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I got the 8.15 national express from chorlton st, all seemed well and making good time to make Wembley for 12 o'clock. We arrived in north London and hit traffic as expected about 11:30, then our coach driver was clueless taking a series of wrong turns and ended up following another coach (Sunderland) as he was clueless and got turned away as it was not the city parking section, he then proceeded to do laps of Wembley stadium in bumper to bumper traffic in the hope of finding where his allotted parking spot was. By this time most of the coach were getting vexed as some people still had to pick up tickets from the ticket office, some had missed rendezvous with friends. He wouldn't let anyone off as it was a health and safety issue until they were in their designated parking area, wherever that was.

It came down to a decision " you open the doors or we open them ourselves) as it was now almost 13:30 and we had to get in the stadium yet. The driver opened the doors and most people agreed to take a picture of the coach and registration and try and find it after. Luckily (or so we thought) there was a Car park steward who said City coaches would be parking in the Yellow car park section. So off we went happy in the knowledge we could find our coach.

Got i the ground with a good 10 mins to spare, but a great shame I didn't get to the blue room as planned and get to meet up with Doomy, SoF, LAHAD, Goataldo etc etc... but I got to the game in time for kick off which was good.

GAME OVER we won, celebrated and were happy, now it was time to search for our coach who had said he was leaving 45 mins after full time, such a nice driver too! We ran to the yellow section and there were so many coaches it was horrible trying to find and and guess what? YEP, he wasn't parked in there!! We then ran to another car park where we could see lots of coaches, some City, but mostly Sunderland, we couldn't find him there either. We were reaching the 45 minute mark by now and thinking of a plan B, do we just jump another Manchester coach or should we stay down the night???? We grabbed another car park attendant and explained what happened and why we couldn't find our coach and he only knew where it was!! Stroke of luck! We ran to the place he pointed to and there it was... thank god! ?However, only a few people had found it by this point so we had to wait another 40-50 mins on top of our arrival before we set off. We had some woman come on and try and apologise as she had obviously got an earful. She blamed the car park organisers, but TBH, it was so badly organised I am amazed we found it! Now what am I going to do for travel to the FA CUP semi and final?

Wonderwall wrote:I got the 8.15 national express from chorlton st, all seemed well and making good time to make Wembley for 12 o'clock. We arrived in north London and hit traffic as expected about 11:30, then our coach driver was clueless taking a series of wrong turns and ended up following another coach (Sunderland) as he was clueless and got turned away as it was not the city parking section, he then proceeded to do laps of Wembley stadium in bumper to bumper traffic in the hope of finding where his allotted parking spot was. By this time most of the coach were getting vexed as some people still had to pick up tickets from the ticket office, some had missed rendezvous with friends. He wouldn't let anyone off as it was a health and safety issue until they were in their designated parking area, wherever that was.

It came down to a decision " you open the doors or we open them ourselves) as it was now almost 13:30 and we had to get in the stadium yet. The driver opened the doors and most people agreed to take a picture of the coach and registration and try and find it after. Luckily (or so we thought) there was a Car park steward who said City coaches would be parking in the Yellow car park section. So off we went happy in the knowledge we could find our coach.

Got i the ground with a good 10 mins to spare, but a great shame I didn't get to the blue room as planned and get to meet up with Doomy, SoF, LAHAD, Goataldo etc etc... but I got to the game in time for kick off which was good.

GAME OVER we won, celebrated and were happy, now it was time to search for our coach who had said he was leaving 45 mins after full time, such a nice driver too! We ran to the yellow section and there were so many coaches it was horrible trying to find and and guess what? YEP, he wasn't parked in there!! We then ran to another car park where we could see lots of coaches, some City, but mostly Sunderland, we couldn't find him there either. We were reaching the 45 minute mark by now and thinking of a plan B, do we just jump another Manchester coach or should we stay down the night???? We grabbed another car park attendant and explained what happened and why we couldn't find our coach and he only knew where it was!! Stroke of luck! We ran to the place he pointed to and there it was... thank god! ?However, only a few people had found it by this point so we had to wait another 40-50 mins on top of our arrival before we set off. We had some woman come on and try and apologise as she had obviously got an earful. She blamed the car park organisers, but TBH, it was so badly organised I am amazed we found it! Now what am I going to do for travel to the FA CUP semi and final?

GO ON TRAIN

we set off at 7-15, by 8 we had picked everyone up and was on our way. loads of sunderland buses on way but a few city mini buses and cars as well. got to Watford for 10-15 parked minibus up and went into the flag. baz and I decided to get train tickets for everyone and nipped to train station, been Yorkshire people we hassled the clerg for 16 tickets and got them for 35 notes, had a few beers and set off for Wembley. watch us WIN THE CUP and then back to Watford. what took 2 hrs down took 4 and half hours back. bloody M1 was gridlocked

My car started spaying diesel out of an injector I think somewhere on the way south. Only noticed the smell when pulling into Warwick services. Still, made it all the way there and back, so no harm done, unless you were following me on what had become a skid pan.

For anyone driving to the semi or final, St Michael the Archangel is a great place to park just off Harrow Rd. £20, 15 minute walk and straight off the north circular. That's assuming we get 'our' end of the ground again.

I was in Covent Garden on Saturday. The place was overrun Sunderland fans who in the main were a good laugh. A few however were very pished up by 3pm and were spoiling the usual array of street entertainers and promptly got loud boos off most of the other 'tourists'. They were embarrassing beyond belief (even by my standards)

Pretty boy has a good story of the game.

CREW-DRINK-IN-WIN-OUT-DONE

HALF OF THE OFFICIAL CREW

lets all have a disco wrote:

HALF OF THE OFFICIAL CREW

Miikka, Mika, Miikka, Mika, Miikka!

lets all have a disco wrote:

HALF OF THE OFFICIAL CREW

Great picture of "crew Miika"....

My left hand looks like its from a dead man.

Weird.

lets all have a disco wrote:My left hand looks like its from a dead man.

Weird.

watch out, beadle's about....

Nigels Tackle wrote:

lets all have a disco wrote:My left hand looks like its from a dead man.

Weird.

watch out, beadle's about....

My thoughts exactly.

he's doing his Arthur Atkinson isn't he?

Got offered free tickets to a box on Friday - fucking heaven because it was cold as fuck !!
Box was great I must say

Is that Bebe?

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Taken from my blog...

City Women goalkeeper and die-hard Blue Andie Worrall took her place in the stands at Wembley on Sunday. Here's her outlook of how the day panned out...

It was strange going to Wembley to watch City in the middle of our pre-season. Obviously, I’m on a strict diet at the moment so it was a bit weird being completely sober at such a big match! Those are the sacrifices you have to make though.

To be honest, it wasn’t the best start to the day – my lift was late because he went to pick up my mate Chris first who was still in bed! We were supposed to leave at 07:00 but we couldn't set off until he was ready so we were a bit delayed.

The journey down wasn't too bad though and like we always do, we stopped at this train station which is about five stations away from Wembley. I was in for a surprise though...

I was in the toilets and I heard this announcement, telling people not to get on the next train as it was for Club Wembley tickets only. That didn’t stop my mates though. They got on the train and I had to go after them!

Everyone was dressed up to the nines and we looked so out-of-place. We knew we shouldn’t have been on there but no-one asked us for our tickets so we managed to get an express train to Wembley. Result!

When we got there, we of course went to the Green Man. I met my friend Mike there, who had come all the way from Florida to watch the game and then we went down to a curry house where all my other mates were. It was a bit confusing because there were three Miikas, two Michaels and three Meekas in my group!


After the curry, we headed over to the stadium. Believe me, I never ever get tired of going to Wembley. The feeling is always the same for me - I was so thrilled to be there.

That lasted until ten minutes in when they scored. At that moment, I honestly thought we were in for another typical 1-0 defeat to Sunderland! I was wondering as well whether it would have a psychological effect on our players, knowing we hadn’t scored against them in the last four times we’ve travelled to their place.

As a player, it’s different to watching the game than it is as a fan. I find myself thinking things like that and shouting things that I’d be shouting on the pitch. My mates always tease me about it but it can't help it!

It wasn't a great first-half to say the least and at half-time, I was whinging and moaning that we weren’t going to score in a million years! O ye of little faith...

When we scored I went absolutely mad but at the same time, I felt awful because I'd sent Mike to get me a drink and he ended up missing both goals! He’d come all that way and missed two of the best goals you’ll ever see at Wembley!

Plus, because he’d gone to get coffee, the row was completely empty to my right because there had been a Sunderland fan sat there but he’d been thrown out for celebrating their goal.

To be honest, when Yaya scored, I wondered what he was doing. From where I was sat, it looked like a cross and it's only since I’ve watched it back that I’ve realised he definitely meant it. He looked up and just casually smashed it into the top corner. It defied logic.

I was talking to Karen Bardsley about it after the game and we were saying that no-one else could do that from there if they tried. No goalkeeper would have saved it. It was just perfectly placed. Nasri's goal was a cracker too.

Then, we got the third and the rest is history! We lifted another cup and the celebrations began. I know I've said it before but it really never does get old. I know a few people think the League Cup is menial in comparison to the others but for me, a cup is a cup and I’ll take any trophy.

We need to build up a winning mentality – that’s what makes the players hungry for more success. I know the Champions League is a bit on the edge at the minute (although anything can happen with this team!) but I think we’ve got a good chance of winning the league and FA Cup. What a season that would be...

So, it was another great day at Wembley. I was able to see loads of mates that I hadn’t seen for a while and of course, City won so it couldn’t get much better than that!

You missed out the picture. Lets be honest, me and kiers make that blog complete!