The trouble at Wembley

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From the sound of it the police massively dropped the ball on this didn't see the warning signs online 1,000's of people discussing plans for the weekend's game all over social media and nowhere near enough police assigned to crowd control outside the stadium.

The lad photographer with a flare up his backside in Leicester Square is in the paper today 25 years old says he'd had 20 cans of cider and 3g of Cocaine and despite showing off his party trick he still managed to get into Wembley without a ticket.

There was absolutely no message put out asking fans to stay away from London if they didn't have tickets and no serious police presence to deal with those who decided to ignore the requests. Could be that police forces are limited with all the covid issues right now probably plenty of officers getting pinged left, right and centre and having to isolate.

There's even talk that stewards took bribes to let groups in, not totaly surprised these people are often on zero hour minimum wage gigs if someone offers them £250 per person to let them in can you really expect them to ignore that?

A lack of fan parks was also a problem covid restrictions meant large group gatherings couldn't be organised that might have kept parts of that crowd away from the stadium. That crowd got way to big for the police/security to control and to be fair they are lucky it didn't turn really bad.

A guy at work had a few mates who went down half had tickets and half didn't he said those who didn't left Wembley Way after about 15 minutes as it was absolute chaos.

Harry Maguire says his dad has broken ribs after getting caught up in a rush from fans to break through barriers.
 
Maybe the gov wanted a feel good factor rather than police presence?

Who knows.
 
I think they expected the crowd to be like a normal FA cup final crowd where you do have groups who don't have tickets finding ways in but not on that sort of scale.

Wimbledon mens final on the same day so police stretched across two venues in London probably didn't help either.

They were caught by surprise by the sheer scale of it and probably how early the crowds formed normally fans wouldn't start heading towards Wembley until maybe an hour or two before kick off from what I've seen Wembley Way was full by about 2pm.
 

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