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IF YOU WAS UNLUCKLY ENOUGH TO GO TO CARDIFF BY TRAIN YESTERDAY MAYBE YOU WILL AGREE WILL THE SUBJECT HEADING
I GOT THERE AFTER THEO`S GOAL WHICH WAS BAD ENOUGH BUT HEARD ON THE TRAIN HOME ( WHICH WAS ALSO BLOODY SLOW ) THAT GOONERS GOT INTO THE GROUND WITH ONLY 20 MINS LEFT HOW FCUKED UP WAS THAT AND NEWS REPORTS ALSO SAID THE M4 WAS UP IT TOO. I REALLY HOPE WEMBLEY IS READY FOR ARSENAL`S NEXT FINAL AT HOME AS I NEVER AGAIN WANT TO GO TO CARDIFF
ps sorry to sound like the spy moaning but had to get this off my chest
We drove down and was there in plenty of time and on the way home it took us 3 hours to get back to kent. My mate, a Chelski fan, took 2 hours for a 20 minute train journey. Bring on Wembley
got in the car park (after the match) 5.30 got out the carpark half 7 the traffic on the m4 the fastest i saw before i fell asleep was 25 miles an hour
The trains yesterday were really, really bad. Great Western in their wisdom decided with 2 London teams in the final to only run 2 trains an hour from London. This meant that the average time to even get on a train was 90 minutes. The queue was right round the station and out into the street!
I was unfortunate enough to be on the 12:37 train which should have got into Cardiff at 14:50 but was sitting outside Newport for 90 minutes so arrived at 16:15. This train was absolutely packed and was really surprising there wasn't a serious incident.
Going back to London after the game, got to the front of the queue outside the station and then had to wait approx 40 minutes for the next train. So it seems they were running 2 an hour back as well. There were in fact so few trains a chant went up of "one train in Wales". A lot of people ended up standing all the way back to London.
No doubt Great Western will get hit with a load of compensation claims this week.
I know this is (supposedly) the last final at Cardiff but I would never, never go to Cardiff again for a final.
Boooo.
If Arsenal made the final of the the fa cup and Wembley wasn't ready i would hope that you would reconsider. I couldn't imagine not wanting to go to a cup final wherever it was. If Arsenal are there then i'll do my damndest to be ther too.
Agree wit that last post. I'd got to Cardiff again because this was the first really bad experience I'd had of getting there and in general it's been a great place for us. Don't think I'd consider going by train again though!
getting there for me was fine!getting back to exeter was a disaster!!got to cardiff train station at 5.30 got to exeter at wait for it......................................12.30am!!nightmare!i hate wales now!!
I was at paddington at 7.45,waited over to hrs to get on train,ytrain left just after 10 and took 5 hrs to get there,missed theos goal and first 20 mins.got handed forms for compensation when got of train in paddington,which is quite right. shame as all my other trips to cardiff have been great.[/b]
We got to Cardiff at 1030 just to be on the safe side. Its not as if there have never been travel problems before! I have great sympathy with those who left in plenty of time and still arrived late....but nferguson mate, why did get a train which was due to arrive in cardiff 10 mins before start of the match???? Wasn't this leaving it just a bit tight......
My Chelski mate was giving me some shit last week saying that M4 was gonna be mayhem so he decided to go by train. I was comfortably home by 9:00 and he arrived in our home town at 12:30. Guess i had the last laugh.
Bit pointless now but driving down and parking away from the ground probably the way to go but hey now we can get the train/tube to Wembley.
First Great Western are a fucking disgrace, what a nightmare for thousands of gooners and chelsea fans. First of all the fiasco at paddington and then not to be told after we had left Bristol that it would take two hours to get to cardiff because of signal problems. I had the enjoyment of listening to theo's goal sitting opposite some equally disgruntled chelsea fans and then Drogba's equaliser on a train near Newport (the train was dry as well, just shite). Eventually got to the ground at half time. Then watched us lose only to know that if i did not peg it back to the station i would be getting back to london in the early hours.
I am never going to cardiff again, actually make that wales.
I had the day ruined due to their incompetence and i am sure there must have been at least 1000 other gooners who had the same experience. Bring on Wembley.
I spent a fuckin fortune on flights and hotels because I wanted to leave at least a 24 buffer on each side of the match. There really is no excuse for assuming you can swan onto a train and waltz into a major sporting event with 10 mins to go!
Sorry to sound like a heatless twat but you really have to think these things through.
and first 20 mins.got handed forms for compensation when got of train in paddington,which is quite right. shame as all my other trips to cardiff have been great.[/b]
