Quote: infamous grouse "Going to Wembley is a bit like a visit to the dentist!
You dont really want to go but you know you have to because your team is in the final.
It is not a pleasant day out.
Depending on where you are from it is an 8 to 10 hour round trip including a stop at a motorway services where you queue for the toilets and get ripped off if you want to buy food of drink.
When you arrive the area surrounding the stadium is scruffy and dirty certainly not a place you would choose to visit.
The stadium itself is fine after you have you have been through security, had your bag searched and empty you pockets then go through a scanner.
There are plenty of outlets in side serving a variety of drinks an food but again expect to get ripped off.
Of course you could make a weekend of it and couple the delights of Wembley with a trip to our nation's capital but you would need to have more money than sense.
The cup is a valued trophy to the fans of the clubs involved but the days of a lot of neutral fans making the journey for an enjoyable day or weekend are long gone.
Basically the "magic" of Wembley has gone, it's now just a big stadium in a scruffy area of a rip-off city'"
I understand the sentiments behind your post and most of is absolutely right.
However, other sports seem more than capable of filling Wembley and while some round ball fans may not have to travel quite as far, although plenty go longer distances, we are supposed to be celebrating the sport and have a final between the two best cup sides of that season and as a sport, once a year, we should be able to fill the country's major sporting arena.
It never used to be a problem and people generally are better off now than they were 20/30 years ago.
There is little doubt that everything in our sport in now focused towards the GF, which has taken much of the sparkle away from the cup.
But, Wembley is still where it used to be, the area around Wembley is actually improved over recent years and the rip off prices are similar at EVERY major venue in the country.
One thing for sure is that nobody can blame Catalan for the poor attendance and to say that the contest was between the two clubs sitting first and second in the comp, who both like to boast about their support, not to mention the cracking weather etc, there are very few genuine excuses for the attendance.
