{"id":418078,"date":"2025-09-12T09:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T09:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/418078\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T09:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T09:19:10","slug":"manchester-united-investigating-missing-boots-before-champions-league-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/418078\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester United investigating missing boots before Champions League qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manchester United are investigating how players’ boots ended up getting lost before their crucial Women’s Champions League qualifier in Norway on Thursday.<\/b><\/p>\n

United officials had to buy replacement boots from a local shop after discovering some had gone missing on the trip to Bergen.<\/p>\n

The boots’ absence was not noticed until the day of the game as United had trained at Carrington before departure.<\/p>\n

Club officials arrived at the Torshov Sport shop less than three hours before kick-off at 16:30 local time and bought 15 pairs of boots and 20 sets of shin guards.<\/p>\n

“We are a big store but they were very lucky we had enough boots in stock that were the right size,” shop owner Andre Gullord told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n

“They paid between \u00a3200 and \u00a3230 for each pair of boots and \u00a330 for the shin guards.<\/p>\n

“We have had the odd player come in because they have left their boots behind but never the entire team.” <\/p>\n

He added: “Maybe we should have told them we only had boots with no studs to help the local team!”<\/p>\n

At Gullord’s estimate, the unscheduled shopping spree would have cost just under \u00a34,000.<\/p>\n

Marc Skinner’s side lost the first leg 1-0 to SK Brann<\/a> as they look to secure a place in the main draw for the first time in their history.<\/p>\n

United midfielder Lisa Naalsund, who is from Bergen, confirmed to TV2 after the match she had asked her mother to bring some boots to the stadium.<\/p>\n

“There were a few shoes that disappeared,” she said. “We haven’t quite figured out where they are yet. It was right before we went to the stadium so there was a bit of chaos.”<\/p>\n

United had taken a charter flight to Norway from Manchester for ease of travel given they have a Women’s Super League trip to London City Lionesses on Sunday.<\/p>\n

“A bag containing some of our players’ boots went missing during the journey to Bergen,” said a United spokesperson. <\/p>\n

“We are investigating how this happened. <\/p>\n

“In the meantime, we secured new boots of the right make and sizes for all the affected players.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester United are investigating how players’ boots ended up getting lost before their crucial Women’s Champions League qualifier…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-418078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115190587065708561","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}