Confession of the fan who stormed Wembley: the organisers took bribes to let him in. As many as 15,000 people could have stormed in

A few days ago, the behaviour of English fans spiced up the final match of the EURO in a bad way. They added to the traditional booing during the anthems a drastic invasion of the stadium. One of the rioters was interviewed on condition of anonymity by the English media talkSPORT.

Footage of masses of unticketed English fans trying to storm the bowels of Wembley during the ongoing European Championship finals has already swept the world. How can such a scandal happen? Behind the scenes of the incursion, one of the participants has revealed.

“Right after the Denmark game, my friends and I knew we had to get to Wembley. With or without tickets,” the Albion fan said. “First we looked for the turnstiles. The plan was to get into the stadium through them.”

The fan’s story shows just how much the whole organisation relies on one man. “We came and asked one of the organizers if we could go on without tickets if we paid him. He sent us to gate K,” he described the journey to the stadium.

“There we heard the organisers shouting to each other ‘How much did you earn today? I just got £800 from a group of four,” the anonymous man revealed one of the methods of illegal infiltration.

“There was an unused door. People were banging on it and the moment the organiser opened it from the inside, hundreds of people started pouring in. It was chaos, but nobody got hurt,” the rioter shared his journey to the stadium.

“There were nine of us and only one of us didn’t get in. There is talk of at least 7,000, but I wouldn’t be surprised if 15,000 people got into the stadium without tickets,” he ended the interview with information about the number of “stowaways” in the stadium.

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