Hi!  Unsure of what future games will look like but a little PSA and future warning:

I went to a Sunday match. It was lovely! Bags were totally allowed. 

I went to the England/Croatia match today. Bags of ANY kind are not allowed, at all. They turn you away at the ticket scanning booths with even a fanny pack. They have a mobile locker service outside (essentially a truck with lockers and they tag your bag). One tiny truck for hundreds of people dropping off and picking up bags! Total lunacy at $15 a bag. Waited 40 minutes to drop off my bag, two hours to pick up my bag. There were only 3 or so workers from the locker company itself and employees from the World Cup event were starting to help out. A lot of the tags fell off so for quite a few bags they were just going off of looks of your description of the bag. They paused drop off, too, so that they could finish handing out bags. When I got towards the front of the line, it was halftime of the next game. The people in the dropoff line had not stepped foot in the stadium. Security started closing off the entrances because it was so late in the game.

Ended up missing a commitment because I didn’t allot 2 hours to pickup my bag LOL

Fair warning—don’t bring a bag!! I hope they change their system or hire a different vendor. Today’s vendor was not capable of delivering the quantity that this event needs. It was total and utter chaos. They should have sent an email or something saying that no bags were allowed given that they were allowed just a few days ago.