World Cup qual. - Wembley officials deny damage

Eurosport - Wed, 12 Nov 13:19:00 2008

Wembley Stadium officials have denied reports that storms ripped a 40-foot crack in the home of English football.

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According to workers at the state-of-the-art facility, which opened in 2007, heavy winds and torrential rain battered the £827 million development and left a 1.5-inch split in the walls on Monday.

"The ground shook. There were people in the lifts and they were terrified," said an employee.

"Then the major crack appeared from the floor of level one and snaked up to level four. It happened in an instant and wasn't something that had been growing over weeks or months."

But a spokesman for Wembley has moved to deny any damage was done.

"There was some minor movement in the building on Monday morning. Our engineers have reviewed the situation and reports indicate that this has been caused by natural settling," read a statement.

"As with all large structures, the stadium has been designed with movement tolerance factored in. Reports suggesting that there is a crack in the stadium as a result of this movement are incorrect.

"It's business as usual and the stadium remains fully operational."

Will Tidey / Eurosport

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  1. haha 827 million dwn the piss hole

    From eddielawlor@..., on Wed 12 Nov 3:25PM

  2. We should be glad there were no casualties

    From djackal, on Wed 12 Nov 3:24PM

  3. It's embarrassing to be British listening to all the anti-european / anti foreign @#$% going on here

    From Tom, on Wed 12 Nov 3:23PM

  4. ha ha ha GIRFUY Ha Ha Ha

    From Lucifer, on Wed 12 Nov 3:22PM

  5. The parking is good though !!!!!!!

    From jameshand007, on Wed 12 Nov 3:18PM

  6. Dunno about the polly filler , i tried that with a 40ft crack in my room ....and she nearly killed me

    From Ian, on Wed 12 Nov 3:17PM

  7. please explain how you can take/invade a country fair and square?your queens german by the way,germans won last game on old wembley pitch and your great british manager quit in tears in the toilet,great bulldog spirit!@#$% more like

    From patrick, on Wed 12 Nov 3:17PM

  8. it will be ok put some pollyfilla in it !!!!!

    From DAVID, on Wed 12 Nov 3:16PM

  9. I dinnae care either drfelectrical - over-rated home for an over-rated team!

    From Colin, on Wed 12 Nov 3:13PM

  10. Hear the "CRACK" dealers are plentiful around wembley at the moment.LOL

    From t, on Wed 12 Nov 3:12PM

  11. the moral of this story is that teejo t is a tit...clear as daylight. boom!

    From ben140285, on Wed 12 Nov 3:06PM

  12. they should have converted the millienium stadium it was partly built and better placed Good old Aussie they'll sell you anything...lolllllllllll

    From B, on Wed 12 Nov 3:05PM

  13. All this leads to a major problem in Poland. When a polish toilet gets blocked, there are no plumbers available to fix it. They are all in England and most of them in Peterbrough, where you can a house call in 17 seconds flat. Meanwhile back in Poland, the whole country stinks to high heaven. Some would say it did before the plumbers all left, but I will give the Poles the benefit of the doubt. Just think we declared war on Hitler because he invaded Poland, we did it for them. Now they hate us. Guess we offended their machismo. Not difficult as most of the men are just like women anyway

    From walkingsex1, on Wed 12 Nov 3:05PM

  14. if there is a crack in the walls of Wembley all they have to do is get some poly filler and fill it in

    From rocky_robin2000, on Wed 12 Nov 3:05PM

  15. If you think a 40ft crack is minor we have the french coming to build a nuclear power plant. be intresting to see if a 40ft is a minor thing.

    From Snappie, on Wed 12 Nov 3:00PM

  16. Erm,

    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.....

    We took it fair and square

    From Jay, on Wed 12 Nov 2:59PM

  17. Don't get upset by anti English comments, these are just silly people jealous of our success as a country. They don't even know that in Germany, English construction workers are paid a premium, they even made a tv series about it. Wembley was build by cheap eastern european labourers employed by an Australian company that built Wembley.

    The FA were total fools to give the contract to an Australian in the first place, whilst British Architects are employed all over the world, engineering some of the biggest contstruction projects in history. The best is not the cheapest, and we are the best, not the cheapest

    From walkingsex1, on Wed 12 Nov 2:58PM

  18. So what a crack has appeared. That what happens in new buildings, houses and stadiums.

    No big deal, still the best stadium in the world.

    All the 'foreigners' commenting... why dont you clear off, you are boring.

    Many thanks

    From PaulC, on Wed 12 Nov 2:57PM

  19. Be as well fall down
    You played better in Wales anyway !!!!!!!!!

    From craig.mackay99, on Wed 12 Nov 2:56PM

  20. Northern Ireland is part of the UK,Go to an Orange Lodge and tell them it,s not

    From drfelectrical@..., on Wed 12 Nov 2:56PM
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