COACH loads of Sunderland Football Club fans were delayed at services on the M62 motorway in West Yorkshire as they travelled back from a match against Everton on Saturday.
Police boarded the coaches in search of a man wearing a red and white shirt who was alleged to have threatened someone in the Hartshead Moor services with a knife, at 7pm.
One fan said: "We were only supposed to stop for ten minutes, but the police delayed us by half an hour. They came onto our bus and said there had been an incident at the service station."
A spokesman for West Yorkshire Police explained that they received a call from a member of the public claiming to have been threatened with a knife by someone wearing a red and white shirt, but when they arrived at the services, the complainant could not be found.
He said no further action would be taken.
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