{"product_id":"wembley-on-the-edge-the-night-that-english-football-nearly-caused-a-tragedy-9798199007092","title":"Wembley on the Edge: The Night That English Football Nearly Caused a Tragedy","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Karol Borawski\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - 21st Century\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOn 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey didn't. The rain came. Nobody died.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the independent Casey Review, published five months later, was unambiguous: \u003ci\u003e\"We were close to fatalities.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWembley on the Edge\u003c\/b\u003e is the full story of that day - told by a journalist who was there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePerfect for readers of: \u003c\/b\u003e narrative sports journalism, books about English football culture, stadium safety, and the social history of modern Britain.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47968328319127,"sku":"9798199007092","price":1423.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798199007092.webp?v=1782917567","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/wembley-on-the-edge-the-night-that-english-football-nearly-caused-a-tragedy-9798199007092","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}