Community Shield - Arsenal (N) | Sun 6th Aug - 16:00

[Xhavenjoe]

Wembley have to make money to pay for the rebuild

They have several concerts, NFL games, shows etc at Wembley that contribute towards the refurbishment.
These have fans from all over Europe and UK attending and who may be happy to stay overnight in London.
People travelling from primarily one or two destinations within UK and want to get home the same night should be catered for with an earlier start time.
It took my sister over 4 hours to get back to Luton from Wembley a few weeks ago and thats only down the road.

 

[aka blue jambo]

All booked for this .. coming from Edinburgh it's all hassle no matter what day or ko time
But I will support the boycott if required

 

[CatMan]

All booked for this .. coming from Edinburgh it's all hassle no matter what day or ko time
But I will support the boycott if required

Good. I certainly won't be going and before this boycott was announced I said we should not buy a single ticket and send our EDS team to play it.

 

[jrb]

Wembley have to make money to pay for the rebuild

Still? I don’t this so.

The new Wembley was completed on the 9th of March 2007, 16 years ago. The FA have long since paid for it via the fans, Internationals, sponsorship, events, etc. It’s now nothing more than a cash cow for the FA. And the fans are the Cows and Sheep.

 

[Eds]

They will be 25,000 Blues at Wembley and my Grandson and me will be 2 of them. The FA make pennies from the charity shield so they couldn't care FULL or not. Every season fans complaine about the FA cup semifinals being at Wembley and every year they don't listen.
Love CITY Hate FA,PREMIER LEAGUE,UEFA and of cause Rags. CTID

Doubt we would take 25k. How many did we take the other year v Leicester, last time we played CS at Wembley? Attendance was only 45k IIRC.

 

[There is a Light]

Wembley have to make money to pay for the rebuild

They should put on a Beyoncé concert then!

 

[Corky]

Doubt we would take 25k. How many did we take the other year v Leicester, last time we played CS at Wembley? Attendance was only 45k IIRC.

The game was expected to be reduced capacity until 2 weeks before, it went on sale 10 days before with 53k tickets available to the two clubs.

You needed medical records to get in too.

 

[Blue Smarties]

Glad it's getting out there - sick of the FA.

 

[Eds]

The game was expected to be reduced capacity until 2 weeks before, it went on sale 10 days before with 53k tickets available to the two clubs.

You needed medical records to get in too.

Fair point but I think a lot were pissed off it was Wembley again. We have had unofficial boycotts before at Wigan, Birmingham and Bolton before, hopefully an official one will make the powers that be think twice again.

 

[MCFC1993]

A better kick off time and I would have been planning my trip there.

More than happy to support a boycott, saves me £100-£200 and tells the cunts at the FA to start respecting match going fans. Particularly fans of clubs not based in London!