It’s already dark and drizzly at ten to five as I wait in the queue leading into Wembley Stadium’s L-Block. The gate is more tightly controlled than the safeguards around Boston’s Federal Reserve Bank. Brushed stainless steel, electronically controlled security doors allow me to pass through a metal detector and what seems like watertight doors on a ship. Getting into Wembley entails more scrutiny than boarding the Boeing to Heathrow.

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