Wembley, Wembley

I haven't posted for a while but this is an event of note. The first match at the new Wembley is England v Italy (Under 21's) Brent council are setting a 60,000 limit for testing the H & S provisions. The Fa organised (oxymoron) the ticket sales online and telephone. I thought it would be great to go and see this wonderful new stadium.
So we logged onto the site just before 3pm then a map of stadium was displayed and thebooking icon appeared then nothing server error then a message due to heavy demand the site has close try again later.

So we did around 6.00 we were in the queue on the laptop and the PC, Linda had 50 minutes to wait 7000+ in the queue I was on the PC at about 9000 over an hour wait. Do not refresh the screen so we sat there keeping an eye on things.

Then Linda finally made it less than 1 minute unbelievablly it crashed error message what a waste of time. The PC had also suffered the same fait.

We did make a few phone calls but as we were unaware of the cost gave up. I trid the PC several times and suddenly I got through 3 minutes to wait.


the booking screen came up filled in the details requested 4 (the maximum ) tickets but rejected goodness what had I done wrong I even by luck had the required fan number which the had told us was going to be necessary. I then altered my order no to 3 and hey prestoI had a reference number for 3 tickets!!

Jordan & his dad (my son will really enjoy this experience if the FA can dispatch the tickets open the gates and stage the match.

This will be a real idbi moment when we are actually there watching the game. In the worlds largest stadium with covered seats