National Disgrace ; Once Wembley Was the Envy of the World D, Now the Pitch Is A... Special Report
Mail on Sunday › April 18, 2010
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THOUSANDS wandered down Wembley Way in shirt sleeves and replica shirts on a sunlit afternoon in London yesterday. Men with cameras paused near the main entrance to photograph the statue of Bobby Moore as young children asked their fathers who they were looking at.
With an hour still to kick off, schoolboys proudly marched around the Wembley stadium perimeter in their playing kit.See the full content of this document
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National Disgrace ; Once Wembley Was the Envy of the World D, Now the Pitch Is A... Special Report
Except that, on this balmy afternoon -- with the sky above, a corridor to Heathrow Airport, silenced by the closure of the United Kingdom's air space -- the shirts being worn at Wembley Stadium, the home of the national football team, were predominantly the colours of Saracens and Harlequins rugby clubs
Cast members from the West End production of War Horse parked their bus in a corner of ...See the full content of this document
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