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Mexico 86: Inside the hours before England faced Maradona
11.11.26, 08:29 10 Minute Read
In England, the final day of the Glastonbury Festival was taking place. On the Pyramid Stage, Gil Scott-Heron headlined alongside Level 42, Madness, Simply Red and The Housemartins. An estimated 100,000 people attended the three-day event for which only 65,000 tickets were sold costing £17 each.
Thousands of people gained illegal entry by clambering through hedges and fences, and 130 were arrested by police, mainly for the misuse of recreational drugs Michael Eavis, the owner of Worthy Farm on which he organised the festival, despaired that ‘there are too many people here and too many problems. In all honesty I do not think we can cope with so many people I do not think there will be a festival next year’.
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