English football fans make Wembley return in League Cup final
Al Jazeera
Some 8,000 people – all tested for COVID-19 – were in the stadium to watch Manchester City beat Tottenham Hotspur.
It almost felt like old times at Wembley on Sunday as a crowd of 8,000 watched Manchester City beat Tottenham Hotspur in English football’s League Cup final – the biggest attendance at a UK sporting event since the COVID-19 pandemic began more than a year ago. As part of the British government’s Events Research Programme (ERP), the final was being used as a pilot event to test the safe return of supporters. And while the 2,000 fans permitted from each club, plus 4,000 local residents, looked a little lost in the vast expanses of the 90,000-seater stadium, the sound of them making their voices heard was an uplifting one.More Related News