Whitley mag

Loads of decent pubs round Covent, Nags Head, Lamb & Flag, Roundhouse and Punch & Judy to stand outside for civilised folk and a Tesco supermarket for cans when they call time. Most people will just stand outside the bars and hopefully just become a big sing song in the streets, be much better craic than Trafalgar in my humble. Always remember the 90’s appearances at Wembley and Covent was always choca the night before with our fans.

Everton’s only averaged over 50k once in their history, big club but think we have far greater potential crowd size wise.

Think Eddie’s just confirmed attitude not right for some games and can’t pick and choose, definitely think this game sets tone for run in and at very worst a must not lose.

Massive game this, season defining in the league and will go some way to answering whether this team is simply not good enough, or it’s a motivation issue with some of our players.

Always think the best bet for Wembley is to drink at Baker Street, Marleybourne, Kings Cross/Euston, or possibly Kilburn High Road when not playing Man U. The pubs around Wembley are shite, though always thought the Torch is better than Green Man pre match if I was going to bother, but scousers have that. Part of the craic of Wembley used to be pub on way in, then basking in the sun on Wembley Way with some cans and soaking up the atmosphere, but Police have put pay to that.

This will be even better than Trafalgar Square should be great scenes again on the Saturday night.

Probably will end up forking out daft money at some point on the off chance we finally do it, would kick myself for ever if we beat the scousers in the final and I wasn’t there.

Proving trickier to source a ticket on the secondary market this time around, still holding my nerve until nearer the time as think prices will drop slightly at some point, in saying that seems to be a lot less tickets our side in club Wembley etc.

Nobody knows until this summer and we see what their approach is, will we chase the likes of Mbuemo and Huijsen ? or show some imagination when it comes to the crunch.

Good to see the club feeding City with evidence whilst sitting in the background, probably lends weight to why we haven’t pushed through any other sponsorships until this is resolved.

Think Harrow on the Hill is a decent stop off en route coming in that way on tube if you don’t want to drink around Wembley.

Now he’s got that bit of PL experience we’ll pay over the odds for him ? We could have had him for 12 million, or paid a bit more to remove Juve’s 10% clause, unfortunately they chose to pursue Guehi for stupid money as he was deemed a sure thing. Got no problem paying for sure things when our income allows this, however we’ve now gone 3 windows without a purchase due to this failed approach, if Eddie is keen on him, Mitchell should be politely directing him to the next Huijsen and earning his salary.

As much as Fefee Le Foo is clearly talented, there’s a reason he ended up moving from Roma to that shit hole, looks very lightweight for central midfield and clearly not a modern day wide forward.

Without doubt they had to move and in time the stadium will help regenerate the area around it. From an away fan perspective I always find getting to Anfield and Goodison a complete chew on from City Centre, on a nice day you could do a few city centre bars now and walk to their new ground.

To be honest something a bit out the norm would be good for a change.

Feels like we missed the boat last summer and stuck paying that PL premium again.

Blue kit with trefoil and home kit with tartan pattern ?

There we have it still pedalling discounted tickets through schools despite going for promotion. ‘Got mine for a tenner through the bairns school.* *Not taking the bairn like, she still wouldn't sit for that long’

Another good local one and not the generic shite like Bruno in the middle.

I do like the roof design it looks quite impressive lit up blue at night and you can see the steel through the glass. It does look bland inside but think it’ll have a decent atmosphere, they’ve got the important aspects like close to pitch, steep stands and a big home end. On our stadium i’d love to see a window so you can view the City from inside the stadium, much like some of these newer US NFL stadiums, but think I’d be quite happy if we ended up with a 70k stadium with an intimate feel like that, where everyone seems on top of the action.

Aye nice from a drone on the waterfront, but freezing 90% of year and edited post above on boozer situation.

I think the stands look steep and close to the pitch, compared to our 52k seats everyone will have a good view and be close to the action. It’s got a unique location and think the overall design is decent, but lacking a wow factor that I’m hoping we get. Around the stadium is the pits though with only 2 grubby bars in the vicinity and it’s a good 40 min walk from City Centre.

Quell surprise Miguel Delaney cheerleading anonymous PL executive saying competition law should be drafted separately for football.

Been posted on here before, but Burnley in semi and when Hughes goes up to lift Cup for Liverpool are what this clubs support should be all about. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGEIocazs4A

The slow version and constant faster Howay The Lads are very effective and not sang near enough. I always think there’s no better defiant song then ‘We’ll support you ever more, we’ll support you evermore, Newcastle, Newcastle’. Instead of waving the flags at Wembley like mutes against Man U in the closing stages like a non league set of fans would do, the above song reverberating around Wembley would get the hairs standing up and I’d have actually left Wembley proud. We were never a fan base who just sang when we are winning, get behind the lads win, or lose especially on the national stage at Wembley.