‘Irresponsible’: UEFA slammed over Euro 2020 crowd numbers

German interior minister says UEFA seems to have been driven by commercial considerations.

German Minister of the Interior Horst Seehofer has called a decision by European football’s governing body UEFA to allow big crowds at Euro 2020 “utterly irresponsible” especially given the spread of the Delta variant of the coronavirus. Seehofer told a news conference on Thursday that UEFA seems to have been driven by commercial considerations, which he said should not rank above health concerns. Germany has permitted a limited number of fans into Munich’s stadium but London’s Wembley stadium had more than 40,000 for England’s 2-0 win over the Germans in the last-16.