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To all you London Reds, or anyone else generally in the know....

Seeing as it would appear there will be 17500 town fans at the green man on sunday, and apparently they only have two bar staff on, and the IPA is off....can anyone suggest any alternatives, either a short walk, or a tube stop or two away from the ground?

Cheers.

the globe, marylebone road. outside baker street station. town fans coming from paddington and going to wembley park will change here

I don't tend to drink in the pubs around the ground, due to the congestion. It all depends on what you are after, if you want to sing a few songs etc. then get to one of the Wembley pubs. When I have done the train journey to Wembley I usuall stop off in a pub over the road from Paddington, there is a collection of eateries in the same street. It's easy enough to just hop off at one of the tube stops and go find a pub; I ended up in a pub on the Edgware Road one time  :-[
The Grand Junction pub at Harlesden is only a couple of stops down, beer garden overlooking the Grand Union Canal, I went there en route to an England game - it was 14 years ago though  ???

Wondered the same thing. Every man and his dog last night seem to part friends with "see you at the Green Man"

Still with kids and non-regulars in tow it'll probably be a couple of Wembley pints for me anyway :(

A few of us are going to the Wetherspoons in the O2 centre by Finchley Road tube (one stop down from Wembley on the Metropolitan line)

There's also a Yates and Wetherspoons side by side at Leicester Square - a fry up and a pint  :I'm a complete mofleakin Deak

Tesco express at the bottom of the hill up to the green man serves ice cold cans and saves your legs!

Quite fancy this I think, my mate also jsut told me there is a wetherspoons nearby as well as a back up, the Metropolitan bar...

yeah its on the other side of the road. it wasnt an option for the play-off final.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKbE-1o6ROM

The Globe is handy and I've been there a few times (the tourists like to take photos of you :) ). I won't be popping in there this time though.

I have a question about pubs around Marlybone. Are they likely to be open before 12? Bearing in mind its a Sunday and most open at 12?

Any decent pubs in that area that aren't Weatherspoons?

This!

The Wetherspoons opposite was closed for the Millwal game as I suppose they didn't want different fans in two pubs opposite each other. Not sure that will be the case this time though.

Also the Globe isn't very big and can get rammed. If the weather is nice then it's best to stand outside with some cans from the Tescos (?) round the corner, as it will be cheaper that  buying pints at the bar!  :pint:

JJ Moons, if you're a cool kid you're go there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqOmIHHf4zo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvBEhyKLHxc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOLWwygdzxE

We were in there last time and it was great. What was the Green Man like last time...staffed properly? I have images of that pub in Leicester when it took 45 mins to gets served.

If those Leicester cunts served people in order it would have been alright.

Weatherspoons or Yates?

Thousands of boozers in London and people want to go to these places

Hence my question on the previous page.

Do people really only drink in these places in the UK these days?

There are last resort places as far as I'm concerned.

Prefer my beer not to have that watery taste to it.

For those that do want to go to the Wetherspoons at Baker Street it's open from 10am on Sunday but will be closing early (3.30/4pm).

Apparently.

Is that song saved for wembley trips only? To a man singing it vehemnetly in those clips, yet barely heard before or since?

bushey boy, strood and nebuliser malfunction in that bottom one :)

Which pub was that?

Counting house

Will you be counting out your money.

As per BR below, good luck getting a drink anywhere else at 10am.

I happen to like Wetherspoons! not to mention it's cheaper than most places and more often than not has a decent atmosphere  :D

Green man not srving IPA is an imcentive for me...

A while to get served and then order 24 pints!....job done.

It usually gets brought out around wembley time yeah, very rarely gets sung otherwhys.

Bit disappointing that it was the only song on video though as we seemed to go through the entire back catalogue of Swindon songs that day, from team of Alan Reeves, to walking in a Finney wonderland to the very last song and a moment I will always remember 'One Jimmy Davis' as everyone left the pub with the massive flag above our heads, great moment. The people who went to the green man that day really don't quite get just how good it was in JJ Moons when people say it....unfortunately it was all down hill from there.

JJ Moons was class last time and I will certainly be going back. By far the best pre match atmosphere I have heard. Non stop for 4 hours. Always enough room to move even though people were queuing outside to get in. And the bar was well staffed from what I remember. Dont get why everyone is choosing the green man over this. But we will all have a great time there again :)

Maybe if people didn't sing for hours in the pubs last time,they might have created some atmosphere in the stadium where it mattered?
Have to admit going to rammed pubs with singing going on isn't top of my list.

does anyone know if there are actually any designated pubs?

Agree arriba, the atmosphere was better in the concourse last time

Are there pubs near to Wembley Park station? Not sure my party will want to walk from Stonebridge park to the pubs near Wembley central.

The Torch

Result aside, that was my biggest regret from two years ago.  Belting atmosphere in the pubs (and for all the talk of the Green Man and JJ Moons, there seems to have been a cracking atmosphere in quite a lot of pubs)...and then it fell so flat in the stadium.

Hopefully the singing areas will rectify some of that this time.  I'm not going to have too much opportunity for pubbing before the game this time around.  It's all about Wembley and the game this time around.  I've completely changed my mind about the JPT.  First cup win in the offing during my lifetime.  Can't come soon enough now.

Couldn't agree more.

Last time the poor atmosphere was partly down to the fact we played so poor but mainly because everyone was spread out. With larger crowds it also takes longer for songs to spread about and you will get one area singing one song and another a different song at times. Something like give us an S will be hard unless a group start it. And short songs don't work, but songs that last for a while will soon get picked up by everyone and I think it will be a far far better atmosphere with the singing area. All I ask is when we song We are Paolos red and white army, please don't start clapping and ruin it. Why do we do this?

Agreed the clapping is awful.

BUT...i do like a good.....S T F C   inbetween

It needs to be kept as simple as possible Sunday, Millwall managed to create some sort of an atmosphere quite simply because they had their one song plus 'miiiiiiiiiiiiilll' that doesn't mean it has to be all the same songs, but just the simple ones. As much as you lads at the back of the Town End like to amuse yourselves with some of your newly made up songs, it's not a day for it (apart from the Alan McCormack one, that could work)

Persistent chanting of 'Paolo DiCanio' 'We are Paolo's Red and White Army' 'We are the Red and White Army' and 'We are the Swindon, we're top of the league' will catch on and won't be finished by the time people four blocks away have had the chance to realise it's started  :nod:

It also helps that 'Come on you reds' is an option this time  :doh:

Perhaps other people need to start some songs rather than relying on a group of people who will probably represent the tiniest fraction of the Wembley crowd?

I think people are worrying too much, the fans who want to make noise are more organised this time. It'll be like an away game with a massive crowd. Plus our generic chants are simple enough for a spastic to learn the words as they go along.

'we're going up', 'you're going down' another simpleton

I await the Simon Ferry song from 30,000 fans. It'd be joyous. 8)

http://gobarbra.com/hit/new-82d8c2fd8a719f7740fda77f5e332483

Love This.