Another Trip to Wembley

An easy game for England.

It had been a mad dash to get to the section in the stadium where we were sitting.

In the old days, the walk up Wembley Way (now renamed Olympic Way for the sake of a two week event in 2012) and into the stadium was straight. Now, you get to the stadium only to find that you then have to walk halfway around it to even get to the turnstiles.

Something to do with crowd control. Bah!

So unfortunately we arrived a few minutes into the game, just in time to see the big screen replay of England's first goal.

We got seats that were closer to the pitch than any of my previous visits, so this made up for it somewhat, though the crowd in my section (bar two mouthy chaps behind us) was quite quiet.

A solid performance from the team but the England that the fans wanted to see forgot to turn up for the second half having already got three goals up by this point and fans streamed out in their hundreds when the game still had 15 minutes to go.

Frank Lampard got booed, though not by me, even though I do think he doesn't fit into the England side, Gareth Barry got Man of the Match, though I'm not entirely sure why. Gerrard was everywhere on the pitch, taking his leadership duties seriously.

We left after the final whistle and had fun joining the now always present post-match 30 minute queue back to Wembley Park Station, dodging police horse poo as we went!

One of these days I may try the bus route home...