06/19/2026
A married man drove nine hours to meet a woman he met online, only to learn she was a fake profile created by two football fans seeking revenge after a vacation argument.
A Manchester United fan met two Liverpool supporters on holiday in Cancun, argued about football for three weeks, got thrown in the swimming pool, and drove nine hours to Aberdeen to meet a woman who didn't exist.
They made it all the way from Mexico to Sheffield before striking.
Back home, the two Liverpool fans set up a fake social media account for a Scottish woman named Emma and began messaging Stuart Slann, 39, from Sheffield.
After a month of flirtatious emails and texts, Emma invited him to visit her at a remote farm in Aberdeen.
Slann drove nine hours through the night. When he arrived the farm was empty. Emma sent a text saying she was still at work. He waited in his car for three and a half hours.
Then his phone rang.
"Do you recognise our voices, Stuart? It's them Scouse lads who threw you in the pool. Do you recognise our Scouse accents?"
He replied: "Yes I do." They told him: "You've been framed" and burst into laughter.
Slann told the Sheffield Star: "It was a cruel thing to do. If they had asked me to drive to Manchester, Leeds or even Liverpool it wouldn't have been so bad. But Aberdeen was just cruel."
The story has one final, brutal footnote. His wife reportedly left him after discovering he had driven nine hours to meet a woman from the internet.
