddyUp]

I read on facetweet that the phone had a Phil Collins ringtone. We do know someone who resorts to violent acts over this particular artist, it's his trigger. Very suspect.

 

[Dominos]

we'll see if other teams think it's fine if we ever do the same.

We did it when we lost to West Ham in 2007, and our line up against Hull in 2009 was shambolic although we won anyway.

 

[77]

Police evacuated Old Trafford earlier after a suspicious package later identified as a ‘trophy’ was discovered at the ground.

A spokesman for Manchester United confirmed they had no idea how the trophy came to be at Old Trafford and it definitely wasn’t theirs.

Groundsman Simon Williams told us how he made the discovery.

“My suspicions were first aroused when I saw this big gold cup with Barclays ribbons on it just lying about, and I thought ‘There’s no reason that should be there’.

“Clearly nobody at Manchester United would have something like that nowadays, so it must have been brought in by an outsider.”

The owner of the trophy has not been identified, although police are confident it did not originate in Manchester.

Security services are understood to be wanting to talk to a man they describe as ‘suspicious’ as CCTV footage shows him as not having any tattoos on his neck.

Police described the evacuation of the ground as extremely orderly.

“It was dead easy,” we were told.

“We just put the new Stone Roses single on and everyone went home.”

Hilarious, you do that all on your own?

 

[Sigma]

Not sure if it's been posted already but

https://twitter.com/TrustyTransfers/status/731852472633987072

 

[pauldyson1uk]

just had it confirmed by somebody I know that works there, 8pm Tuesday.

 

[pauldyson1uk]

This is Moses. Moses came from Sierra Leone for his 1st game & he was devastated when the match was called off due to bomb threat. But he is happy now thanks to MUFC fans that decided to pay for his ticket(including flight tix to return home) to watch the FA Cup final. Well done boys!

 

[Sigma]

This is Moses. Moses came from Sierra Leone for his 1st game & he was devastated when the match was called off due to bomb threat. But he is happy now thanks to MUFC fans that decided to pay for his ticket(including flight tix to return home) to watch the FA Cup final. Well done boys!

Brilliant

 

[skidmark]

I was wondering what a 'controlled explosion' meant - i.e. how can they explode something then expect to play a game in the stadium any time soon. It seems that 'controlled explosion' no longer means blowing something up with explosives though: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/jul/04/terrorism.features11

 

[saivet]

To be fair Sheffield United still didn't do their job and we had a FA cup final.

All true, but Swansea don't want to play some of their key players, who have played all season, who will still have to play at the Euros for a few meaningless games for them.

Like Sheffield United, we didn't do our job either. It's harsh, but Swansea didn't field their reserves today.

 

[Scarecrow]

I missed the last few pages. Anything new and significant? We could do with a threadmark or two in here.

 

[BarstoolProphet]

This is Moses. Moses came from Sierra Leone for his 1st game & he was devastated when the match was called off due to bomb threat. But he is happy now thanks to MUFC fans that decided to pay for his ticket(including flight tix to return home) to watch the FA Cup final. Well done boys!

Great story.

 

[Jazz]

I read on facetweet that the phone had a Phil Collins ringtone. We do know someone who resorts to violent acts over this particular artist, it's his trigger. Very suspect.

Stevie G the weirdo. Never thought he'd stoop this low

 

[FreakyJim]

This is Moses. Moses came from Sierra Leone for his 1st game & he was devastated when the match was called off due to bomb threat. But he is happy now thanks to MUFC fans that decided to pay for his ticket(including flight tix to return home) to watch the FA Cup final. Well done boys!

that is actually great, something good did happen today at least

 

[GiddyUp]

There's a clear lack of character in the side, bunch of cowards, the likes of Keane and eric woulda disposed of the bomb themselves to save all the trouble after the game.

Roy Keane would of eaten the bomb, studs up tackle every pipe in the stand, grab the stewards by the scruff for not doing their jobs and then take the bomb sniffing dogs for a few laps of the pitch. Oh how I miss Roy, I wish we had his picture on our jersey instead of Chevrolet.

 

[pauldyson1uk]

some of the local news sites are a joke they are full of idiots posting rubbish, this is one.

In an hour the media have told you 3 different story's about what as happened at Old Trafford they are lying to you the truth is this was an attempted terrorist attack. Media lies media cover ups for the Zionist controlled government and media how are the rothchilds your bosses doing paying you well to tell lies for them???

 

[VeevaVee]

Police evacuated Old Trafford earlier after a suspicious package later identified as a ‘trophy’ was discovered at the ground.

A spokesman for Manchester United confirmed they had no idea how the trophy came to be at Old Trafford and it definitely wasn’t theirs.

Groundsman Simon Williams told us how he made the discovery.

“My suspicions were first aroused when I saw this big gold cup with Barclays ribbons on it just lying about, and I thought ‘There’s no reason that should be there’.

“Clearly nobody at Manchester United would have something like that nowadays, so it must have been brought in by an outsider.”

The owner of the trophy has not been identified, although police are confident it did not originate in Manchester.

Security services are understood to be wanting to talk to a man they describe as ‘suspicious’ as CCTV footage shows him as not having any tattoos on his neck.

Police described the evacuation of the ground as extremely orderly.

“It was dead easy,” we were told.

“We just put the new Stone Roses single on and everyone went home.”

Hilarious, you do that all on your own?

Newsthump. Way off the mark on this one considering the amount of trophies we have and that we're in a final. Lame

 

[Burrow]

A bomb crew at Rygge airport in Norway right now, having stopped a plane to Manchester. Two persons are detained according to the newspapers.

 

[Rado_N]

some of the local news sites are a joke they are full of idiots posting rubbish, this is one.

In an hour the media have told you 3 different story's about what as happened at Old Trafford they are lying to you the truth is this was an attempted terrorist attack. Media lies media cover ups for the Zionist controlled government and media how are the rothchilds your bosses doing paying you well to tell lies for them???

You sure you didn't just stumble on @BringNaniBack's blog?

 

[Uniquim]

A bomb crew at Rygge airport in Norway right now, having stopped a plane to Manchester. Two persons are detained according to the newspapers.

someone on reddit translated it:

Link to some of the Norwegian newspapers:

http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/evakuerte-manchester-fly-1.12948372

http://www.dagbladet.no/2016/05/15/nyheter/innenriks/rygge/evakuering/44242121/

From the newspaper Dagbladet:

A Ryanair flight headed to Manchester have been evacuated at Rygge airport, police officials in Oslo statet on Twitter.

The reason is what that the police say is suspicious behavior of two people.

"Police have control of the two persons. Passengers and baggage are also checked".

The police bomb squad is on its way from Oslo to conduct investigations.

"The bomb group is sent to Eastern Police District following a request for assistance", said Christian Krohn Engeseth, operations manager of the Oslo police, told Dagbladet.

Engeseth do not want to comment further about the suspicious persons and why the bomb group is sent, and refers to Eastern Police District for comments.

The plane was scheduled to take off at 18.55."


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it seems random though. Surely just two idiots who had seen it on the news, and wanted to be public idiots. Hope they get slapped with a huge fine.

 

[77]

I was wondering what a 'controlled explosion' meant - i.e. how can they explode something then expect to play a game in the stadium any time soon. It seems that 'controlled explosion' no longer means blowing something up with explosives though: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/jul/04/terrorism.features11

Could be a simple as firing a rifle attached to a remote controlled buggy at the object.

 

[Minkaro]

A draw would take us above Southampton into 5th place. That means, if I'm not mistaken, we'd qualify for the Europa League group stage, whereas 6th sees us enter at last qualifying round thing. Of course, if we win the FA Cup we'd be in the group stage anyway. So perhaps playing the reserves on Tuesday and resting the better players and going all out for the FA Cup is best. If everything goes wrong and we end up in the qualifying round, that's not a disaster - we'd have to be really bloody awful to go out of the Europa League then.

I was going to say "play the kids on Tuesday," and then I remembered that they're our best players <_<.

 

[pauldyson1uk]

I can see not a single player who will play in the Final playing on Tuesday.

 

[Phurry]

Could be a simple as firing a rifle attached to a remote controlled buggy at the object.

They tend to use a thing like a pneumatic bolt gun, the aim is to destroy the detonator whilst keeping as much of the device intact as possible for forensic examination.

I can't remember why, but the robot is traditionally called a "wheelbarrow".

 

[OnlyTwoDaSilvas]

This is Moses. Moses came from Sierra Leone for his 1st game & he was devastated when the match was called off due to bomb threat. But he is happy now thanks to MUFC fans that decided to pay for his ticket(including flight tix to return home) to watch the FA Cup final. Well done boys!

That is ace. Chuffed for him. Great gesture and great for him to experience that. His original tweet went viral and he was getting the dogs abuse because of it, because the majority of people who use Twitter to talk about football are vicious, poisonous people. It was very sad to see. Glad he can stick two fingers up at the lot of them.

 

[ralphie88]

This is Moses. Moses came from Sierra Leone for his 1st game & he was devastated when the match was called off due to bomb threat. But he is happy now thanks to MUFC fans that decided to pay for his ticket(including flight tix to return home) to watch the FA Cup final. Well done boys!

Not to mention the fact he's also being put up in Mancs free of charge by kind hearted reds in the meantime. His first trip to old Trafford didn't go quite as planned but I don't think he'll be forgetting it anytime soon. United! :-)

 

[rcoobc]

Tuesday - Saturday is three full days rest. We can deal with that

 

[RonaldoVII]

Tuesday to Saturday is still a decent enough break to recover for the players. Sure they could get injured but could also get injured in training later in the week.

 

[saivet]

Any link or a bit more context to this story about Moses?