Wembley pub allocation/ Wycombe pub entry
Has anyone seen which pub (s) we'll be given for the play off final?
Generally East gets the torch/ box park and West gets the green man but I'm hoping seeing as 90% of our fans will obviously be getting off at Wembley station some common sense will be used to not make us cross over with all the Sunderland fans coming from Wembley park
Also, after a fair few pubs banned all football fans before the Southend game, has anyone heard where we'll be allowed to drink in wycombe (or not)?
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The Falcon was packed with Wycombe and Sunderland fans before the 2018/19 game (and slightly less packed the following season), so I think they've seen sense since 2015. Chiltern Taps is obviously football-friendly, although I doubt I'll go there pre-match as I want to drink as cheaply as possible!
I would imagine The Falcon will be absolutely packed come Saturday morning. Unsure which pub(s) we'll be given but I would be very surprised if they gave us Boxpark. Sunderland fans would give it far more business.
Obviously @ReturnToSenda you are free to do as you please, but this will hopefully be a memorable occasion. Why the need to get pissed first? Never understood tbh.
Who said I was getting pissed?
Nothing at all against @ReturnToSenda or anyone else that chooses to drink before football. Each to their own of course and I’m probably in the minority. But I’ve never understood it either, even when in my late teens and early 20’s when I was a regular drinker. As soon as I had a drink I couldn’t have cared less about football and didn’t enjoy the nuances of the game anywhere near as much.
Could they not set something up in that massive open area (I think it's a car park?) where they do the tailgate for the NFL games? (Hopefully someone on here has been to one and knows what I'm talking about!)
I don't ever get pissed as I want to take the game in (in fact, I don't normally drink pre-match at all), but I'll have a few before a big occasion like this - I'm in a celebratory mood already! Plus it calms the nerves if need be...
But getting on the cans from 8am for away days I don't understand
Torch was full for Southend, great atmosphere will be interesting to see if club get involved in doing anything at Box Park if that's confirmed as us. Some clubs have had a few old players along and the food is pretty good in there.
My son who is joining us lives in student accommodation very close to Wembley Park and we are meeting him there. So it’s pre match banter with the Sunderland on the train over for her indoors and me then ?
Wembley tend to organise official fan parks in that area of the estate. Normally one area by the area and one further down. These were in place for the League Trophy and most other events but they capacity of these zones is limited.
Boxpark will be given to Sunderland, seems to be given to the West side for Fa Cup (Liverpool) and Non League finals (Wrexham/Littlehampton). Not sure spending power has much to do with it as both sets of clubs would be able to fill the place. Torch will be more than fine though
As good as the torch was pre Southend, if we get that I expect I'll stay in Wycombe as the walk across takes as long as the train from Wycombe!
I'll be having enough beers that I don't feel the nerves too much and have the lubrication and lack of self consciousness to sing for 90-120 minutes, but not too many that I risk not getting in or not being able to remember it properly.
Not everyone acts like a complete numpty after a few jars
As a non drinker, the boozy train journey starting off so early is something I'll never understand. Just turning up in a mess and the inevitable anti social behaviour you reap on those around you.
It’s the constant loo trips that would annoy me. There was an almost constant churn of people running to the loo on Sunday. It was at one day cricket levels of movement
Might be for other reasons than to empty their bladder
I wouldn't want to wish prostate cancer treatment on anyone (including RITM) but needing regular comfort breaks, even after just one pint, is one of the side effects.
Surely the levels of movement are down to the food that has been taken, rather than drink?
Seems a shame to have separate pubs for fans from different clubs, I know that in Sunderland there are no home or away fans pubs, they are all mixed and it doesn’t tend to kick off. Instead there trends to be decent banter.
I agree. It's a pretty sad state of affairs if fans of different football teams can't have a pint together because they can't be trusted not to have fisticuffs
I'm sure Wycombe and Sunderland fans would mix quite happily with no trouble at all
There speaks a man who didn’t have to endure some of the err… less than scintillating displays in our not too distant past
Shocked to see all this talk about drinking. Surely it's "each to their own?"
There is no right or wrong as long you behave and enjoy the game the way YOU want to enjoy it.
Really annoys me when people preach. I like to have a couple of beers before. I'm not usually a singer as I'm not that confident in myself, but after a couple of beers, i cant wait to have a sing song. Surely that's for the good of the team as long as I'm behaving as I should?
Reading all this I hope all the toilets are fully functional.
Having a couple of beers before the game and maybe after is part of the day for me. I cant imagine just turning up for kick off, watch match, go straight home. But I'm certainly no drunk, it just adds to the atmosphere and occasion I think, socialising with friends
Adults who attend games have the freedom to buy and drink alcoholic beverages beforehand and as long as they don’t take a swing at me or vomit on my shoes they should be left to do so to their hearts content without any po-faced commentary .
I always had an enjoyable pint in the Woodland Lounge before kickoff (and on the odd occasion a half pint “topper” if it was forced upon me!) if I had any more, I either couldn’t make it to half time or sat there feeling thoroughly uncomfortable.
Half a gallon of beer (two pints before the game and two after) sounds excruciating @HolmerBlue. Being old and having prostate cancer does at least have financial benefits.
On the bright side, I’ve ordered eight 550 ml bottles of Newkie Brown (for £9) as part of my ASDA delivery next Thursday (19 May, not 26 May !!) and will enjoy the company of my son-in-law and grandson (Gooners) and a good friend from Holmer Green whose younger years were spent on the Kop at Anfield and at Deepdale.
I got quite excited (slight exaggeration) when I saw @AlanCecil’s Twitter post about pre-ordered matchday programmes, thinking it would add to the matchday feel, but lost interest when I realised it would arrive “a few days after the match” !
Hope to see a few familiar faces, smiling cheerfully, as the TV cameras home in on deliriously happy Wycombe fans.
I believe we can dream.
As a teetotal veggie I am planning to get some lunch around Marylebone/Baker St before I make my way to Wembley and shall be avoiding the pubs especially after the game irrespective of the result
At both the MK games was a way too boozed up person causing havoc around them. One having to be removed eventually having got into a near scuffle with someone then falling into his seat.
Away at Mk one idiot fell down and smashed into a kid in the seat below.
That's the sort of shte that gives the sensible drinkers a bad name
The nearest I ever came at Adams Park to getting a bad name was when I became more than usually ebullient in the twenty minutes before kickoff (possibly on one of those rare occasions when I had an extra half) and the guy I used to give a lift to asked me if I was inebriated - a quaint question from someone who never spent a penny in the Lounge. I’m sure our table was at the bottom of the spending league there and, sadly, contributed to the inevitable upgrading to luxury hospitality suite.
It was good value at £120 a season but the hike to £120 a match makes British Gas look positively philanthropic.
They serve vegetarian meals and soft drinks in every pub now don't they?