Running Tickets and Flags

Another regulation week? Hardly...
While training and commuting to work continues, its getting lighter in the mornings which makes for some nice early hints of spring as you can see on the right here. Nice to see some colour during early morning runs. Well, it’s just nice to be able to see really...

Anyway, Thursday night saw us at White Hart Lane again for Spurs v Slavia Prague in the knockout stages of the UEFA Cup (a European tournament for the clubs). Almost a full stadium and a good ‘European Night’ atmosphere to start off saw us only draw 1-1, but it was enough to see Tottenham through to the final 16 teams of the Cup.

Meanwhile, Friday saw the arrival (finally) of my ticket to this Sunday’s League Cup Final at Wembley stadium. To say I was happy about this, well... considering 31,000 tickets for Spurs, with 80,000 Spurs members, not including non-members, you can get an idea of how difficult it is to secure a ticket.
Because of this, my housemate and myself put our names down with the Supporters Trust to go to Wembley stadium today (Saturday) and help put out flags throughout the Tottenham seats. The day started at the club’s headquarters at White Hart Lane, where we were bussed over to Wembley. After security check-in, we were led in teams to different parts of the stadium where we then placed the flags at every seat for nearly one half of the stadium. Funnily enough, the section where my seat is just happened to be the block that my team started in!! So after giving my seat a quick try it was off to work. Several hours later we broke for a free lunch in the Wembley Canteen - excellent food too (not to mention a bit of a pigout!). Eventually once the job was done, it was a brief photo shoot down by the pitch including my sneak shot on the hallowed turf (see pic), before bussing back to WHL.

Now it’s off to Haymarket to catch up with some folks and watch the England v France six nations rugby match tonight...

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