A mate of mine has just forwarded me a text he received this morning from a friend who has a brother who works for the Plod in London
That text says it is a 5.30ko & Latics have been allocated the east end of the stadium
give or take 15 mins either side of tea time…it’s definetly saturday…….(ESPN)….less viewers in uk compared to ITV1, BUT, more around the world :cheer: :cheer:
well if thats the case the trains out the question, could go extra time penalties . The last ones back for Wigan is 8;30ish unless you take other train routes back.
I always thought it’d be the saturday but not that KO time
On the plus side it means I don’t have to get up at 4am to get to Piccadilly for around 6am & it allows some decent suppin time
On the downside I wanted to go on the train & a 5.15-5.30 kick off means that if it went to pens I’d have about 30-45 minutes to get out of the ground, down wembley way & on to the tube to euston which aint gonna happen
We knew this game was going to be arranged for the benefit of TV companies. If they’re going to do this to fans, the FA should include free B&B in the price of the tickets.
Last year, the Cup Final itself kicked off at 5.15pm, Saturday 5 May 2012. The Liverpool fans had to get home after that.
Say kick-off 5.30
Full time 7.30
Extra time ends 8.00
Penalties end 8.15
The last train back to Wigan is;
dep 19:58 Wembley Central [WMB] arr Watford Junction [WFJ] 20:28
dep 20:46 Watford Junction [WFJ] arr Wigan North Western [WGN] 23:04
If you left at the final whistle and ran to the station, you could just catch that. But it won’t carry 30,000 passengers, more like 500.
Confirmation at 2pm today:
Sat 13th KO 17:15 – Wigan (east) v Millwall (west)
Sun 14th KO 16:00 – Chelsea or Scum (east) v Man City (west)
That has come from Brent police to the Landlord of the Green Man, who rang me straight away.
(from bluemoon, not me)
Looking at the plan of the stadium & directions to the pubs I would guess that Latics allocated boozer woudl be The Torch.
Its alreet & there’s plenty of room out the front if the weather is decent to take your own ale rather than pay through the nose for theirs!!