Angél’s Babble

To Andy, the Man Utd fan, who lives in Cardiff, thank you so much for your wonderful generosity & hospitality. You made the 2 Hammers fans & 5 Liverpool fans very happy by inviting us in to your lovely home to watch the match, when we had been unable to find anywhere else to watch it and had begun to believe we would miss the whole game.
Thank you from Lyn, Dominic, Bradley, Lo, Mark, Sarah & Chahine

I eventually arrived in Cardiff after a 4½ hour drive, the traffic was snail pace for a while once we got into Wales. The West Ham Fans car park was miles away from the city centre and they provided a ‘free’ bus service to get us from the car park to the city centre (they made up for that by charging £10 to park tho). After lots of phone calls and fighting our way through thousands of fans from both teams, we eventually found my eldest son & his girlfriend. Two hours later the crowd began to thin a little as fans made their way into the Millenium Stadium for the match and we attempted to fight our way into the pub to watch the match on a tiny TV. The pub was just too crowded for our liking though and it got a bit scary when people were trying to push their way in or out of the pub and you couldn’t move out of the way because you were pinned against another fan or a wall, so we left & tried to find another, less crowded, pub. We weren’t having any luck though and were beginning to consider finding a shop that sold TVs to watch the match through the display window, when we saw a couple of guys hanging out of a window. Jokingly, we asked if we could come up and watch the match on their TV, to our amazemant they said yes! We made our way up to their lovely flat and were able to watch the whole match in comfort on a huge widescreen TV

The match was an exciting game and with the Liverpool fans outnumbering the Hammers fans in the flat by something like 15 - 2 (the 2 being me & my youngest son) you can imagine the noise each time Liverpool managed to equalise and the slightly more sedate celebrations when West Ham once again took the lead hehehe. It was a shame the final outcome had to be decided on penalties, but someone had to win, there could be no rematch at a later date.
Both teams played fabulously and did their fans proud. After an hour or so of being in with the Liverpool fans in the street while they celebrated, we made our way back to the car and begun the horrendous journey home. It took almost two hours to get out of Cardiff on the Motorway… the speed we were driving at was something like “I can walk faster than this” speed! We eventually arrived home at 12.45am this morning, feeling totally exhausted but having enjoyed ourselves.

Congratulations Liverpool!!

I’m off to Cardiff early tomorrow morning, for the FA Cup Final between West Ham & Liverpool, I’m planning on setting off on the road at 7am!! I haven’t got a ticket though, I’m going, along with my 14yr old son, for the atmosphere. I think it’ll be an amazing experience and one my son should enjoy.

We’re meeting up with my eldest son, a Liverpool fan and who now lives in Liverpool. It should be an interesting day, especially as me & my son are Hammers fans.

GO HAMMERS!!!!!