will give you all a wave from my seat at wembley tonight will be wearing either my yellow pools away top or my red/black top so will be easy to spot.
toodle pip till i get back from that there london

ps do they still wear black capes and drive round the capital in horse drawn cabs in the fog

I'll give you a wave from the top of Block K!!!

Might need a parachute from that seat!

You two must have money to burn.

Go to London to watch England or burn money?!!?

Same answer for both questions, no idea!

I'll happily watch England at home or even in the pub, I've been to England games at the Riverside, Stadium of Light and St James Park, but I'd never go all the way to the smoke.

I very much doubt I'll ever see my national side live in the flesh again in my lifetime, all because of Wembley, crazy and sad.

I very much doubt I'll watch them in the flesh either, but that's mainly because they are overpaid, overrated premier league tosspots who I wouldn't pay a penny to watch.

I don't know, do you?

No I don't. I'd certain pay 1p to watch a live England game, as long as I didn't have to travel all the way to London like.

I heard that some tickets for tonight's game were changing hands at 4 times the face value.

Are some people mad? Its a friendly - who cares?

It's a shame that your average football fans has this opinion of their national side but the players over the last ten years have done themselves no favours.

The country has loads of exciting youngsters; Walcott, Huddlestone, Lennon, Richards, Bentley and of course Wayne Rooney. If Capello can get these players playing with the same fight and determination they show for their club sides then we might just see those opinions reversed.

There are some reports that Capello is adopting a stricter approach - calling players by surname, making them all dine at the same time in the same place etc.

Its sounds a bit extreme but if it gets those overpaid fancy-dans to leave their overinflated ego's behind and start playing proper football as a team then I'm all for it.

precisely. If they don't like Capello's regime they can walk away, because they can afford to. I've never known so many players "retire" themselves from the England international football team, as there has been in the last couple of years.
But who is going to start reducing the amount of money they get? Also when people like Alex Ferguson are defending the salaries the players are on, there isn't even anybody from a management perspective to cull the wages.
I'll bet my works manager does all he can to restrict the piddly amount of my pay rise.

an old(but current)story.a touch of balance perhaps?
England stars to play for nothing

Skipper Terry is happy to be donating his fee to charity
England's footballers have decided to play for the national team for free - and donate their match fees to charity.
The squad are to establish a Team England Footballers Charity, which will raise more than £1m before the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

"Every player to a man is looking forward to supporting this charity," said England skipper John Terry.

Football Association chief Brian Barwick added: "I am very pleased the whole squad has taken this initiative."

I'm overjoyed that the England squad has chosen to support the Bobby Moore Fund for Cancer Research UK

Stephanie Moore, widow of Bobby

The project has been co-ordinated by 1966 Entertainment - owned by David Beckham's manager Terry Byrne and Simon Fuller - which won the rights to manage the players' commercial affairs last August.

Byrne told the Daily Mirror: "I am not going to say we are saving the world or that we should have haloes fitted but as a group the England players wanted to make a difference.

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It's delightful to see that the squad will be donating future match fees to charitable organisations

BT

"Some people will look at this and say, 'what is £50,000 to someone who can earn that in a week?'.

"But the players didn't have to do this, they chose to. They wanted to do some good."

The charities set to benefit include the Association of Children's Hospices, WellChild, the Bobby Moore Fund and the Professional Footballers Association Charity Initiatives.

Stephanie Moore, widow of Bobby, said: "I'm overjoyed that the England squad has chosen to support the Bobby Moore Fund for Cancer Research UK.

"I know that Bobby would have been delighted."

In addition to their match fees, the players are expected to undertake additional charitable activities including a grassroots initiative to help disadvantaged youth teams.

I thought Wembley was built for American Football did not realise any other sport would us it.

I feel privileged to have been the lone spectator of a 28 goal thriller tonight.

right i am back
to answer some questions
my ticket cost me nothing it was bought as a birthday present
my 2 daughters paid the diesel costs and also the £20 cost of the travelodge at toddington services last night
i had previously visited the old wembley and wanted to visit the new one to check it out for when pools play there
the ground is fantastic the tube station cannot cope with a almost full house
the atmosphere was shite full of gooners booing chelsea players and vice versa the fuss over the minutes silence is a load of tosh a couple of idiots made a noise and were told to shut up end of
the england performance reminded so much of pools this season .

Spot on.

Seen you walking up Olympic/Wembley way, The first shirt i pick out was the Yellow away shirt, mind you it stuck out a mile with all those red and white England Shirts.

Our performance had 'Italian Coach' written all over it. 1-0 Up so we sit back and defend, they equalise so he decides to attack, we score within a couple of minutes and then sit and play the posession game. cue the hundreds/thousands of fans walking out in the 75th minute.

Great Stadium, Hopefully next time i'm there its for Pools