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Wembley on the Edge: The Night That English Football Nearly Caused a Tragedy

by Karol Borawski
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798199007092
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
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  • Pages: 200
  • Original Price: USD 15.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 273 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Europe / Great Britain / 21st Century

On 11 July 2021, England played their first major final in fifty-five years. What happened outside Wembley that night should have made headlines around the world.

Two thousand ticketless supporters stormed the stadium. Stewards were punched and kicked. Disabled access gates were deliberately targeted. A child was separated from his father and used as cover for illegal entry. Six thousand more fans waited outside, ready to surge if England scored the winning penalty.

They didn't. The rain came. Nobody died.

But the independent Casey Review, published five months later, was unambiguous: "We were close to fatalities."

Wembley on the Edge is the full story of that day - told by a journalist who was there.

Drawing on the 129-page Casey Review and his own eyewitness account, sports journalist Karol Borawski reconstructs the events of 11 July 2021 hour by hour: the festive morning crowd that turned ugly, the institutional failures that left the stadium unprepared, the penalties, and the racist abuse that followed England's defeat.

This is also the story of why it happened. Of fifty-five years of hurt that turned a football match into something heavier than sport. Of a pandemic that suppressed a nation for fifteen months and then released it, all at once, into the streets around Wembley. Of a culture that had managed its darkest impulses for decades - and on one summer evening, could no longer contain them.

Perfect for readers of: narrative sports journalism, books about English football culture, stadium safety, and the social history of modern Britain.

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