FA Cup Third Round - West Ham (a) 7.55pm Friday 6th Jan

jakeashto6 said:
Won't have a game for 9 days after it though so I feel we'll play a strong team, at least I hope so anyway..
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liverpool 31st, burnley 2nd, West ham 6th either Pep will rest a couple for burnley or this and I reckon the league will be a priority first.
 
Trevor Morley's Tache said:
Shocking for anyone wanting to travel. Getting into London around that time on a Friday will be shit. These TV idiots really don't give a flying f*** about supporters. It probably suits them to make it as difficult as possible for travelling supporters, as it means their viewing figures get a bump up (even if it's only a couple of thousand).
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Its been this for at least 15 years, surprised its taken so many to work it out.
 
urban genie said:
using virgin mcfc site, £47.20 going friday afternoon, rtn after 12 on sat
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Or, how about this out-of-the-blue, pie-in-the-sky thinking: MCFC to put on a reverse-style London Blues train, whereby the fans in Manchester have a train laid on for them by the club, tickets included, travel there and back on day of game. From Manchester, to London, then back to Manchester. You know what, it just might catch on. Maybe call it a “special” or something like that.
 
johnnytapia said:
Or, how about this out-of-the-blue, pie-in-the-sky thinking: MCFC to put on a reverse-style London Blues train, whereby the fans in Manchester have a train laid on for them by the club, tickets included, travel there and back on day of game.
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What do you think you will be charged for that privilege ? It won't be £15 return that's for sure, be lucky if it was less than £50 imho.
 
Let's hope the management and club take it seriously this time after last season's disgrace at Chelsea
 
cleavers said:
What do you think you will be charged for that privilege ? It won't be £15 return that's for sure, be lucky if it was less than £50 imho.
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I’d pay that. As much for the convenience than anything else. Mega Bus for six quid, hotel, endless hours on the motorway. Fuck that. My point was mainly asking why City can lay on the special trains for our London brethren (and I think that’s a good initiative), but can’t ever seem to sort a similar thing for the fans living in, er, Manchester. I’m not so wide-eyed and non-business savvy to know why. It’s a corporate thing. But I do think the club could, and should be laying on a train for this. It’d cost them fuck all in the grand scheme of things. I’m lucky, I teach, so I’ll be going to this and staying with a mate in the Smoke. Travel Friday, back Saturday. On the train. But I’d have taken a special if it’d been offered. But I know it won’t. We’ve never done one for any of the recent Wembley trips (2011 onwards) and we ain’t gonna sytart now. There’s a glass tunnel to be built.
 
johnnytapia said:
Or, how about this out-of-the-blue, pie-in-the-sky thinking: MCFC to put on a reverse-style London Blues train, whereby the fans in Manchester have a train laid on for them by the club, tickets included, travel there and back on day of game. From Manchester, to London, then back to Manchester. You know what, it just might catch on. Maybe call it a “special” or something like that.
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If we renationalised the railways and merged them with the track suppliers maybe that could happen.

Virgin own the rights to that route, they ain't gonna allow a special to run
 
thats me out too. I'm not taking a day off work for the League game and then another for the FA Cup, hope the ground is empty, that will look good on the BBC
 
cleavers said:
Its been this for at least 15 years, surprised its taken so many to work it out.
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Our regular Friday night games started versus Ipswich in August 1996, it is not too bad at home but a nightmare, even though commuter and weekend away traffic is worse, and a nightmare for the away team.

Lancashire's T20s were mainly on Fridays for the last few seasons, they are a lot worse to get to than any other day of the week, and maybe they cottoned on for next season with 3 Sunday T20 games at home.

The BBC shitting on real fans again.
 
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