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Hello, I'm Dan Bardell, welcome to the England show on The Athletic.

After a month of national celebration and pride, thanks to the success of Garrette's

Southgate's team off the field, a large number of England fans have delivered a day

of national shame.

Fans fought with stewards and police as their attempts to break through the gates for Sunday

showcase events, really ugly scenes at Wembley.

On Tuesday, UAF open disciplinary proceedings into security

breaches at the Euro 2020 final. There is a big read on the Athletic that you must go and read

about the embarrassing events and how they might affect England's chances of bidding for the

2030 World Cup and it's two main authors, Matt Slater and Olly Kaye, are with me now.

So, Ollie, you were at the game on Sunday. You were at Wembley as a supporter taking in the occasion. How aware were you,

one, when you arrived in London and two when you were around the ground of how bad the trouble

actually was? I wasn't aware in the stadium of just how bad it was. I saw little bits, which I'll elaborate on,

but what I was aware of from friends who were already at Wembley at that point, and this is sort of

two, three o'clock, was that it was apparently sort of mayhem around Wembley, you know, on the walk down from Wempe Park

tube to the, to Wembe

and that, what's that?

Is that about half a mile that walk or maybe less?

But it was taking ages and people were getting sort of buffeted and people were getting

beer chucked all over them and stuff like that.

And there was apparently nowhere to, nowhere to have a drink because every bar was packed.

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