“Euro 2020, a final on the brink of chaos” on Netflix: the story of the English fiasco

Available this Wednesday, May 8, Netflix offers an eye-opening British documentary about the excesses that took place three years ago on the sidelines of the last European Championship match. Euro 2020: Finals on the Edge of Chaos shows the frenzy that engulfed the crowds around and inside the iconic Wembley Stadium, north-west of London.

55 years. That’s how long it’s been since England’s last Three Lions final. So, on July 11, 2021, the final between England and Italy evokes all the heat and all the tension. In this country, where football was born, the entire population stands behind their team at the coronation gates.

On the road from St. George’s Park, where the players train, to Wembley Stadium, fans joyfully applaud the passing bus with the players. But about 6,000 fans who had arrived without tickets forced their way, attacking one of the 23,000 seats left vacant due to Covid restrictions. Assaults, drugs, alcohol, racism… The failures continue.

Rhythmic, intense and sensational, yet shocking and disturbing, this documentary tells the true story of this fiasco through the testimony of some of the actors, security personnel, ordinary spectators, scammers and political leaders.

With Gianluca next to him, accompanied by his granddaughter Maia, an Italian living in England who came to proudly support the Italian selection, or Liam Boylan, director of Wembley Stadium, in the crisis department, the atmosphere in this story is one of euphoria, a little suffocating. the beginning gives way to fear and defeat on the field…