Wembley really is a dump.

The place stinks, and its lucky that very watery, beery piss doesn't smell otherwise the place would be humming.

To have managed to have this as a national stadium for as long as we have is unacceptable. Our view yesterday was excellent but it was luky to be so as a few yards every other direction was blocked by pillars.

Why moan on when it's coming down ? Well the hour it took to get to Wembley Park tube station is just not acceptable. It's been like that for years and nothing has been done about it. Someone is pretending that Wembley could host a World Cup final in 6 years time, they must be joking. I don't expect to have to be herded like that at a football match anymore, it was the first time Benw had come across it and he wasn't impressed.

To put a national stadium in a loaction that is bloody impossible to get to via car, train, tube or plane is just nonsense. I'm not against it being in London just not in such a stupid place.

-- Anonymous, April 10, 2000

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Agreed. We were saying the same yesterday trying to drive there.

-- Anonymous, April 10, 2000

There is definately something strange about Wembley, a feeling we don't belong there. It's a sense of inevitable, and you can almost feel the ball magicking its way into our net at the slightest opportunity.
At least this game was more of the archetypal rollercoaster ride that is Newcastle, rather than the depressing, lacklustre non-performance of our previous few visits. The highs after scoring were among the best. But it was almost as if it were deliberate so that the second Chelsea goal would be more of a crushing blow, bringing us back down to earth.
For what it's worth, I think a few of the players are letting this inevitability feeling get to them. There was a marked difference in the MAnU arrogance that that made them fight to the end and get two lucky late goals against BayernM, and the willingness on our part to concede to our position as plucky losers once again. The 'oh no, not again. Why us?' mentality.

-- Anonymous, April 10, 2000