Old Trafford Evacuated After Suspicious Package Found

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I guess the only good thing to come out of this is at least match day security is up to scratch, and evacuating 60k people went smoothly. 

[Larry_LCFC]

What a major **** up by someone. That's ridiculous.

[AyewJoking]

Ours are compleatly incompetent , I have been sneaking in Cracken Rum to every away game all season

NOT One search came close to finding 2 x 12 Oz hip flasks all season !

Well actually I was nearly caught in man city but the guy accept my "it's my phone" excuse

My little satchel was never ONCE checked properly all season

 

you almost sound disappointed by that

 

make sure you check it regularly in the shower

[ozleicester]

False Expectations Appearing Real.

[yorkie1999]

So , a security firm planted a fake bomb in a excercise, and couldn't even find it themselves. Duh

[RowlattsFox]

I did wonder yesterday if it was an elaborate training exercise no one knew about to see how a stadium would respond. But turns out they just forgot about it.

Hope they are going to reimburse fans, particularly the Bournemouth lot.

[Danno]

Security is so lax at the ground. Often if you have a rucksack they just have a brief look at the top thing in your bag then let you on your way when you could have all sorts in there.

[Guest Mee-9]

What a farce.

[purpleronnie]

A Manchester United fan from Sierra Leone whose dream trip to Old Trafford was ruined by Sunday's dummy bomb drama will attend the FA Cup final thanks to a campaign by supporters.
 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-36300280

[Larry_LCFC]

Wonder if united will try suing the two security companies who were involved in the training exercises. £3 million is a lot to lose.

[Alf Bentley]

Obviously a major cock-up with the record-keeping of the companies doing the training exercises (double-check that all such items were accounted for, maybe?).

 

But I do wonder about the response of the club on the day. Presumably somebody at MUFC has overall responsibility for ground security. Presumably that person would also be aware that a security training exercise took place a few days earlier. Did it not occur to them that the device might be a training dummy left behind? Maybe it did occur to them, but they were unable to contact the training company to confirm this? If in doubt, they'd have had to evacuate, but could they have eliminated that doubt even when the device was discovered before kick-off?

 

I never cease to be amazed at how incompetent many institutions are, and how little useful communication there often is between them.

[Ross-Kemp]

Obviously a major cock-up with the record-keeping of the companies doing the training exercises (double-check that all such items were accounted for, maybe?).

But I do wonder about the response of the club on the day. Presumably somebody at MUFC has overall responsibility for ground security. Presumably that person would also be aware that a security training exercise took place a few days earlier. Did it not occur to them that the device might be a training dummy left behind? Maybe it did occur to them, but they were unable to contact the training company to confirm this? If in doubt, they'd have had to evacuate, but could they have eliminated that doubt even when the device was discovered before kick-off?

I never cease to be amazed at how incompetent many institutions are, and how little useful communication there often is between them.

All of the devices used were signed back in so you'd have to assume Man Utd did the right thing in that situation.