Wembley security once more utterly inadequate as man wins

 

 

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By Sir Hardly Anyone, Head of Certain Things, at the FA.

Throughout Europe, discussions are going on concerning football match security, and there is a constant worry that in England, and particularly at Wembley, the reality of security balanced against the safety of fans is simply not taken seriously by the Old Dodderers at the FA.

This is because of the carnage and chaos at the Euro 2020 Wembley Champions League Final where the entire system of security and ticket checking broke down completely.

And the papers in many parts of Europe are now commenting on the matter once again, of course.  Although none have yet picked up on our point that If clubs are to be penalised for fans behaviour then Uefa must be penalised for its stadium disasters too. 

We have also suggested that the FA ought to be shut down completely and never again allowed to run any sort of international matches at Wembley.  After all it wasn’t just a bit of disorder in 2020, it was anarchy with thousands of ticketless supporters gaining entry to the ground due to utterly incompetent security arrangements.

But sadly, football in England doesn’t work in the normal way, where incompetent people lose their jobs and incompetent organisations never get a second chance.  No, in England, incompetence in football is just shrugged off.

And so the endlessly pro-FA media expected and indeed promoted the notion that the FA could have another event to organise.

And as a result, it was no surprise that at least a couple of people managed to get onto the pitch – seemingly not part of any planned invasion to disrupt the game but simply for a bet that it could happen.   The bet is said to be worth a quarter of a million pounds.   Indeed some of the media are reporting are reporting there were three spectators on the pitch at one point.

Besoccer quotes the FA as saying they are “doing ‘all we can’ to prevent repeat of Euro 2020 Wembley chaos in Champions League final”   And that is the point.  I am sure the FA were doing all they could, but they are utterly and grossly incompetent, as was shown at the Euro final held there, and what they can do is never anywhere near enough to ensure safety.

And it is not that people’s lives were endangered by a few people getting on the pitch. It was that this is the organisation that failed to realise that at the Euros final there would be carnage because there were so many seats not sold for that game.

Normally of course a person who gains admission for such a match without a ticket has nowhere to sit.  On that occasion there were thousands of empty seats, so those without tickets assaulted the stadium en masse.  It was not hard to work out that this might happen.  And it did.

Some of us (well, Untold anyway) suggested the FA should never be allowed to organise (I use the word lightly) a major international match at Wembley again, but of course, no one listens to us, so we had a few people on the pitch.

As a result, as the media coverage says, “From the first minute, several spectators took advantage of the low number of stewards present all around the pitch to enter.”

Will Uefa finally take note that the FA is grossly incompetent and could not organise a drinking competition in a location where beer is made (to expand the usual metaphor)?   No, and instead the FA pays is hundreds of millions of pounds to Uefa who gladly pocket the cash, and off we go again.

What makes the whole thing so ludicrous is that everyone knew this would happen because the challenge to get on the pitch was issued on the internet   You’d have thought that might have made a) Uefa think that given their history the FA were not the people to organise the event and b) Wembley was not the place to hold it.  And c) that by now the FA might have got themselves an internet connection.

But no, the first person on the pitch went over to have a chat with Jude Bellingham, and take a selfie with Vinícius Júnior, and then still had time to get back off the pitch and head for his seat.  

Those people who did make it onto the pitch were responding to a challenge by the Russian commentator “Mellstroy” who offered a quarter of a million euors to anyone who entered the pitch with a t-shirt bearing his name…

So once again what we already knew, was proven.  Ask the FA to organise anything and it will be ludicrous and possibly chaotic.  And yet year on year the same group of old dodderers are allowed to carry on as if it were everyone else’s fault.  Which of course is what they always complain.

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