A Championship rugby league match between Goole Vikings and Whitehaven was delayed by 80 minutes after a replica grenade was found next to the pitch.<\/p>\n
Goole released a statement 30 minutes before the intended 15:00 BST kick-off time saying that Sunday’s match had been delayed because of “an incident at the Victoria Pleasure Ground that is currently being handled by the relevant authorities”.<\/p>\n
Fans were advised not to arrive at the venue until 16:00 BST.<\/p>\n
Humberside Police said: “Officers were called to Victoria Pleasure Ground in Goole on Sunday, 12 April to reports of a possible grenade being found in the area.<\/p>\n
“A cordon was in place at the time whilst a specialist team were called to examine the item. <\/p>\n
“Upon inspection the suspected grenade was found to be a non-explosive replica and was safely removed from the area.”<\/p>\n
The suspected grenade was found near the ground’s athletics track which surrounds the pitch.<\/p>\n
Play eventually got under way at 16:20 BST, with supporters told to return to the ground shortly before.<\/p>\n
“We would like to thank the players, coaches, staff and supporters of both clubs for their patience and support,” Goole said.<\/p>\n
The Vikings fell to a 36-22 defeat which leaves them 18th in the Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Championship rugby league match between Goole Vikings and Whitehaven was delayed by 80 minutes after a replica…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-603939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-rugby","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}