Wembley Stadium (1923) Wembley Stadium (1923) The original Wembley Stadium (; formerly known as the Empire Stadium) was a football stadium in Wembley Park, London, which stood on the same site now occupied by its successor, the new Wembley Stadium. The demolition in 2003 of its famous Twin Towers upset many people worldwide. Debris from the stadium was used to make the Northala Fields in Northolt, London. Wembley hosted the FA Cup final annually, League Cup and Challenge Cup finals annually, five European Cup finals, the 1948 Summer Olympics, the 1966 World Cup Final, the final of Euro 96, and the 1992 and
Wembley Stadium (1923) Marathon and the 1923 Stadium feature in the South Korean war film "My Way" (2011), though the marathon is clearly filmed in Riga, rather than London, and the stadium standing in for Wembley has an anachronistic electronic scoreboard. John Betjeman is shown standing in the Stadium in his 1973 BBC film "Metroland", though, as John Bale has pointed out in "Anti-Sport Sentiments in Literature: Batting for the Opposition" (Routledge, 2007), he shows no real interest in Wembley's sporting connections, either here or elsewhere. In Nigel Kneale's 1979 "Quatermass", in which ancient stone circles turn out to be locations designed by