Manchester United have launched an investigation into how gamers’ boots have been misplaced on the best way to their Girls’s Champions League qualifier in Norway, forcing them to scramble for brand new ones.
The Crimson Devils had to purchase a variety of alternative boots and shin pads from a neighborhood store hours earlier than the primary leg of their tie at SK Brann on Thursday, which they misplaced 1-0.
Store proprietor Andre Gullord informed the BBC that the membership had spent a number of thousand kilos.
“We’re a giant retailer however they have been very fortunate we had sufficient boots in inventory that have been the fitting dimension,” Gullord stated. “They paid between £200 ($270) and £230 for every pair and £30 for the shin guards.
“We now have had the odd participant are available as a result of they’ve left their boots behind however by no means the whole group.”
Midfielder Lisa Naalsund, who’s from Bergen, the place SK Brann are primarily based, informed Norwegian TV that she had requested her mom to deliver some boots to the stadium for her.
“A bag containing a few of our gamers’ boots went lacking throughout the journey to Bergen,” stated a United spokesman.
“We’re investigating how this occurred. Within the meantime, we’ve secured new boots for all of the affected gamers.”
United will hope to show the tie round in subsequent week’s second leg as they search to succeed in the group levels of the Girls’s Champions League for the primary time.
