Best route from Wembley to SE22 whilst wearing a kilt

[DovertheRoad]

Hi, can anyone recommend a speedy departure route after Friday nights WC qualifier to get back to ED in our kilts safely? Thanks.

[mancity68]

Jubilee Line to Canada Water, ginger line to Peckham Rye. No one will care....!

[red devil]

They will if he forgets to cross his legs!

You know what they say about real Scotsmen...could get chilly in the Trossachs

[DovertheRoad]

England fans used to care. Then Germany and Argentina rivalries got bigger. Then you lost all hope....

[mancity68]

Ah. I hadn't haughty of it like that. I just meant that London tube / train travellers see so many funny things on a Friday night, some chaps in kilts would barely register...!

[malumbu]

Win 2-0 with a particularly special second goal (sadly not available on Youtube). Then invade the pitch after the final whistle. Break the crossbar. Dance around with Rod Stewart. Wait for most of the England fan/s to go home. And then it should be fairly easy to get home.

Alternatively sing Engerland Engerland Engerland, God Save the Queen, and FO Europe, and they will think that you are an England fan. You can practice by watching Questiontime on Thursday and shouting at anyone in the slightest bit liberal.

Or pretend to be Russian, and the queues will part like the red sea.

Good luck - it's a pity that your team has become so weak in the last 20 years. So much more passionate than the home country.

[emilydina]

East dulwich to London Bridge - jubilee line strait to Wembley park

[Lynne]

When you'e seen a bloke about 6'4" tall, wearing a green lace evening frock with a black bin-bag as a top, and very badly applied make-up, a kilt is nothing much

[Mick Mac]

I think the OP just wants to highlight that there is a match coming up but....

A kilt is a statement of national identity of a team and nation that have always been at odds with England. Those comparing it to a man in a dress probably overestimate the mindset of a minority of England fans especially in post Brexit mode, and who may just have been put to the sword (or the little dagger thing).

There is a history of Scottish celebrations at Wembley and Trafalgar Square and a win would re-ignite the fixture. Beware the underdog.

[rendelharris]

Fair point Mick Mac - watch yourself, Dover. In the current climate there may be an above average number of meatheads out to prove what they regard as a point.

Though personally if I see anyone hard enough to wear a kilt in the traditional manner in this weather I'd steer well clear...

[uncleglen]

This weather! Ha Ha....we soft southerners have no idea....it's this temperature in Scotland in the summer

[DovertheRoad]

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> Good luck - it's a pity that your team has become

> so weak in the last 20 years. So much more

> passionate than the home country.

And a better track record against Iceland.

*coughs*

[????]

I am STILL laughing about Argentina in 1978 too much to think about it

[Mick Mac]

"Ally's Army" to "We want our money back" in two weeks

[Help-Ma-Boab]

Funny that, I'm STILL laughing about Argentina in 1986, June 22nd I think it was

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> I am STILL laughing about Argentina in 1978 too

> much to think about it

[DovertheRoad]

Help-Ma-Boab Wrote:

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> Funny that, I'm STILL laughing about Argentina in

> 1986, June 22nd I think it was

>

> ???? Wrote:

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> > I am STILL laughing about Argentina in 1978 too

> > much to think about it

The song will be sung on Friday night - to the tune of Hokey Cokey.

[DovertheRoad]

Anyway - prediction is a very unpatriotic 3-0 England. We're wearing pink and in poor form.

[malumbu]

Two things that put me seriously off professional football - music after goals (thank God most of those teams were relegated to the Championship) and garish away kits. Three actually - unecessary changes of kits. So not only do you have a dreadful second kit, you insist on wearing it at away matches? Yuk. Just leave, now, just leave the Union, now, and don't come back until you have sorted it.

Anyway I've found it. In 38 years my memory has dimmed a little - I thought it was 2-0 but Channon got a dodgy penalty at the end. And the brilliant second goal, well it was a brilliant pass and cross which I distinctly remember.... And a proper Scottish kit. (Ignore the Revie/Admiral one, although doesn't look so bad now)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-8M00lpaTY

But I have got an accurate memory of the noise the Scots made that day as opposed to the near silence of the England fans. In part of course as the tighter packed and much smaller old Wembley captured the noise so much better than the overdesigned modern venue.

[Mick Mac]

Gordon McQueen rises above the English defence....

[malumbu]

And better still that thug Jordan didn't score....

[DovertheRoad]

Here's what matters most to the TA travelling down tomorrow:

http://tartanarmyboard.co.uk/forum/index.php?/topic/9950-chippie/

[Mick Mac]

DovertheRoad Wrote:

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> Here's what matters most to the TA travelling down

> tomorrow:

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> http://tartanarmyboard.co.uk/forum/index.php?/topi

> c/9950-chippie/

Quite amusing that DTR

[Mick Mac]

DovertheRoad Wrote:

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> Anyway - prediction is a very unpatriotic 3-0

> England. We're wearing pink and in poor form.

On Friday Scotland will be playing in Pink, with Brown in the middle.

[Help-Ma-Boab]

I'm going as a late call up to The Tartan Army. My first ever International football match. England v Scotland, at Wembley. Looking forward to it.

I can also wear my Dulwich Hamlet scarf as we are plying in pink.

[red devil]

Mick Mac Wrote:

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> Quite amusing that DTR

As long as you understand the phonetic spelling vernacular...ye ken?

Surprised to see a banner ad for MI5 appear on that website...the enemy within ;-)