Whatever you do, don't end up as the equivalent of those poor docile saps who always join the hundred yard long queue for Dick's Bar an hour before kick-off. Think outside the box. Unless you actually leave at half-time on Monday. the trains will be unfit for purpose for you. Make other plans NOW.
The reality is that 25K people with homes to go to, many a long way away, on a school night will be stuck in the middle of nowhere with few transport options. It's all a bit shit really.
Total shite. Just because it hasn't affected you personally. Have you, for example, ever been on the Brighton West Coast line when the schools come out of an afternoon? Hundreds of manic teens running about all over the platforms and sometimes alongside the trains as they pull out of the...
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Commuter familiarity breeds contempt. A train weighs hundreds of tons and although it usually, eventually, gets from A to B without incident, the onboard train crew are there for the times when it doesn't. Would you fly in an aircraft with a locked cockpit and no flight attendants? I'm...
Ah well, weather forecast is dry for Monday. Think I'll be walking back into town rather than have anything to do with that shitty scrum for a three carriage shoebox at Falmer station. It was bad enough after the Boro beamback, Christ knows what it'll be like with a full house and Southern...