A MARRIED Manchester United fan drove 400 miles for a
saucy weekend with a girl he’d met on the internet only to discover
it was an elaborate hoax set up by two burly Liverpool supporters
he had upset on holiday.
Stuart Slann spent nine hours in his car travelling to Aberdeen
believing he was about to enjoy his first night of romance with a
girl called “Emma”, whom he had never talked to but had been
sending him suggestive email messages for over a month.
But when Stuart, 39, from Sheffield, South Yorkshire, finally got
to the remote farm in the north of Scotland where “Emma” had told
him she lived it was locked up and deserted. He then got a text
message saying she was delayed at work and that he would have to
wait.
After sitting in his car growing increasingly cold and frustrated
for over three hours, Stuart finally called “Emma” and was
horrified to hear a man with a Liverpool accent answer and say:
“Hello Stuart, do you remember us? It’s them Scouse lads who threw
you in the pool. You’ve been framed.”
To complete Stuart’s misery, his wife Louise, 34, now knows about
the “affair” on the Facebook website and has left him.
Last November Stuart, a lifelong United fan, fell out with the two
Liverpool supporters who were staying in the same holiday hotel in
Cancun, Mexico, after chatting each day about football.
During one row beside the pool during his three-week break the two
Liverpudlians, who are both professional Cage Fighters, got so fed
up with Stuart’s claims about how much better Manchester were than
Liverpool they threw him into the water, accidentally breaking his
ankle and smashing one of his ribs.
But their revenge didn’t stop once they got home to Merseyside.
The pair then tricked Stuart into sending emails to “Emma”, a
fictional girl they had created on the Facebook website.
The tricksters, under the guise of “Emma”, contacted Stuart and
claimed to like the look of his photo on the web and share his love
of United.
During the nightly email exchanges that followed, “Emma” told
Stuart how she couldn’t wait to meet up and make more of their
budding relationship.
To make matters even worse, as Stuart drove to Scotland he was even
persuaded in a text message to use his mobile telephone to send a
rude photograph of himself to “Emma”, who he mistakenly thought was
excitedly waiting for him to arrive north of the border.
Now the two
unnamed Liverpool fans have posted that photo – and a tape of the
telephone conversation when Stuart finally discovers who “Emma”
really is – on the YouTube website, where it is proving a
huge hit. Even websites for supporters of Liverpool, Manchester
United and Sheffield Wednesday are now advertising where to find
the footage and last week it began appearing on internet pages in
Holland, making him a laughing stock with football fans across
Europe.
Last night, the father-of-one, a building labourer, said: “There’s
no doubt I’ve been done good and proper by the lads from
Liverpool.
“It was cruel, but I’ll hold my hands up and say they really wound
me up.”
