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Surely he won't be in attendance, given the timeline he's set himself?

Yeah, I'm prepped for that. Going into Waterloo so I'll get breakfast/brunch and then be in the pubs from midday.

Per my most recent post on the main Wembley thread, the Saints ticket site must have provided the wrong address to the third party sender. Mine's arrived at my account's primary address, as opposed to the address I entered at checkout. I'm glad to have the physical souvenir, but bloody hell. Digital distribution would've been so much easier.

Fucking hell, Saints. My account's primary address is set to my flat, but on booking I set for the ticket to go to my girlfriend's house (given I'm there more than 'home' currently). Checked the post at home and lo & behold, there's the ticket. Could be interesting for anybody in the same boat if the addresses aren't close to each other...

I was looking at a mini crawl of Hop Locker (South Bank), then (in as-yet undefined order) The Harp, Craft Beer Co Covent Garden and The Lyric. Then on to Marylebone for the train to Wembley.

Ideally no earlier than 2pm, for me. Would prefer to booze in the city and just arrive in time for the buildup. Although if my ticket doesn't turn up soon my hand may be forced on earlier.

Good point - had in my head that Saturday post isn't a thing any more. That's what comes of a mindset too focussed on commerical post & couriers. Clearly need a holiday. 😅

Hmm, bought mine first thing Sunday and no sign yet (Southampton-based). Two more postal days yet, granted. But the club do love inflicting additional pain (and workload) upon themselves, don't they?

I've bought a ticket from Airport to Wembley Stadium itself, but there's changes at Waterloo and Marylebone so I'll likely break the journey at one or t'other. Plenty of good options on the South Bank so may start there, crawl up through Covent Garden/Soho and pick the journey back up at Marylebone. Considered doing the Bermondsey Beer Mile as that's easy to get to from Waterloo (and links well with Wembley via the Jubilee line), but things won't be open early enough to take advantage before the match.

If that's being presented as a barrier to entry, I'd be impressed to hear a better option. Denham (mentioned above) is on the exact same line, so pending where people are coming from it may be easier. I just preferred Gerrard's Cross when I last travelled as it seemed a bit less faffy than getting into Denham.

Gerrard's Cross is a fantastic pick to the north of Wembley. Big car park at the station and only a 15 minute Chiltern train direct to Wembley Stadium station. That's what I did for the JPT.

I was only really looking in the lower tier blocks behind the goal (so 132 to 135-ish), but they were getting snapped up quickly. Checked out at 10am and already by then you were looking at the cheaper standing tickets having gone and most of the seats left being right down the front. Managed to get in the center of 134, but can't imagine those areas will last until tomorrow.

All well and good when there's clear time and space for the logistics. Regardless of utilising this third party company, do you then have full faith in the postal system such that all tickets will arrive correctly and on time? I don't.

I know the club's reasoning. But it still comes back to what I said - they've inflicted it upon themselves by not utilising digital/print at home.

No problems with the queue here, but £3.40 booking fee seemed an unnecessary sting. As did having to pay for postage, which we don't normally. Why in the name of all things common sense didn't we go digital like Leeds?!

Still eerily quiet during the less certain moments. Room for improvement. And the less said about those that ran on at the end...

Have hit the critical mass of 'nothing else useful is getting done today'. Home for some lunch and then onto the beers, methinks. (He says, having already cracked into his first of the day).

Fill it with Dancing Man beer. Consistently having them as a drinks option in the Northam has been a revelation. Owned by a local guy and they brew consistently fantastic liquid.

The same did occur to me, but on the beer point, kegs will have a lifespan of a year. And given we the stadium gets through about £20k of liquid per match I can't imagine much of it sits around for long. Not to say that greater footfall for longer won't increase revenue. But that's somebody's literal job - so I'm only surprised it's not been attempted sooner.

The insecure gatekeeping of supposed rights and wrongs of support is at least as nauseating as the ultras stuff. Especially on here, with the same few voices going on and on and on about it. It's just a few over-enthusiastic kids. 🤷‍♂️ Football's for everyone. It follows that not all will approach matchdays exactly as you do.

Woke from a dream in the early hours in which we were 4-1 up before half time. Our 4th was a deliciously scrappy, force-it-over-the-line effort. Chance would be a fine thing...

Assuming prices are broadly similar across the stadium, I'm happy enough with £30 (it seems to be the going rate?) Good opportunity to use up any Ticket Exchange credit, too.

I'm surprised the club are seemingly just lobbing rails in front of the existing seats. Most Premier League clubs seem to be going down the fold-flat 'rail seating' route with their trials & rollouts. Granted, they'll have potential European football to consider (and so are more likely to seek to meet UEFA specifications). But it seems a bit shortsighted to do this half-arsed.

I had to work the 2nd leg - but at Southampton Uni Student's Union, so it was on all of the big screens. Probably one of the most horrible, powerless ways to witness it. The atmosphere was decent, though I could only watch in snippets until the penalty shootout. The stunned silence after Idiakez's miss lives with me; a crushing moment in itself, but also the widespread feeling that things were only going to get worse.

Do they? I saw the bolt-on page but there was a button to simply proceed to checkout if you didn't want any of them. Granted I was on a desktop, so perhaps different if you were using phone or tablet.