The Final: Attack on Wembley

00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:18,040 [tense music playing] 533 00:26:18,120 --> 00:26:20,600 Drug use seems to be happening unchecked. 534 00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:23,360 And if we think the behavior's bad now, 535 00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:25,960 it's only going in one direction. 536 00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:28,440 - [frantic music playing] - [chanting] 537 00:26:31,120 --> 00:26:32,720 [clacking] 538 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:36,160 [all] <i>♪ Just don't want to go to work</i> ♪ 539 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:39,320 <i>♪ I want to stay here Sniff a load of gear</i> ♪ 540 00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:42,360 ♪ <i>Please don't Please don't take me home...</i> ♪ 541 00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:44,960 [interviewer] Final score, boys? And who'll score the final goal? 542 00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:46,600 [slurring] Final score? If... 543 00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:52,040 Right, if you ever bump into my fucking friends again like that, 544 00:26:52,120 --> 00:26:55,280 I will strangle you with a piece of spaghetti. 545 00:26:55,360 --> 00:26:56,240 [groaning] 546 00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:59,040 [fans cheering] 547 00:26:59,120 --> 00:27:00,400 [laughs] 548 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:04,480 - [fan 1] Has he got a nosebleed? - [fan 2] Looks like it, yeah. 549 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:05,880 [tweeting] 550 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:07,840 [male voiceover] <i>TalkSPORT's weekend of dreams.</i> 551 00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:09,840 - [female voiceover] <i>Game on.</i> - [men] <i>TalkSPORT!</i> 552 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:11,520 [reporter 5] <i>Carnage basically, isn't it?</i> 553 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:14,640 [Darren Bent] <i>The cans thrown about, footballs flying about. I mean...</i> 554 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:17,120 [reporter 5] <i>This has been ongoing for ages, hasn't it?</i> 555 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:19,080 <i>I have never seen anything like this, Darren,</i> 556 00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:21,880 <i>but then, we've never seen England in a final.</i> 557 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:25,200 [Bent] <i>That's it. You're here for cup finals, playoff, Championship finals,</i> 558 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:26,880 - <i>whatever kind of final...</i> - [glass shatters] 559 00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:31,360 The story was becoming this real scene of carnage and chaos. 560 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:32,320 [glass shatters] 561 00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:36,440 Bottles and cans are, sort of, crashing down all around. 562 00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:39,960 Full bottles of beer, empty bottles of beer, you know, 563 00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:43,120 with people clearly unaware of, and uncaring, 564 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:46,800 about where these bottles might land and what damage they might cause. 565 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:49,160 - [suspenseful music playing] - [flare hisses] 566 00:27:49,240 --> 00:27:50,520 [alarm ringing] 567 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:53,920 [Whyte] We were having to create a very impromptu medical station 568 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:56,160 outside the Brent Civic Centre. 569 00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:57,360 [indistinct chatter] 570 00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:01,000 [Whyte] I've got very vivid memories of seeing glass injuries. 571 00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:02,400 There's blood and bandages 572 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:06,080 and people frantically trying to give people the care that they needed, 573 00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:08,440 and it did resemble a bit of a war zone. 574 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:09,600 [indistinct chanting] 575 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:13,640 [chanting continues over televisions] 576 00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:16,800 [man] I'm in the control room, 577 00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:20,120 and we could see fans clearly intoxicated, 578 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:22,200 putting their own lives in danger. 579 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:25,840 At that time, there was limited police presence, essentially. 580 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:28,840 {\an8}We needed some support and intervention to try and control the crowd. 581 00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:30,000 [tense music playing] 582 00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:35,600 [Lewis] This is a match that we always hoped 583 00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:37,800 England as a country would be involved in, 584 00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:40,600 {\an8}and it is being totally overshadowed 585 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:44,080 {\an8}by far more serious circumstances. 586 00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:45,560 [bursting] 587 00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:49,360 I'm standing there, thinking, "Where are the police?" 588 00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:52,960 [Whyte] There was a police presence there, but that was the local police. 589 00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:56,200 The main deployment was scheduled to arrive at three o'clock. 590 00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:57,720 That was the plan. 591 00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:00,720 The sense was that the pressures on the day of the final, 592 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:03,840 as far as the police were concerned