Bar 1930

The new Wembley stadium was opened March 2007 and I was lucky enough to be one of the first to visit the ground and see up close the amazing building which has sparked so much discussion in the UK media. The place itself is very impressive indeed its a meaty 90,000 seat stadium ready to house some of the best football matches the country will ever see. However checking the stadium’s facilities I was somewhat disappointed by the way refreshments were delivered to the ticket-holders. Drinks are dispensed from a Mc-Donald’s-fast-food-style desk with vast queues at each manned station. You approach the “bar” give your order and receive plastic pint cups containing the most bland of lagers. The alcoholic variety ends there and wandering out of the queue I quickly realise that my bar experience is over- with no-where to sit with my beverage except my seat in the stands I am left trying to navigate a stampede of spectators as I try to get the beverage back to my seat. I arrive wet, my pint halfway down my front only to lose the rest of it getting from the first seat on the row to my own.

Overall the place is a real spectacle but the billions of pounds appear to have been wasted on an all-American pub solution which really deserves the character granted at the old venue but that, it is not- this “bar” gets 1/10.