Newly digitised footage captures final weeks of old Wembley Stadium.
It was a contract that will, perhaps, be remembered for all the wrong reasons; unfathomably late and over budget, the replacement of the 1923-built Wembley Stadium was an object lesson in gross mismanagement.
But as this newly-digitised footage recalls, the demolition of the stadium and the famous Twin Towers was one of the few aspects of the contract not beset with bureaucracy and unforeseen problems. Some of the soundtrack’s quite nice too:
