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I still think with 100,000 fans on Wembley Way potentially, the police piling in would only have resulted in people being seriously injured or killed.

Apart from the loads they did have all had machine guns :D

It is the usual UK arrogance that we know what we are doing. Go to any major tournament and you have a ring of steel away from a ground, you scan your walk, go in and then walk a long way to the gate. In England we put some small barriers in place about 150m from the stadium and wonder why...

The problem is the police would have been massively outnumbered. And if they had of moved in, what was a big group would have split up into lots of smaller groups and been even more difficult to manage. They had a lot of police around, high up as well filming so imagine their tactic was to sit...

About 100 charged I believe

Yes. I think the drugs thing is being overplayed a bit. Certainly around the gates and in the ground I'd say there were a lot of chancers there. Some were probably not even football fans - definitely a lot of locals (wearing JD Sports tracksuits and gangsta nike trainers) etc. It was known...