Toilets are ablaze
Arson: Meter-high flames at football stadium
March 3, 2026 – 5:54 p.mReading time: 1 min.
A football stadium in England is ablaze. The fire is obviously not a coincidence. Luckily no one gets hurt.
The English sixth division team Macclesfield Football Club has apparently fallen victim to an arson attack. On Tuesday, the club confirmed knowledge of the incident at its own Moss Rose Stadium, which is said to have occurred in the late evening hours of Monday and early morning hours of Tuesday. “We want to reassure everyone,” the statement said. “The situation is under control, there are no injuries and investigations into the cause of the fire are ongoing.”
According to Cheshire Police it was the work of arsonists. Two portable toilets at the stadium were deliberately set on fire. The fire department said it responded to a report of a fire visible over a wall at the stadium. When the emergency services arrived, they found an outbuilding next to the club’s fan shop “in flames”.
“Two firefighters wearing breathing apparatus extinguished the fire with water jets from hoses,” said a fire department spokesman. They remained on site until 4:30 a.m. “to cool the fire site and search for embers with a thermal imaging camera.”
Video footage of the fire is currently circulating online. In a clip published on the club’s fan page on Facebook, you can see how the flames are now rising meters high over the wall at the stadium.
Macclesfield Football Club said it would not comment further on the situation at this time while the investigation was ongoing.
