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Drone stops play in bizarre incident in Fleetwood-Arsenal match

A drone hovering above the stadium caused a delay in play inside two minutes of the English League Cup match between fourth-tier Fleetwood Town and Arsenal on Tuesday.

— Sportsnet Soccer, publisher's words · Read the original ↗

9 outlets5 languages8 countriesUpdated

Who broke it

Sportsnet Soccer

EN · CA

Followed by

8

outlets in 5 languages over 17 h 28 min.

Our read

Corroborated (5)

5 of 5 outlets each added at least one detail no earlier report had. That is independence, not agreement: two of them can still contradict each other.

Judged on the 5 outlets in our latest edition; the timeline keeps all 9 we have seen.

Coverage timeline

9 outlets · first-seen order
  1. +0 min

    Sportsnet SoccerEN · CABroke it

    Drone stops play in bizarre incident in Fleetwood-Arsenal match

  2. +6 min

    Daily Mail FootballEN · GBOwn reporting

    Drone stops play during Arsenal's clash with Fleetwood: Police forced to intervene as Carabao Cup tie is suspended for nearly 10 minutes in bizarre scenes

  3. +2 h 3 min

    LiberoES · PEOwn reporting

    Sport Huancayo cayó polémicamente 2-0 ante Juan Pablo II y los memes no perdonan en redes

  4. +2 h 8 min

    FTBLEN · AUOwn reporting

    Premier League champs Arsenal humiliated by team 84 places below them in historic EFL Cup upset: ‘The biggest cup shock of all time?’

    Cites Sky Sports

  5. +9 h 31 min

    VoetbalkrantNL · BERepeats

    Pijnlijke avond voor Arsenal: drone legt duel stil, daarna volgt pijnlijke uitschakeling tegen vierdeklasser

  6. +10 h 52 min

    BBC Sport — FootballEN · GBOwn reporting

    Lawlor delighted after beating 'best team in the country'

  7. +13 h 23 min

    Soccer LadumaEN · ZAOwn reporting

    Arteta Reacts To Cup Defeat By EFL League Two Side

  8. +17 h 25 min

    11FreundeDE · DEOwn reporting

    Fleetwood Town: Junge sieht Pokal-Sensation gegen Arsenal vor dem eigenen Zimmerfenster

  9. +17 h 28 min

    Rivista UndiciIT · ITOwn reporting

    La vittoria contro l’Arsenal resterà indimenticabile per i tifosi del Fleetwood, e il bello è che adesso potrebbe avere un impatto gigantesco sulle finanze del club

    Cites Sky Sports

First seen is our own clock across 245+ feeds; it is not a guarantee of who published first. Each time is the earlier of the publisher's own timestamp and our first sighting. Headlines and summaries are the publishers' own words, linked to the original. How we work out who broke it.