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Chatroom hoax on fan who thought he was playing away
Amar Singh16 Feb 2009
A married Manchester United supporter drove 400 miles for what he thought was going to be an affair with a woman he had chatted to on the internet - only to discover it was a hoax set up by two Liverpool fans he had met on holiday.
Stuart Slann, 39, from Sheffield, made the trip to a remote farm in Scotland to meet a women he had been flirting with online for weeks.
But when he arrived at the house "Emma" was nowhere to be seen.
Three hours later the pranksters called him and confessed it was all a trick. They taped the conversation and put it onto video-sharing website YouTube and Facebook accompanied by an embarrassing photo.
Mr Slann's wife, Louise, 32, then discovered that he had intended to have an affair and ended their marriage.
Mr Slann said today: "It was a cruel thing to do. I've been taken for a ride."
He met the two unnamed Liverpudlians during a holiday in Cancun, Mexico, last November.
The three spent the time arguing about their teams who are bitter North-West rivals.
On one occasion, Mr Slann was thrown into a pool. When the Liverpool fans returned to the UK they came up with the plan to humiliate him by setting up a false Facebook account pretending to be a Scottish woman called Emma.
Mr Slann added: "There's no doubt that 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.
"I'd been chatting to this girl on Facebook for about a month or so. I really thought she was genuine, and I had no reason to doubt it.
"On the night she asked me to Scotland I was on the road for about nine hours. And then when I got to this remote farm she sent me a text to say she was still in work.
"That's what made it worse, not only had I driven for nine hours, but I had to wait for about another three and a half hours for her to finish work. Then when I got the call to say it was all a hoax I just felt awful.
"If they had asked to drive to Manchester, Leeds or even Liverpool it wouldn't have been so bad and maybe I'd have seen the funny side. But to drag me all the way to Aberdeen was just cruel."
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Must have been really desperate if he is willing to travel 400 miles for a blind date.
- Nikos S, Nicosia, CYPRUS, 17/02/2009 07:04
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ha! he deserves everything he got. may all the internet exposure be a lesson to him.
- Nathan, Croydon, 16/02/2009 19:08
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deserves everything he got
- Phelps Robert, bussiere poitevine 87320 france, 16/02/2009 17:16
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Nice to see he shows no remorse for cheating on his wife! He keeps saying how hard done by he was and how cruel they were. What a selfish pig he deserves to be alone. His wife can do so much better
- Louisa, london, 16/02/2009 17:06
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Serves him right! My commiserations to his poor wife though.
- Sarah Bradshaw, Enfield, Middx, 16/02/2009 16:58
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