Euro 2020 final disorder report

[Kew Owl]

5 hours ago, edinburghowl said:

The main sanction will be that you won’t be hosting another tournament again any time soon. That is a banker.

You may well be right, but do I detect a degree of gloating on your part at this probability ?

 

At least you Jocks - assuming you’ve qualified - don’t have so far to travel when it’s held in England - and you don’t need passports either 

[Big Malc]

6 hours ago, Ellis Rimmer said:

Absolutely vile thing to say

You be on the side of a bloke who tried to nick a disabled kid’s wheelchair to get in, I’m on the side of the kid.

[Big Malc]

A few excerpts.  These are all prior to fans gaining entry without tickets:

 

There was rife drunkenness and drug-taking, police dogs being kicked and officers attacked, bodies "flung to the floor" and players' families "scared for their lives" - as 2,000 people without tickets managed to get into the stadium
 

 

10am:  Crowds, consuming alcohol, start to gather outside the stadium. The level of drunkenness is noted by a London Underground official: "I've been doing this for over a decade and have worked on various other celebratory events, including New Year's Eve. I have never seen drunkenness like this so early on in the day."

 

Testimony later suggests copious amounts of drugs, particularly cocaine, were also being taken. The report said that 47% of 7,000 ticket holders who took part in the review saw illegal drug taking when arriving at Wembley.

 

In addition steward and security staff believe there was a high level of drug use. One Sports Ground Safety Authority official said: "Drug usage was noticeable. It took four or five stewards to try and hold someone down - more than the number it usually takes when fans are drunk."

 

 

The police are subjected to violence throughout the day with one Wembley external safety manager claiming: "One 'fan' just punched a policeman out of nowhere, no build up to the incident, just walked up and punched him…never seen anything like that."

 

 

1pm:  Someone from Brent Council added: "It was like a medieval football match. Stuff was getting chucked in the air - it was dangerous. People were climbing the trees and climbing traffic lights. Things had buckled."

 

 

MPS deploys 175 officers at Wembley 30 minutes earlier than planned. Fireworks, smoke bombs and glass bottles are thrown on Olympic Way - the road that links Wembley Park Underground station to the stadium.
 

 

A further 50 public order officers arrive, alongside 100 specialist public officers from the MPS Territorial Support Group. It is deemed too unsafe to deploy volunteers, and council workers are also withdrawn for their own safety.

A ticket holder arriving at Wembley said: "It was like a war zone, never seen anything like it. Vandalism, yob behaviour, broken glass, glass being thrown, highly drunk people, very horrible atmosphere for a lone female. Police barely seen."

 

Another added: "I witnessed bottles and cans being thrown at people, children cowering behind parents to hide, trees being ripped up and thrown, climbing on roofs and throwing things into the crowds."

 

 

 

[Baldrick]

What happened to the bloke who stuck a flare up his @rse ?

 

We need a more detailed report if lessons are going to be learnt 

[Big Malc]

From around the time of the first breach onwards:

 

Things escalate with a Wembley level one manager with armed forces experience saying "it was scary, even for me. This was not a usual 'loutish' crowd…I have enough experience to spot those". And another level one manager said: "It was hand-to-hand combat, groups of 40-50 men at a time."

 

 

A crowd becomes violent outside the Co-op on Olympic Way.  It was running out of beer at around 16:00 but closes after a police officer is hit in the head by a bottle and a crowd tries to smash the shop windows.

 

 

The Safety Officer temporarily drops Covid-19 lateral flow checks to ease crowd density. They are reinstated at 18.41. Figures later show that on Euro Sunday there was an unprecedented spike of Covid-19 in the stadium and wider area. Test and Trace data found that 2,295 people who attended the game were likely to have been infectious and a further 3,404 people potentially caught coronavirus at, or travelling to/from the game.
 

 

A crowd knocks down the fence line and breaches Club Wembley's outer security perimeter.

 

Around 70 people breach Gate K disabled pass gate, when staff use it to eject a tailgater.

 

Several disabled gates were used to try and breach the stadium with many children affected by the incidents. 

 

Testimony gathered from Level Playing Field said one fan impersonated a steward: "He's taken [son's] wheelchair and pushed it towards the door…Just as we got to the door we twigged what was going on and it turned out he's just an England fan in a high-viz jacket that was literally hijacking a wheelchair to get into the stadium."

 

 

Around 90 people breach Gate H emergency fire door after a fan opens it from inside - and this is repeated at 19.41.

 

A crowd breaches Pass Gate C after security open the gate.

 

Stadium staff open Gate D disabled pass gate to eject tailgaters. Crowd attempts to breach the gate for the first time. Twenty people gain entry to the inner door but are held back by police and stewards. This is repeated a further five times at 18.56, 19.00, 19.15, 19.44 and 19.46.

 

 

Crowd breaches Gate C disabled pass gate and 70 people gain entry to the inner areas. Crowd breaches Gate G fire doors by forcing them open from the outside. 

Then 350 people gain entry into the inner stadium areas. This is repeated at 19.06. Safety Officer increases power on magnetic fire door locks to 100%. This is repeated at 19.10.

 

Some of the families of England players had seats at Gate G and they have detailed the experience of fans charging the stadium. A father of one player said: "There was a wave of bodies just flung to the floor, including a young lad in a wheelchair - it was terrifying, disgraceful."

 

And a partner of another England star added: "All of a sudden there was a rush from behind, people trying to get through. Another person just pulled me out and asked me to get behind him in the queue. I was with my son and we were in bits, I was scared for my life."

[Big Malc]

The article with the timeline of events:  https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/59518850

 

Absolutely incredibly difficult to read and comprehend that so-called human beings can behave like that.  It would be an insult to animals to compare the people in that report to them.

[Kew Owl]

37 minutes ago, Big Malc said:

A few excerpts.  These are all prior to fans gaining entry without tickets:

 

There was rife drunkenness and drug-taking, police dogs being kicked and officers attacked, bodies "flung to the floor" and players' families "scared for their lives" - as 2,000 people without tickets managed to get into the stadium
 

 

10am:  Crowds, consuming alcohol, start to gather outside the stadium. The level of drunkenness is noted by a London Underground official: "I've been doing this for over a decade and have worked on various other celebratory events, including New Year's Eve. I have never seen drunkenness like this so early on in the day."

 

Testimony later suggests copious amounts of drugs, particularly cocaine, were also being taken. The report said that 47% of 7,000 ticket holders who took part in the review saw illegal drug taking when arriving at Wembley.

 

In addition steward and security staff believe there was a high level of drug use. One Sports Ground Safety Authority official said: "Drug usage was noticeable. It took four or five stewards to try and hold someone down - more than the number it usually takes when fans are drunk."

 

 

The police are subjected to violence throughout the day with one Wembley external safety manager claiming: "One 'fan' just punched a policeman out of nowhere, no build up to the incident, just walked up and punched him…never seen anything like that."

 

 

1pm:  Someone from Brent Council added: "It was like a medieval football match. Stuff was getting chucked in the air - it was dangerous. People were climbing the trees and climbing traffic lights. Things had buckled."

 

 

MPS deploys 175 officers at Wembley 30 minutes earlier than planned. Fireworks, smoke bombs and glass bottles are thrown on Olympic Way - the road that links Wembley Park Underground station to the stadium.
 

 

A further 50 public order officers arrive, alongside 100 specialist public officers from the MPS Territorial Support Group. It is deemed too unsafe to deploy volunteers, and council workers are also withdrawn for their own safety.

A ticket holder arriving at Wembley said: "It was like a war zone, never seen anything like it. Vandalism, yob behaviour, broken glass, glass being thrown, highly drunk people, very horrible atmosphere for a lone female. Police barely seen."

 

Another added: "I witnessed bottles and cans being thrown at people, children cowering behind parents to hide, trees being ripped up and thrown, climbing on roofs and throwing things into the crowds."

 

 

 

Like I said in my earlier post, it really shouldn’t have been a late 8 pm kick off - but UEFA know better than all of us, don’t they ?

[owler66]

9 minutes ago, Kew Owl said:

Like I said in my earlier post, it really shouldn’t have been a late 8 pm kick off - but UEFA know better than all of us, don’t they ?

Why? Stop giving the idiots an excuse 

[markowl]

16 minutes ago, Kew Owl said:

Like I said in my earlier post, it really shouldn’t have been a late 8 pm kick off - but UEFA know better than all of us, don’t they ?

 

56 minutes ago, Big Malc said:

A few excerpts.  These are all prior to fans gaining entry without tickets:

 

There was rife drunkenness and drug-taking, police dogs being kicked and officers attacked, bodies "flung to the floor" and players' families "scared for their lives" - as 2,000 people without tickets managed to get into the stadium
 

 

10am:  Crowds, consuming alcohol, start to gather outside the stadium. The level of drunkenness is noted by a London Underground official: "I've been doing this for over a decade and have worked on various other celebratory events, including New Year's Eve. I have never seen drunkenness like this so early on in the day."

 

Testimony later suggests copious amounts of drugs, particularly cocaine, were also being taken. The report said that 47% of 7,000 ticket holders who took part in the review saw illegal drug taking when arriving at Wembley.

 

In addition steward and security staff believe there was a high level of drug use. One Sports Ground Safety Authority official said: "Drug usage was noticeable. It took four or five stewards to try and hold someone down - more than the number it usually takes when fans are drunk."

 

 

 

 

 

 

What time should the kick off have been if folk were getting píssed at 10am?

[Bannofan]

48 minutes ago, Kew Owl said:

Like I said in my earlier post, it really shouldn’t have been a late 8 pm kick off - but UEFA know better than all of us, don’t they ?

 

And I answered..why the hell should UEFA change the kick off time just because this country is full of entitled, selfish arseholes, hell bent on getting plastered and causing as much trouble as possible? 

 

Unbelievable that you are trying to shift the blame. 

Edited December 4, 2021 by Bannofan

[edinburghowl]

4 hours ago, Kew Owl said:

You may well be right, but do I detect a degree of gloating on your part at this probability ?

 

At least you Jocks - assuming you’ve qualified - don’t have so far to travel when it’s held in England - and you don’t need passports either 

No gloating just stating what is almost a certainty. Like you say a tournament close to home is good for all of us. If you do ever host a tournament though fingers crossed we actually will need passports by then

[Big Malc]

2 hours ago, Kew Owl said:

Like I said in my earlier post, it really shouldn’t have been a late 8 pm kick off - but UEFA know better than all of us, don’t they ?

UEFA shoulder zero blame for drunken half-wits taking cocaine on the terraces, defecating on the floor and attacking police dogs.

 

I can’t believe a reasonable person could read the account in that article and start indulging in whataboutery.

[scram]

4 hours ago, Baldrick said:

What happened to the bloke who stuck a flare up his @rse ?

 

 

He's due to orbit Neptune next month...

[owler66]

2 hours ago, Big Malc said:

UEFA shoulder zero blame for drunken half-wits taking cocaine on the terraces, defecating on the floor and attacking police dogs.

 

I can’t believe a reasonable person could read the account in that article and start indulging in whataboutery.

He's upgraded to Artillery shell see thread somewhere else on this site

[owler66]

25 minutes ago, owler66 said:

He's upgraded to Artillery shell see thread somewhere else on this site

Quoted the wrong one my joke looks crap

[edmontonowl]

4 hours ago, scram said:

 

 

He's due to orbit Neptune next month...

 

 

He might Simonsen's ball