Paid a rare visit to Wembley yesterday as part of my 92-club obligation to re"do" it as a League ground.
Have they taken some toilets out since the stadium re-opened? The half-time queues were horrendous. Knowing this, I wisely restricted myself to a half of the real ale in the concourse before the game (a quite passable pint of GK IPA served by gravity).
The post-match queues at all three stations were even more horrendous. At cup finals, half the crowd stay on for the presentations, the other half leave - which eases it a bit. And with it being a London derby, nobody was going north - everybody wanted the tube or overground.
I did my usual plan B in such circumstances and caught the 18 bus to Euston but had to beg to be let off after it only did half a stop in 30 mins. I wonder if walking to North Wembley station would have been a better bet?
What did annoy me was allowing Spurs to play a b****y drum on the PA during play. Whatever next? Organists? The only other place I have seen anything like it was Mouscron vs Cercle Brugge in Belgium.
If Wembley's 3+ stations fail to cope with 73,000 fans how on earth will the little White Hart Lane station cope with 60,000? Tottenham Hale and Seven Sisters are miles away.
PS A good 3-0 win for Bradford on Saturday but FC United's defence (and their player's body language) was dire.
) How long has it been going on for?
