[Albion] Terrible support, terrible facilities, terrible day.

[A1X]

Realised about half hour before the game I hadn’t bought a programme as a souvenir, so went back inside from seat and asked a steward where I could purchase one.

“What’s a programme?” came his response.

Now, I know I don’t need to explain what a programme is to anyone here, but when suddenly confronted with the prospect of having to explain what a programme is to someone when you wouldn’t expect to at a location where you wouldn’t expect to it’s incredibly challenging!

 

[dadams2k11]

Would people have the same opinion if we had won?

People I have spoke to since, who watch on TV, said we were loud and signing more than Utd??

The result is a bitter pill to swallow.

 

[The Maharajah of Sydney]

I'm just pissed off I got on the wrong train to Hastings..

With a Username like that is it really that surprising ?

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

Fuming about how many people left before clapping the players off. Give it all for 120 minutes, least people can do is clap em off

Great post - couldn’t agree more…..

 

[Whitechapel]

Saw a bit of scrapping in the road on the way to Wembley Central……..didn’t last long

Ah, so that’s the fight we had to go by incase there was a fight. Absolute farce

 

[B-right-on]

Surprisingly loud in 544.

The same in 549 . Loud.

Thought it was a good showing for Wembley.

 

[Rookie]

Great post - couldn’t agree more…..

thank you. Was beginning to worry that I was gong mad when people were saying they had to leave because of the music

 

[Ratso2005]

Pretty sure they had GoSbtS lined up for if we'd gone through, folks.

 

[portlock seagull]

Deep inside enemy territory, as you can see, our support looked and sounded magnificent at times. Especially during penalties. All the Mancs complementary of us. I’m as disappointed as anyone but it’s been a great day out, and we should be proud of ourselves and our club.

 

[Invicta]

The same in 549 . Loud.

Thought it was a good showing for Wembley.

549 was decent for singing and the overall Albion atmos!

 

[West Upper Seagull]

The ‘glory glory Man Utd’ over the tannoy as soon as the last pen went in was an absolute piss take and just made me want to get out of the ground as quickly as possible. I couldn’t hang around to listen to that shit

 

[Behind Enemy Lines]

I thought the atmosphere was pretty good, not amazing but lots of singing where I was in Block 134.

But what was not at all alright were the main bars with long, long queues. We waited more than half an hour for a beer. The staff, (nowhere near enough of them), looked completely overwhelmed and didn’t even seem to know how to pour a pint. No sign of a manger or anyone taking control. It was a total shambles. And this is the national stadium. Very poor indeed.

 

[Ratso2005]

Maybe don't get a ticket in the SAFE STANDING section then, the guy next to me kept sitting down, he was only about 45

Yes, I didn't mean the standing section. If you've got a ticket there then I'd hope you were intending to remain upright.

As for elsewhere though, age and disability don't necessarily go together.

 

[portlock seagull]

The ‘glory glory Man Utd’ over the tannoy as soon as the last pen went in was an absolute piss take and just made me want to get out of the ground as quickly as possible. I couldn’t hang around to listen to that shit

It would have been GOSBTS had we won, it’s normal now to belt out the winning clubs anthem. Don’t get be wrong, I loath this sort of modern shite and would rather they let the fans celebrate / natural noise. But the cocks who run the game decide otherwise now. Annoying ain’t it?

 

[AmexRuislip]

I'd like to thank the Albion fan, who stood out today, trying to get the fans singing.
He was bald, tanned and wearing a salmon pink jumper.
His efforts were bordering on like he was directing traffic in some South American despot, all those flailing arm signals.

 

[indy3050]

Just got home and I enjoyed the atmosphere up the top where we were sat, the view was amazing and had the result gone our way I might be able to gloss over the terrible transport, laughable toilet facilities, CANS of Budweiser and the prices. I’m almost glad we didn’t win as the thought of going through that again was playing on my mind at the end

 

[Hotchilidog]

I thought the atmosphere was terrific today. I thought our fans did the team proud today.

 

[dwayne]

I thought the atmosphere was pretty good, not amazing but lots of singing where I was in Block 134.

But what was not at all alright were the main bars with long, long queues. We waited more than half an hour for a beer. The staff, (nowhere near enough of them), looked completely overwhelmed and didn’t even seem to know how to pour a pint. No sign of a manger or anyone taking control. It was a total shambles. And this is the national stadium. Very poor indeed.

Imagine that chaos but 10x worse for the euros. Mixed in with a load of nutters just let off the leash post covid smuggling bottles of vodka into the stadium and openly snorting coke.

Today seemed very unchaotic compared to that !!! But I still hate wembley

 

[Bob'n'weave]

Better than 2019 for noise but the new Wembley is still a pretty sterile experience. Spurs ground beats it hands down as it's designed for football fans, not corporate pantomimes. Going to the old Wembley was like a pilgrimage to footballing Mecca, now it's like going to visit a shitty theme park . It's like they really do not like having football fans there. Constant pubic address systems announcements as you go along Wembley Way informing you how they can arrest you for having a beer FFS, along with lots of plastic security and deputy plod standing in stupid places blocking smooth crowd movement all wearing their best 'Terminator' face but nobody with a uniform or hi-viz seemed to know anything helpful - any actual cops looked like they wanted a fight more than any of the fans. TFL organisation at London Bridge on the way up was insane, don't know if they sorted it later, but when we got there they were kettling fans and shouting through megaphones while the Tanoy system was announcing train times We had to leave when they started cutting off fans with a sliding metal gate. We walked round the station to another entrance and found our way to the tube.

I thought we did ourselves proud on-field and in the stands tho. Great hearing "Albion" fill the stadium and drowning out the mancs. UTA.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

I’m almost glad we didn’t win as the thought of going through that again was playing on my mind at the end

We said the same on the train home. The 'Wembley experience' really is poor.