There won't be 60,000 fans going from Manchester mate..we will get about 30,000 and the rags might scrape together a following of 5000 from North West area..Can Avanti West Coast/M6 cope with 60k Mancs travelling to London at once? I'm on the same page as you - between the size of the allocation, the fact a lot of folk already have plans for June 3, and the logistical challenge, I think there might be more availability than we'd expect. The cheaper tickets will go quick though. For Mancs based in London - students, younger workers etc - it's a dream.
Because they can injure one of ours and then have the shit kicked out of them, it doesn’t stop that player being Crocked.Why does this nonsense keep cropping up?
We have a team of lads,at least half a dozen,who would kick fuck out of most if things turn physical/nasty.
I know because I get them from a friend whenever City a final. They go to all the FA member clubs but to buy one you have to state which club you are supporting. So for an FA Cup final there are maybe 5000 tickets in each end which are sold via those routes. If they aren't taken up they go to the club to sell in addition to their inital allocation
My point is that the vast majority of these tickets don't go to neutrals, they go to fans of the clubs playing. There are neutrals/corporate people on level 2 abnd in that block around the halfway line but very few in tiers one and three.
Allocations for Liverpool and Chelsea last year were 30,500. Liverpool were going for the quad so huge demand. I cannot see why we won't get that figure.The football family will take their tickets so we won't get anything like we got for Watford, and for Stoke we had less season ticket holders and they missed out.
For everyone put off there will be double wanting to go. All sponsors and partners, and hospitality, staff and ex staff will want as many as they can get. I think closers to 28k allocated and 5k will be top sliced.
They are a bunch of wrong'uns. If we batter them it will not be pleasant after
Because they can injure one of ours and then have the shit kicked out of them, it doesn’t stop that player being Crocked.
Good move. Lincs FA and the Army FA both came up trumps for that 2011 final for me.I've already emailed my local FA stating asking if they can help with obtaining tickets in the City end.
Police won't sanction 5-30 and are proposing no later than 3pm.Has the kick-off time been announced yet?
Apologies if it's been asked already.
I’m no shrinking violet but I walked out down WW after that game relatively early post match (as my Dad wanted to get back to out hotel in central London and he was about 68 god rest him) and it was the least comfortable I’ve ever felt at a football game. Saw more than a couple sky punches thrown at blues minding their own business by feral scum in packs that afternoon.It was awful on Wembley way after the semi in 2011. I know I won’t be going back that way this time. Once you are on WW , it’s impossible to get out with the crowd all around you if it kicks off.
I understand why people are concerned.
Did not need to, as they did not sing.Did you manage to sing "you're to ugly to be gay"?. Which is one of the finest football chants I've ever heard.
Any tips on what to say to the local FA?Good move. Lincs FA and the Army FA both came up trumps for that 2011 final for me.
We were fortunate in that regard as we were heading back the other way to Wembley Central station and on to Watford and our hotel in Hemel Hempstead so we missed all the shenanigans on WW. As you say Sam, it was blues leaving not long after the final whistle who got caught up in it, and with United fans doing the fire drill just before full time and being on that side of the stadium anyway, City fans making their way down WW were ridiculously outnumbered.I’m no shrinking violet but I walked out down WW after that game relatively early post match (as my Dad wanted to get back to out hotel in central London and he was about 68 god rest him) and it was the least comfortable I’ve ever felt at a football game. Saw more than a couple sky punches thrown at blues minding their own business by feral scum in packs that afternoon.
I’d be staying to watch the full ceremony and waiting until the majority of City fans were leaving if I was going in June.
FA Cup game should be last game of PL domestic season with KO at 3.00pm.Police won't sanction 5-30 and are proposing no later than 3pm.
Probably be a compromise at 4pm but all finals should be at 3pm and semis at club grounds as they were for over a hundred years !!
We left via the roundabout and then Wembley Central station, via a couple of pints and a sing song in a pub which let us in the back door then more beers in that big pub by the tube when it opened. Didn't see any United fans at all.We were fortunate in that regard as we were heading back the other way to Wembley Central station and on to Watford and our hotel in Hemel Hempstead so we missed all the shenanigans on WW. As you say Sam, it was blues leaving not long after the final whistle who got caught up in it, and with United fans doing the fire drill just before full time and being on that side of the stadium anyway, City fans making their way down WW were ridiculously outnumbered.
This time round we're staying in Stevenage so I think Wembley Park/Wembley Way is the natural way in and out for us and we might find ourselves in a trickier situation compared to last time. Suppose it depends on what side of the ground we get plus exiting the ground with the main body of City fans will be important too.
No guarantees it will play out the same as 2011 though. This is a final with two Manc teams, one of whom has nothing else to look forward to, the other of which has loads to look forward to, at half-term, on the same day when others will be travelling down to see Beyonce at Spuds. My point is that there's a good chance that travelling down won't be seamless. Others will be thinking that and it might put some of our ST holders off, freeing up tickets for those who want to be there at all costs. Happy to be proved wrong. Time will tell.There won't be 60,000 fans going from Manchester mate..we will get about 30,000 and the rags might scrape together a following of 5000 from North West area..
At the semi in 2011 all I heard were Gobby southern rags and none from Manchester.
Do you feel lucky punk?It clashes with an all day punk gig I'm going to
Hopefully they'll show it on a screen