What a pleasure it was to be treated like a customer, nay friend, by helpful smiling people. I got one of the girlies outside giggling like a silly thing when I offered to buy a programme for half price as it was so near kickoff that they'd have to throw them away. Whatever the other matters that arose inside the ground were offset by these young folks who seemed so willing to help. I could really take to going to Wembley more often.
This, and respect to the poor saps rota'd on duty in that top tier - a line of stewards having to fend off those retarded fcuks for 10 minutes until the police made it up the stairs.
I agree with that, but the stewards blotted their copybook at the end. With the players still on the pitch, and all Millwall fans gone, they were trying to get us to leave the stadium in the top tier. Obviously they had a challenging time with the Millwall fans, but it was obvious there wasn't nearly enough of them there. And they seemingly ignored all the warning signs about trouble as early as when Fletcher scored. Police should have been called in then.
I was mystified from the start why, with so few fans of both sides up there, they chose to sit so close together. If I had a ticket for that area I would have moved about fifty seats to the left before kick off. Who wants to listen to those neanderthals from just a few feet away? I'm not saying they were asking for trouble but......well, maybe some of them were? It only takes one or two to send some abuse back over the fence for it all to escalate. But, apart from that, Wembley Stadium messed up big time there. They should have doubled or trebled the width of that "barrier", and had some security reinforcements on hand from the start.