We’re going to Wembley!!!

That used to be the chant of successful cup semi-finalists at the end
of their match. You win the semi, you get to the final, you go to
Wembley. What a thrill. What a blast. The most exciting game in
football (the Cup final) played between the twin towers of Wembley
Stadium.

Then they ripped it apart.

Not just old Wembley, to build new, improved, uber-corporate Wembley,
but the whole cup thing. Ripped apart.

No-one gives a shit about the cup any longer. Its more a case of ‘oh
well, there’s no other football on, might as well watch the cup
final’. Rather than cancelling all arrangements, closing up shops,
suspending all of normal life for 2 hours because THE CUP FINAL is on.

I only went to one cup final at old Wembley. Even though it was in 2
parts. In 1981. The Ricky Villa final. The games were brilliant, the
goals wonderful, the ending the stuff of dreams for both Spurs fans
and undoubtedly for Ricky Villa, and the atmosphere was beyond
anything I’d encountered before or since. It was truly ‘magical’.

But now, to get to Wembley you no longer have to beat Kidderminster in
an unwanted replay in a 4th round replay in February. You don’t have
to fight game after game. You just rent the place out.

You want Wembley, giyyus 20 mil and its yours for the season. That’s
what they’ve said to Spurs so we’ll have somewhere to play when they
rebuild White Hart Lane. And next year too. We’ll still be at the Lane
but for Champions League matches we can use Wembley. It’ll be reduced
to about 50,000 capacity because of local by-laws, but if we play a
‘big’ team, we can use all 90,000 seats. Which you’ll kind’a need to
in order to pay back the 20 mil. I personally know 90,007 Spurs fans
so it’ll still be a bit of a squash, but heh, you take what you can.

Spurs are on their way to Wembley… (all sing along!!)

Happy Wembday

A xxxx