What you on about waste land. Could have put it anywhere near the arena. Designated international railway station, international airport with monorail link and enough car parks for 1000’s of cars and coaches. Right next to the centre of the motorway system for the country.People seriously suggesting the national stadium should have been built on wasteland near a retail park near Birmingham? Can't imagine anything worse. Had to be Wembley. No excuse for not having a more coordinated travel plan though, but even then, can you imagine the chaos of having a single station serving 90K people? The travel options for London and Wembley far more suited than any purpose built venue could ever be.
What you on about waste land. Could have put it anywhere near the arena. Designated international railway station, international airport with monorail link and enough car parks for 1000’s of cars and coaches. Right next to the centre of the motorway system for the country.
Imagine if Sunderland and Middlesbrough were there. Would still be trying to get home now
Kick off time was the big issue
Will never travel on a coach to Wembley again, traffic management was an absolute shambles. Didn’t even get a KFC…
What would you do next time mate?
Because it sounds like the trains were a shambles as well. Hope you've had a KFC today to make up for it!
Will be an issue also today. Barnsley and Sheffield only 16 miles apart all heading in exactly the same direction.Imagine if Sunderland and Middlesbrough were there. Would still be trying to get home now
Kick off time was the big issue
Think I may do this next time, if we're at Wemb for a big final. Managed to get on a train from Euston about 9.30 but packed and standing all the way to Cov. If we'd have won might not have seemed so bad. It stopped at Watford for a while, police called to sort something out a few carriages up. Lots of our fans (and Luton) left on the platform and weren't allowed on.Drove down leaving Cov at midday. Parked on a driveway in Stanmore for £7 at 2pm. Out of Wembley once I’d shed a tear at Vik waving goodbye to us. Straight onto the tube and back to Stanmore and home by 10pm.
Trains are fucked in this country atm.
Given how bad every method of transport seemed to be you'll be having to give it two days and walk. Though after that I'd say you'd earned two KFC's.Will never travel on a coach to Wembley again, traffic management was an absolute shambles. Didn’t even get a KFC…
We got lucky coming home by reading some posts at times like this is it not posible to run special trains (takes me back to JH's time) just for Wembley or is there no room on the lines, a) other travellers would not be inconvenienced by footie fans and b) freeing up the system with no tube journeys from Euston or Watford.
I just think although fans give transport companies load of cash at times like Saturday very little thought is giving them a decent service let them stand on overcrowded trains god forbid an accident ever happens would cost those involved a small fortune.
Needs a bit of press coverage. Bit of bad PR and they’ll be refunding the tenners as a ‘goodwill gesture’Got the train line refund. Kept a tenner though. They will have made a fortune
Everyone in the country knows that the new stadium should have been built by the NIA/NEC .
Cheaper to build, all transport links available,middle of the country etc.
But it was never going to move from London ,bastards think it’s England and the rest of us don’t exist.
You could not have created adequate transport infrastructure needed from scratch for a venue that size in the middle of nowhere without eye watering investment. One rail hub, compared to London with rail connections to every corner of the country terminating at one of Euston, Kings Cross, Paddington, Waterloo, Victoria and others, with local distribution across a subway network.
I once inadvertently got caught in traffic coming out of the NEC when crufts was on and got stuck for 2 hours.
Not to mention the fact that people enjoy going to London for a showpiece event. Eating, drinking, hotel options are plentiful. Then there is the football heritage argument.
If they had built a national stadium by the NEC people would have hated it.
Well idk were we second to the womens league being settle?Bad enough for us and Luton. Would have been scandalous for them to have had to go to London for a 4 45pm kick off.
No thought given to match going fans whatsoever.
I go to the NEC regularly and can't think of a single time I've had problems getting away at the end of the night. Short walk to the car and then 10 minutes tops before I'm on the A45. The NIA on the other hand ...No different to the Harry Styles fans complaining about the issues last week. There are problems getting away from the NEC for concerts and it only holds 15,000 people. If it was 90,000, there would be the need to serious infrastructure improvement.
You could almost say them being run by private companies hasn't improved the service or the infrastructure...The transport links at the NEC are far worse than Wembley.
Wembley is on two mainlines and has multiple tube stations. The bigger issue is the railway companies in this country.
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