We have played at the old Wembley, the New Wembley and at the Millenium Stadium in Cardiff. Which did you enjoy visiting the most and why. For me it has to be the Millenium Stadium. It was easy to get to and there were plenty of places locally to eat and to have a beer. Getting out and going home was dead easy too.
The Millenium!!!! Easy to get there perhaps, but getting back was murder. Took 3 hours to get out of the City, so the coach driver had to have a break. Because I had to wait for the night ferry, I got home at nearly 3 in the morning. Give me Wembley anytime.
Wasn't around for old Wembley and didn't get tickets to Millenium Stadium Has to be New Wembley for me, because it was the only one I'd been to and I love it as a stadium anyway.
Cardiff is the best stadium by a country mile. Great site lines, good size, proper retractable roof, good atmosphere, good location, not too expensive for seats. Old Wembley had the history and I have to admit, for night games the atmosphere was amazing when you got the electric crackle in the air bouncing off the roof. However, seats were terrible, terracing was shallow in the bottom tier. If you stood near the front of the upper terracing, your feet would be soaked in piss (Wembley waterfall was well known). Toilets and concourse were a joke, as was the underground and roads around it. New Wembley considering it cost £850m is a poor stadium for the average fan. Of course the sight lines, seats and legroom is good, that should be standard for a new stadium of that size. What surprised me is that the concourses are still over-crowded and the toilets not much better than the old Wembley. The Arch is iconic, but useless and the cost of it meant they didn't put a proper retractable roof on it. It's utterly pointless having that bit of the roof over the goal ends that just slides back a little bit. I'm sure the suites and boxes are lovely, as are the FA offices etc, but for me, it was a wasted opportunity. The Dallas Cowboys stadium cost around the same that eclipses Wembley for facilities for all fans.
Also, was amazed at the New wembley that despite being in the lower tier on the side of the pitch, we couldn't hear the large group of Saints fans singing behind the goal, despite them being only 30 yards away. The sound doesn't travel well unless you at the back of the top tier.
I have practically no recollections of the old Wembley. This is alcohol related! All I remember from the ZDS final was the unbelievable noise Hurlock's tackle on Psycho made. Have been to the new Wembley a few times and thought the concourses were awesome. No queues for anything and loads of room. That said, I was in Club Wembley each time so maybe it's different elsewhere.
Cardiff was a great day; central city venue is good too; wembley is wembley and still magical. We won our only major trophy there (and the FA Cup in 76), England won the world cup there. Wembley wins it for me, either one.
Not a fan of the new Wembley, can't make any significant noise in there - was so hard to get an atmosphere going in the JPT final and England games.
New Wembley, except that taking four hours to get away from it after the game was outrageous, they should sort the road infrastructure out.
Cardiff is down the road and great for the pubs! The downside is the preponderance of strange Celtic types. Old Wembley was a huge toilet- a bit like Fratton Park on a grand and impressive scale. I will always love it because of one tense afternoon I spent there in May '76. The new version seems to lack something. Mind you, that's from watching on the box- haven't been there.
I was sat on the top tier behind the goal and couldn't hear the other tiers below, it seemed hard that day to get any songs going that everyone joined in apart from a few 'come on you reds'. Also the music coming out of the speakers where I was sat was bloody deafening, especially annoying at the end when it would have been nice to celebrate with the players instead of having the ****ing killers blasting at us.
