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Stayed in the stadium to applaud the team, then strolled back to my hotel and took a photo of the Southend Massive making its way out of the stadium. Lots of Oldham fans spending the evening in and around the London Designer Outlet. Strangely they were fairly quiet, seemed drained, shellshocked and of course relieved that they had turned the game around in the final few minutes.

Went home to Cumbria this morning, Chiltern Railways from Wembley Stadium to Marylebone, No. 18 bus to Euston then the West Coast mainline closed at Stafford due to damaged overhead power lines so diverted via Stoke-on-Trent and missed my connection at Lancaster. Finally got home at 3pm.

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Couldn't face standing still after clapping the players off so walked down to Stonebridge Park and squeezed onto a Lioness train there and walked back from Euston to my hotel via Five Guys. Didn't go back out, was knackered and not really in the mood.

Got back home a couple of hours ago after the flight from Stansted to Helsinki. There was a couple on the flight wearing Oldham shirts. Unexpectedly, they both turned out to be Finnish!
 
davewebbsbrain said:
Clapped the players, made my way out to the coach and chilled till we reached Roots Hall at about 8:15pm
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I was on the Shrimpers Trust coach which was excellent.

What I couldn’t believe is how it is allowed for all those coaches full of people to be held in an enclosed garage (with engines running) for so long. Had there been a fire there was no escape a la the Manchester aircraft disaster all those Years ago when so many passengers were burnt to death on the airplane. It is a dreadful accident waiting to happen and must surely contravene health and safety regulations.
 
Whispering Bob said:
Walked to Willesden, in a bit of a trance, jumped on a bus to Little Venice. A canal side Tap house (where you could pour your own) cheered us up (just a tad). Short walk to Paddington and Lizzie Line back home.
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Don't suppose you remember the name of that Tap house do you?

My journey was simple but stressful.

Phone ran out of battery just as I made it to Wembley Central. Had arranged to meet another zoner but due to the lack of a communication device decided to leave after trying to count 5 minutes in my head.

Then the realisation that my method of tap in / tap out was now dead and my c2c ticket was inaccessible (Knew i should have got a paper ticket)

Saw the queues for Wembley Central and thought Wembley North might have been better. Then remembered that due to the queues the barriers might be open at Wembley Central as they were on the way in.

Joined the queue and saw a family parked in a car right by the train station probably regretting their choice of parking spot. Observed that to work for the British Transport Police you have to have a beard.

Shuffled into the station (thankfully no enforced tap in required) and got a Lioness Line train to Queens Park. I then had to work out my route to get onto the c2c staying on the network.

Got the Bakerloo line from Queens Park to Embankment. Jumped on a Circle Line train to Monument. Walked to Bank to the DLR and arrived at Limehouse.

Caught the 21:09 to Grays on the Dagenham route, then had to wait 20 minutes or so or a train to get me from Grays to Stanford-Le-Hope (catching the 22:00) Luck was in and no issues departing at Stanford.

Probably could have waited for a train that went direct to Stanford-Le-Hope but thought best to get as close to home as possible.

Lesson learnt. Always take a powerbank and a physical credit card. Just in case.
 
Crammed on central, 4 stops and off at willesden, to clapham, to east croydon, back to sussex. Saw the odd blues fan, and oldham fan. I was a bit dissapointed by a small group of our 'fans' who were semi giving it to the police and were picking on a few people queing for the train. Im old enough and ugly enough to not lose any sleep over it but being an exile it was great being among my people in the southend end but a sad reminder that despite that some people are just idiots.

On the whole the journey wasnt as bad as i suspected tbh and certainly not worth the horribleness they put us through with buying tickets.
 
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To be fair considering what was said mine was really good, seem to time all the trains right from wickford to marylebone to Wembley. Then after the game went for a couple of pints and some food in box park as they was letting southend fans in free. After that got a train straight away at Wembley stadium, then a tube straight away to Liverpool Street, then 20 minutes waiting at Liverpool Street back to wickford, that was the longest I waited all day.
 
Maidstone Shrimper said:
Looking at the Check In thread it seems everyone enjoyed their journey to Wembley. Just wondered how folk’s journeys home were after all the hot air spouted by the NL etc about capping the attendance. For me it was pretty much what I expected. Not a bundle of laughs but not a nightmare especially considering the result. From joining the back of the queue at Wembley Central it took about 50 minutes to be squeezed on to a Lioness line train to Euston. I don’t recall waiting any less in 2015 to get a train at Wembley Park. The Lioness train was totally rammed but everyone was in amazingly good humour considering the heartache. From Euston it was very civilised to Liverpool Street where Greater Anglia clearly thought they’d done their bit by running 10 coach long trains in the morning and treated us to 5 coaches for the return and keeping the platform number to a secret until the last minute. A couple of false rumours saw some fans getting on to empty platforms then we gambled on an empty train with nothing on the boards. So 3 of us (2 oldies and a very tired young ‘un) got seats, the other three stood to Rayleigh with many others. So it was all as expected. IMHO it would have been pretty much the same with an unrestricted capacity and Wembley Park open. How was it for you?
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This is why I didn't trust GA, as they did the same in 2015, only ran a 5 carriage train in the evening after the playoff, so went over to C2C
 
It'sGrimUpNorth said:
Did anyone else see that muppet with the awful shell suit top & shorts combination attempt to jump the queue at Wembley Central? Only to be marched back out by transport police?
I can only hope he was a day tripper as I really don’t want idiots like that at our club.
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About 2 minutes before that he was arguing with the guys who stop the flow of people (I’m sure they have a correct title).
 
It'sGrimUpNorth said:
Did anyone else see that muppet with the awful shell suit top & shorts combination attempt to jump the queue at Wembley Central? Only to be marched back out by transport police?
I can only hope he was a day tripper as I really don’t want idiots like that at our club.
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Haha yes we called him out - think the police thought he was a pickpocket.
 
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