14 March 2007

Twickenham

Took my son Chris (13) to Twickenham last Sunday. Great day out we flew down from Leeds Bradford, spent an hour at the Imperial War Museum and headed for Twickenham on the 11:25 to Twickenham.
The train was packed to be the point of being unsafe, but we got there safely. Of course we really enjoyed the game (England won yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!), but you can only describe the crowd (80,000) exit at the game as total chaos.
Just waiting for a free bus to richmond saw a number of near tramplings and car near misses with pedestrians. Police and stewards were trying hard, but any plans they were implementing were swamped by simply the huge number of people exiting the stadium within 30 mins of the end of the game.
Managed to get Heathrow to get our return flight, by an illegal exit from Heston services by our resouceful cabbie and his Sat Nav, encouraged by me waving the cash (M4 was closed because of an accident).
It does not bode well for 2012 or the new Wembley.......I hear the new Emirates is not good either.

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