bluedave1894
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Orf to the Chill Factore then I take it?
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FA Cup Third Round - West Ham (a) 7.55pm Friday 6th Jan
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Trevor Morley's Tache
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00:34 Euston to Picadilly - Gets in a 07:59So the game will finish around 9.45 and the last train back is what time?
or 23:30 - 07:28
or 23:00 - 01:59
or 22:00 - 01:28
Probably no chance for the 22:00 or 23:00 so the only real option is the overnight trains, and they will likely be rammed.
cleavers
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They do for midweek CL games, because they run the train.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
cleavers
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I nearly put 15-20 years ago, but went conservative as I couldn't be bothered looking it up.Our regular Friday night games started versus Ipswich in August 1996
squirtyflower
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They should put 'specials' on for all London midweek games or games that finish too late to get back on scheduled trains.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.
The one tine they definitely should have done them is the late kick off against Wigan in the Cup Final
I nearly put 15-20 years ago, but went conservative as I couldn't be bothered looking it up.
Our first game after relegation, we had the novelty of no squad numbers and 1-11 returning, plus it was Moonchester's debut so sticks in the head! City are going up, so we sang; not an accurate prediction.
squirtyflower
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Yeah, got two for one for an hour's ski and chicken and chips in a basketOrf to the Chill Factore then I take it?
00:34 Euston to Picadilly - Gets in a 07:59
or 23:30 - 07:28
or 23:00 - 01:59
or 22:00 - 01:28
Probably no chance for the 22:00 or 23:00 so the only real option is the overnight trains, and they will likely be rammed.
Could probably do 23:30 London Kings Cross [KGX] to Leeds [LDS] 02:34
03:35 Leeds to Manchester Piccadilly 04:43
An hour in Leeds. Long time to be fucking about on trains though.
Trevor Morley's Tache
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That's one long day. An hour on Leeds station will seem like an age at that time of night.Could probably do 23:30 London Kings Cross [KGX] to Leeds [LDS] 02:34
03:35 Leeds to Manchester Piccadilly 04:43
An hour in Leeds. Long time to be fucking about on trains though.
M18CTID
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According to my handy little tube app, you can get back to Euston from Stratford in 26 minutes at that time on a Friday evening so if the match finishes around 9.45pm, and factoring in the 15-20 minute walk from the stadium to Stratford station, theoretically you could piss it in terms of making that last train home at 11pm. However, that's not taking into account crowd congestion on the walk back to the station and none of us are familiar with waiting times for the tube at Stratford because we ain't friggin' played there yet!