A FOOTBALL fan was spotted holding a lifelike toy gun while patting one of Manchester United’s most talented teenage stars on the arm.
The supporter was seen with JJ Gabriel, who is only 15, after his side’s televised 2-1 FA Youth Cup semi-final win over Crystal Palace.
The fan waved the gun about when Gabriel came over after the game at Old Trafford on Friday.
Wonderkid Gabriel, who has played for England under-17s, often makes a playful gun hand gesture after scoring.
He did so after he netted earlier on Friday.
A club source told The Sun the gun was a plastic toy.
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They said the youngster would have gone through a metal detector to get in.
They added that there had been no reports of a weapon at the game.
We told earlier how JJ Gabriel is not the only flavour of the month in the Manchester United academy.
Midfielder Jim Thwaites was included in Michael Carrick’s first-team training squad in Ireland last week and the Cumbrian brought some first-team tempo to United’s FA Youth Cup semi-final with Crystal Palace.
Thwaites, 18, has a different kind of momentum and is crucially playing in an area United are planning to overhaul in the summer.
Kobbie Mainoo is close to scrawling his signature on a new contract but Casemiro is going and Manuel Ugarte could follow him out.
