Better than nothing but it's a token gesture that benefits a small number of fans whilst the rest will have to pay a lot more than normal for coach travel due to current fuel prices. It's a PR exercise and a cheap one at that that will help less than 10% of the expected crowd. FA should be heavily subsidising the match tickets to help all fans that will have to shell out a fortune to get to Wembley, it should really be in addition to the limited free travel but for the same price they're putting on those coaches they could have knocked a tenner off of everybody's ticket. instead, the tickets will no doubt be a joke.
The city run coaches are usually a tightly run ship, dry coach, timetable centred around getting there purely for the game, even for free its not particularly enticing. I've used a city coach once after a last minute screw up with my usual away travel, we kept ourselves to ourselves, behaved but brought some booze disguised, a couple of random lads infront of us did the same thing but was drinking something that you could smell. some absolute weapons decided to complain about them despite them being no problem, the women in charge wasn't even bothered but had to do something because these twats complained. The people that will take them free seats up I suspect will largely be people who would have otherwise driven down so won't be drinking and are looking to save on costs.
wembley should never host the semi finals but they will never ever move it unless fans decide en masse not to attend. That's the only way to get them to move and even that is. Bit of a long shot and may require multiple boycotts. That's never happening.
I'm happy with the kick off time, early start but not a stupidly early start and plenty of time to get back before midnight.
