Overview
- Wembley’s North, East, South and West stands have been temporarily renamed for the EFL Sky Bet play-off finals in honour of Callum Lawson, Pippa Sharman, Ed McCann and Andy Wall, with the signage in place from May 23 for the match weekend.
- The named stands — The Callum Lawson Stand, The Pippa Sharman Stand, The Ed McCann Stand and The Andy Wall Stand — link each fan’s survivor or rescuer story to the campaign’s core message that immediate CPR saves lives.
- Organisers say the Every Minute Matters drive, backed by Sky Bet and supported by the EFL, has prompted roughly 520,000 people to start CPR training through the BHF’s free RevivR tool and includes multi‑million‑pound funding for related work.
- Each of the four stories highlights quick bystander action: Lawson survived after fans gave CPR at last year’s final, Sharman performed CPR after a 2022 crash, McCann was kept alive by a fellow supporter in 2017, and Wall recovered after stewards and paramedics used CPR and a defibrillator in 2023.
- Campaign organisers expect the renamings to be seen by about 200,000 fans in the stadium and millions on broadcast, and they say the visibility could increase public confidence to learn CPR and prompt more defibrillator provision in communities.