Mata: Alert shocked us

Manchester United midfielder Juan Mata has revealed the players were “shocked” by the security alert at Old Trafford on Sunday.

United’s Premier League game against Bournemouth had to be postponed until Tuesday evening after the stadium was evacuated shortly before the scheduled 3pm kick-off after a dummy bomb was found on the back of a toilet door by a member of the club’s staff.

Mata, writing in his weekly online blog, also says the players, who had been warming up on the pitch before the alert was sounded, initially feared the device was a genuine bomb before it was blown up in a controlled explosion.

The Spaniard wrote: “This is one of the weirdest posts since I started writing this blog, and that was almost four years ago. 

“We were all shocked by what happened at Old Trafford on Sunday. The postponement of …

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