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England scout Alan Cork caught up in Hannover terrorist threat incident

Alan Cork
Image: England scout Alan Cork was caught up in the Hannover scare

England scout Alan Cork has been caught up in a terrorist incident for the second time in five days.

Germany's friendly with the Netherlands in Hannover on Tuesday was called off less than two hours before kick off due to a threat. The police said there were 'serious plans' to cause an explosion at the HDI Arena.

On Friday, Cork had feared for his life in Paris watching France play Germany when three explosions close to the ground killed three people.

Cork, 56, told Sky Sports News HQ: "It's been really strange again. We got picked up by our driver and got taken to the stadium and the driver said there's something wrong because we were queueing.

"When we got within 100 yards of the stadium, he said 'The game is off. They've found a bomb. We need to go.' So we just left very quickly.

Germany friendly called off
Germany friendly called off

Germany's friendly against Netherlands was called off after indications of a 'terrorist threat'

"Compared to the France thing on Friday, everyone was quite calm, they were strolling around but I don't think people knew what was going on.

"It was weird tonight because everyone was saying everyone was calm but we weren't sure and just got out of the way again. It's one of those things. You want to run away and try and be safe."

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