Change of tack but wasn't there a lot of empty seats for a sell out crowd.

Sold out for tickets that can be sold. Club Wembley members that obviously don't like rugby.

Thought that myself to be honest.

The club wembley seats created a band all round the stadium of empty seats. England football get this and the Charity Shield soccerball was the same.

Dave Armitstead enjoyed his day I can assure you!

And Johnny Clarke is a Leyther, he was int' year above me.

New Wembley has never sold out (turned up) I understand even though all seats have been sold.

You will also get a few lads too rough to go or decide to stay in the pub, and the odd coach that breaks down.

I think they keep 'reserved seats' empty too. In case there are any problems and people need moving. It was a brilliant atmosphere though. We were outside the stadium in the street for a couple of hours with the Leeds and Wire fans. Banter was quality. Then the police arrived on horses and they were pretty heavy with their handling of the crowd to be honest.

Did you have your Leigh top on jonny.

Yes mate, so did Wurzel.

Nice one, we will be in the Goose around about 4 o'clock on Thursday mate if you still fancy it.

It was nice to see plenty of Leigh Shirts on Saturday, we were playing spot the Leyther!

Starting early then!!! Wurzel's been called on shift so may just be myself and Alvis coming in.

Always start early mate, see you both there, what time will you be in jonny.

Depends mate, only finish work at 3:30 and it takes me an hour to get wom. Do 2 of the 3 S's and should be straight out.

We found St.Giles ok, had a couple of beers and saw a few friendly faces before going to the show.



Hope no one got charged for the damages

No sign of Popman

(was he sleeping it off?)



On the other hand three Leythers were spotted at Wembley peering through the window of a Gurkha restaurant.



One was a Frank B lookalike

And that was before you'd been with your Indian friend

after which you were 'spotting' allsorts











well except for the stairs in the restaurant.

Thanx for reminding me

Ok jonny, see you there.

£8:50 'special' for a pie and a pint, £30 to park your car, £6 for a programme.

And some of you lot are calling for free/deal offers at our place.

Not to mention the £225 hotel bill,

£121 ticket bill,

£50 petrol, no change out of £650 for me last weekend!!

Not a cheap do by any means is it Ste.

Certainly not but the seats at wembley were amazing, the 6.5 hr car journey on the way down put a minor spoiler on the wk end,

Really don't see the attraction to spend all that money to watch two other teams play. I had a great view in the pub though!

Free train travel £10 ticket. Bought 4 extra tickets, sold them for £200. Free weekend at wembley!

Hi Dennis

only read your original post when I got back!

Went to Wetherspoons up the road, for beers and food on friday night. Hotel had hiked up their bar prices this year after we drank them dry 2 years back (literally) - Convent Garden Sat night, and some sportsbar off The Strand on sunday whilst the ladies went shopping on Oxford St (London, not Leigh

). Another great weekend trying to detox now