I can honestly say that was the worst experience I have ever had travelling to Wembley.
I understand that things like this can happen BUT the lack of information was shocking.
Once the train had been cancelled around 8am, the message came over the loud speaker for everyone to board the next train to Crewe, so hence it came and people clammered on in sheer panic (some even from the
Mayfair train got on). I got to speaking the head Steward who desparatley trying to get in contact with Geoff Warbuton. And here's were I believe the fault does lie with the club. Geoff Warbutons phone was on voice mail!! I kid you not, believe me or believe me not I was stood next to the head steward at the time. Surely he should have been on standby to sort something out if anything was to go wrong?
By this time the train had left for Crewe with still around 100 fans for the Club train on the platform. Mayfairs train weren't letting any official supporters on (even though there was spare seats left from their patrons getting on the earlier train).
It was Pandermonium!
For some bizarre unknown reason there was three coaches waiting outside to take the rest of us to Crewe.
So here we all was heading for Crewe either by sardine train or mystical buses appearing from nowhere, yet no one had a clue (and at that time neither did the stewards) wether there'd be a train that would definatley take us to London.
Just before hitting Crewe station we find out there is a train (yeehhhaaa) but its leaving at 9.32, its now 9.15 and we were still on the motorway!! We make it with around 5 minutes to spare. BUT theres no seats left on it, in fact theres hardly anywhere to stand!! Ah buts theres another train on another platform heading for Euston and theres seats on that, so off we pop across the stairs only to find this one jack packed aswell, just not as jam packed as the other, in fact you could even stand in the aisle on this one without standing on someone else feet.
Anyways we get to Euston and manage to get on the overhead service to Wembley, I don' think that Euston staff were expecting so many fans travelling there, so much so they didnt check anyones tickets from getting off at Euston to getting to Wembley Central.
It was sheer luck that we all managed to get to London in time for the match!!
Coming back wasn't the best either after cueing in the rain for well over 1.5hrs, once again the lack of info was shocking!!
IF we get back there next year, I don't think the club need bother organising a 'Special' train as I can guarantee there'll be nobody going on it.
For anyone that went on that train they'll know what I mean. Has anyone heard anything from the club yet about how fans are to be compensated for the utter shiite they had to go through yesterday? 1st class hahahahahahahaahahahahahahaha, standing up going(plus the stress) and not even running water in the bogs coming back!!
