Am I the only one who thought Wembley was amazing?

The views are incredible

It looks fantastic

Yes the food was expensive but everyone knew that anyway and it is at any major stadium

It clearly states it is a public transport venue - from leaving our seats (one of the last to do so) we were at Stanmore tube station 35 minutes after the game had finished

Wembley is a dump, but it always has been, new stadium or not

If we had been playing an other club there wouldn't have been the hostility which spolit the build up

Things are always worse when the weather's crap - imagine if it had been sunny

I didn't have to que for the toilet which is pretty impressive seen as you normally do when Oakwell's got about 10,000 people in it!

If only we'd won......

 

Yes

Better views but atmosphere is worse............not worth £750 million
Although views from up in the Gods was like watching a football match from Blackpool Tower

 

I don't see what the stadium had to do with the atmosphere

 

NO nt

 

It had everything to do with it

The huge gap between upper and lower tiers can kill any atmosphere, the noise simply doesnt travel. The high roof probably didnt help either.

The view was good, excellent in fact (considering we were in crap seats) but wembley had nothing more on offer than any league one ground inside the concourses (apart from escalators but I feel that is purely down to the height and not good design)

 

Wembley is amazing. Nothing to do with the atmosphere or lack of noise made. Just look at the stadium which gives 90,000 people opportunity to watch football. We played well yesterday but nothing fell for us and the Odejayi chance knocked the stuffing out of us

 

As an experience it was crap

What I saw of the stadium itself - not that much since I didn't arrive until 3.30 - was amazing BUT they didn't have to stick it in a shithole and they didn't have to spend &pound;750 million on it.</p>

So on balance, the project as a whole gets a big thumbs down from me.</p>

 

less than 70,000 football fans though

it might hold 90,000 people but less than 70,000 are proper fans of clubs, the other 20,000+ sets are corporate or club wembley

 

Thats more to do with the ticketing policy of Club Wembley seats though than the actually stadium although i agree. Just thought it was amazing, when i stepped out of the tunnel i was lost for words

 

I don't agree with the club wembley scheme and as for sticking it in a shithole, surrounding areas are but the stadium is mint. How can you stick Wembley in a different area to the last one? It just wouldn't be WEMBLEY. Brilliant wembley experience just a shame we won't be there again on the 17 May.

 

you stepped out of the tunnel?

I actually thought the stadium would be bigger but maybe that was me being a bit optimistic.

 

Again, not really the stadium as a buildings fault - completely the FA's. One of the E-On girls asked me if i wanted to fill in a form to win 10 Cup Final tickets and I pointed out that its stupid things like that that would mean half us wouldn't get a ticket if we got to the final

 

I wish! Sorry meant the gangway.

I was up in the heavens and it was pretty big to me. Went tot he Nou Camp last year and felt as big as that and that holds 30k more

 

It wouldn't be Wembley?

That's the point!</p>

This is our NATIONAL stadium, visited by people from around the world.</p>

Starting from scratch, they had a fantastic opportunity to build a stadium on a completely new site, with an infrastructure geared to make it easily accessible to all. Ideally in the Midlands, where the motorways from all parts of the country intersect. For half the money they could have built an equally magnificent stadium with all the roads, rail links and parking they needed.++
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But no - it had to be in London, and therefore at Wembley. Why? Nostalgia? Do me a favour.</p>

It's because that's where the suits with the money live. Do you think they had to squeeze between 100 fume-belching coaches yetsreday? Did they ****. They were still downing champagne and caviar in their boxes while we were choking to death. And then they popped into their Bentleys for their half-hour drive home after all the peasants had gone. Would they bother making the trek all the way to Birmingham?
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That's why the so-called National Stadium has been deposited in a shithole. Don't let anybody kid you otherwise.</p>

 

From our seats I thought the place looked great.

and it was a great view

vulkan tyke had loads of leg room and that something that he always notices: being a long pod.

on the lack of atmosphere I think seating (blocks) seemed very compartmentalised so whether that added to it - but the cardiff fans seemed to do okay!

What surprised me was how heavy and slow the pitch seemed - be interesting to hear what the players thought.

First time I've seen blokes queuing for the bogs and not the women. And anybody try out the hand driers? What G force were they emitting????

Biggest grumble though they need to sort out the coaches. Ages to get in. Ages to get out. Poisoned from the fumes while trying to find coaches after the game

Lots of plus points, lots of negatives but I wouldn't care about those if we were going back in May

 

They could have even built a better stadium for less money.

In the midlands they would have had money left over to have a fully retractable roof, LCD tv's in all concourses etc. The things that wembley ran out of cash to do.

 

The Ground Is The Only Thing Amazing About Wembley

You would think a brand new ground would have much more parking spaces and easier access to get there. The food and drink prices are stupid for those who want it. But the ground is really nice.

 

RE: Shytalk

Spot on mate, I've said right from the start, even before they knocked the old one down, that it should have been built next to the NEC, plenty of space, motorway network converges there, already got its own railway station, plenty of space to park. No brainer really. It was obvious the last time we were there that the area round the stadium was totaly unfit for OUR national stadium, the place is a complete shat house, (and they have the cheek to call Barnsley a bad place) access and egress totaly inadaquate with no chance of it ever been improved.But the decisions were made by the FA commitee headed at the time, if I'm not mistaken by Ken Bates, so you wouldn't expect anything else would you.

 

it isn't our national stadium

it is london's stadium. Let's not kid ourselves into thinking that the FA/government considers the rest of the country equal

 

National Stadium should be in the capital

And Birmingham's a bigger dump and the roads are a nightmare