Wembley will not be turned into a giant lasagne dish to help feed the nation during the coronavirus outbreak, the FA has actually confirmed.

A spoof voice message on WhatsApp quickly went viral over the last two days claiming the Ministry of Defence was about to requisition the national stadium to cook the world’s biggest lasagne.

Getty Images - Getty 1 The FA have confirmed Wembley is not being turned into a giant lasagne

As bonkers as it sounds, plenty of people were sharing it on the messaging service.

The audio 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 to drop it off to people’s homes.”

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Billy McLean, the 29-year-old behind the fake message, was parodying the masses of misinformation we are seeing during the coronavirus pandemic and shows how easily the fake news can spread.

McLean shared it among a group of friends at lunchtime on Thursday and within a few hours it had been sent back to him having been shared globally.

He told The Guardian: “It was just 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.”

And according to the Daily Mirror, the FA have actually moved to confirm that while they are aware of the clip, they have no plans to turn Wembley into a giant lasagne.