bomb scare

mayordenis

holy sh..!
ill update this as soon as i actually get some info :P

bomb scare in the bernabeu

its on skynews

cournioni

Crap. That would be a hell of alot of casualties if that is true and it went off...

David19

Who would put a bomb in the bernabeu? I don't think al qaeda or ETA would at the moment.

Chucky the tree

what was the score in the match?

kleefarr

It's being played now I think. Been on about 15 minutes.

David19

it took me awhile to figure out but the sky match isn't live. The game was almost over. Apparently they found a suspicious rucksack and the stadium was evacuated.

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1163775,00.html

joe.

match was abandoned with 3 mins remaining. said it was to go off 8pm gmt.

more likely some far eastern betting syndicate. maybe

A Dub in Glasgo

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/4090669.stm

Spectators have been evacuated from Real Madrid's Bernabeu stadium following a bomb scare during the game between the hosts and Real Sociedad.

More than 70,000 people abandoned the ground with only two minutes left to play in the Spanish league game.

The Basque newspaper Gara apparently received a telephone call saying a bomb was due to explode at 2100 local time.

The Basque separatist group ETA has issued similar warnings before a series of small explosions in recent days.

mayordenis

score was 1-1 afaik

joe.

Real Madrid's game with Real Sociedad was abandoned after 88 minutes because of a bomb alert in the Spanish capital.

The Santiago Bernabeu was evacuated after warnings of a possible blast came through.

It is understood that a bomb threat was made to a Basque newspaper - Gara, who immediately passed on the message that a device had been placed in the VIP area at The Bernabeu.

Around 70,000 fans were present in the ground, after the message from the Basque separatist group ETA came through - but everyone was evacuated within ten minutes without any major incident.

The match was halted with Real drawing 1-1 with Socidedad. Ronaldo had given them a first half lead before Nihat levelled late on.

mike65

from bbc

The Bernabeu was targeted by ETA on 1 May, 2002, when Madrid were about to play FC Barcelona in a Champions League semi-final.

A car bomb exploded in a street outside the stadium and 17 people were slightly injured.

ETA have been planting bombs again recently all small ones clearly designed to cause disruption rather than damage...

Mike.

Chong

Its a real pity that such a situation has to affect football. Thank god no one was injured and no one got involved in a hillsborough type disaster.

A Dub in Glasgo

Sky Sports video (12Mb WMV file)
Courtesy of ro2

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=2180457#post2180457

Makaveli

Good to see security dealt with the problem exceptionally. With that many people to evacuate it's great to hear that nobody was hurt and it was all kept in order.


Cynical as this is, with that little time left on the clock and Real Madrid only drawing, I wonder is it possible that some fanatic made the phonecall to the paper about the bomb scare to get that match abandoned. I wouldn't put it past an Ultra Sur to do something like that.

LegacyUser

That is exactly what I was thinking...

The Rooster

Astonishingly they are going to finish the game off, at 6pm on January 5th. There's 2 minutes and 40 seconds left and 4 minutes of injury time. Both teams have agreed to play the remainder.

Will make for great TV if Sky have it!

TwoShedsJackson

Hundreds of fans streamed across the pitch on their way to the exits after the game was called off.

Tourists and fans took advantage of the opportunity for a photograph between the famous stadium's goalposts.

Worth being blown up for?? :rolleyes: