Harry Maguire told how his father was injured by ticketless fans breaching security at Wembley at the Euro 2020 final, leaving him with suspected broken ribs.<\/p>\n
On Sunday night, the England defender\u2019s dad was caught in the chaos inside the stadium and was struggling to breathe. The incident was described by Maguire as \u201cscary\u201d and Maguire says his family will observe safety precautions in future games.<\/p>\n
After emphatically converting his penalty in England\u2019s shootout defeat, the 28-year-old told, The Sun: \u201cMy dad was in the stampede. I have not spoken with him too much but I am pleased my kids didn\u2019t go to the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was scary \u2013 he said he was scared and I don\u2019t want anyone to experience that at a football match.\u00a0I have seen a lot of videos and have spoken to dad and my family. It was my dad and agent who suffered the most. He was struggling with his breathing afterwards because of his ribs, but he\u2019s not one to make a big fuss \u2013 he got on with it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Wembley\u2019s incidents at the Euro 2020 final have been the subject of a UEFA disciplinary investigation opened on Tuesday. According to chief executive Mark Bullingham, the Football Association will conduct a thorough investigation into what happened. According to him, \u201cdrunken yobs\u201d were trying to force their way into the stadium without tickets.<\/span><\/p>\n A total of four charges against the FA have been brought by UEFA. An investigation was opened over pitch invasions, object throwing, the booing of the Italian national anthem, and lighting fireworks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Maguire\u2019s father has sustained suspected broken ribs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":179,"featured_media":33069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1722,985,986,2318,400,178,1768,1767],"class_list":["post-10592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-euro-2020","tag-fa","tag-football-association","tag-harry-maguire","tag-london","tag-uefa","tag-wembley","tag-wembley-stadium"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/179"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}