The FA have moved to confirm they will not be turning Wembley Stadium into a giant lasagne dish after a spoof WhatsApp audio message went viral.

Billy McLean, 29, sent the prank message to a group of friends and his mother as a parody of several others which have seen people claim to have inside information of government protocol regarding the response to to the coronavirus pandemic.

In the clip, he said: "My sister, her boyfriend’s brother works for the Ministry of Defence and one of the things that they’re doing to prepare… is building a massive lasagne.

"At the moment, as we speak, they’re building the massive lasagne sheets.

“They’re putting the underground heating at Wembley on, that’s going to bake the lasagne, and then they’re putting the roof across and that’s going to recreate the oven, and then what they’re going to do is lift it up with drones and cut off little portions and drop it off to people’s houses.”

Hours after initially sending the message, McLean was having it forwarded back to him by other friends not realising he is the man speaking in the clip.

He explained to The Guardian: "It was just a one take. I sent it to the football group, my mum and the girl that I’m trying to date.

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“It went around the football group. Then I got people that I know forwarding it to me, not knowing it was me, or forwarding it to me asking if I’d heard it. Ex-girlfriends were coming out of the woodwork asking was it me.”

The FA confirmed on Friday morning that they were aware of the clip but that they had no plans to turn Wembley into a giant lasagne.