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I reckon you could be right. Offering refunds to those who want it is the right thing to do IMO. Shame Wembley will not be full. I don't know where you are travelling from, but National Express run a coach from Brighton leaving at 3:15 tomorrow, so if you have an understanding boss that could...

Get off at Stoneham Park or North Wembley (assuming they are still stopping there) and walk. Not much further judging by the map wembley - Google Maps

You cynic! Refunds are available to those who decide not to go. I think you owe the FA an apology. Doesn't look like they're going with my coach idea though. :-(

England got much smaller crowds back then so even with no tube strike I doubt more than 30,000 would have turned up so it must have been a much easier decision to go ahead with the game.

England played Chile in 1989 in the Rous Cup during a tube strike. Most people stayed away resulting in the lowest ever Wembley attendance for an England match: 15,628. I have no idea what they did to cope with the strike though.

No one is disputing that. It is not a ridiculous thing to say. Given that Wembley is so heavily reliant on public transport it seems to me perfectly reasonable to expect Wembley Stadium to have considered what they would do in the event of a strike before this actually happened.

Tube strikes aren't exactly unknown are they so you would think that the FA have a contingency plan in place for such events.

No. But good point. In that case I'd probably consider not going unless the FA took some sort of action to increase capacity on alternative transport options.

Ok, what is your solution then clever cloggs?

Yes I have been to Wembley and I am fully aware of the long queues for public transport after the match. You are probably right in saying that the overland rail network would not cope if the tube stations were shut, which is why I think extra provision is needed in other areas. If I had a...

Well, respectfully, I disagree. Difficult yes, impossible, no. Particularly since they have had time to plan for this.

Where did I say this would be easy? What is your point? It would be difficult, so let's not bother?

I'm sure the would be tube users would ordinarily number more than 12000, however don't forget the FA have held back 20000 tickets so the maximum attendance can only be 70000. Just because x amount of fans would normally use the tube, it does not follow that x amount of fans would take the...

You are making the assumption the every one of those fans who was going to take the tube would instead decide to take a coach. This would not be the case. Some would drive. Some would take the bus. Others would take the train. Some might decide to stay at home. Etc etc. If the FA publicised...

50 people per coach from say 10 London stations = 12000 seats. Maybe in the event of a tube strike lot's of people who would otherwise have taken the tube will instead drive leading to a lot more cars on the road than normal. If on the other hand they could take a coach then this will dissuade...

You have completely missed my point. I don't know how many exactly would be required, but I'm sure they could work it out. The point is they could put into place an alternative method of transporting fans to the stadium.

Short notice? They have known about this strike for a while now. Vast expense? More than providing 70000 refunds? I doubt it. Traffic gridlock: I think it would go some way to alleviating gridlock wouldn't it? Of course it's not going to be easy, but it seems a sensible enough suggestion to me.

Surely it wouldn't be beyond the realms of possibility for the FA to lay on a couple of dozen free coaches from each the main London stations. Be far cheaper than having to give out refunds.

Blimey. That must be 40ft drop at least.

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