The Football Association have ruled out of the possibility of playing England's friendly date with Holland behind closed doors in a wake of ongoing civil unrest in London and the decision was taken on Tuesday to call the game off and it will be had been suggested that Wednesday's fixture could be revived and without supporters being granted access to Wembley stadium.
The Metropolitan Police confirming their resources would be to stretched trying to restore order after 3 nights of rioting in the capital AND it quickly became apparent of the high profile friendly against World Cup runners-up could not go ahead as planned and there was an outside chance Brent Council would have granted a safety certificate for a game to be played with none of the anticipated 70,000 fans present.
Anyone who has played in a closed-doors game comments about what a hollow meaningless experience it is, said Club England managing director Adrian Bevington and that is before we start making calls to a dutch to ask if they would have been prepared to do it and then you have the issues over sponsors, broadcasters, clubs.
