Wembley yesterday was a magnificent day, truly magnificent. Bucket list magnitude and it far surpassed my expectations.
wife dropped my lads and I off at Woking station ( cos rail replacement busses from Guildford so decided to go straight to Woking ) and we caught the 09:58. Train was jammed with Shots supporters. Singing , laughing, bantering and kuiering with Stella and Fosters. It was amazing.
got off at Waterloo and got onto jubilee line to Wembley Park but my mate Rob, ( the big spurs fan) reckoned we should get off a little before and go to a Wetherspoons for “breakfast”. Couple of cheap pints and back onto jubilee to Wembley Park.
got there early, out of station and one is greeted with the boulevard up to Wembley stadium. Got it and settled down to a quick pint. At this point Rob and co went to their seats on top tier and I went to my seats in lower tier. Whyteleafe were 1 up and all to play for. Football is a demon at times and leafe deserved the win but alas whitstable equalised and it went to extra time which suited us as otherwise it would be a 2 hour gap between games. Just before end of full time leafe hit the cross bar .. in extra time whitstable scored and won the game. Sad , but true. Dreams shattered and some realised. It’s football. For this game there were about 15 000 fans in the stadium. The noise generated was decibels in excess of 15000. Wembley is special.
aldershot crowd started filling in , our section of stadium was chockablock for kickoff. About 19000 in total. Spennymoor brought about 8000 and there were a few fans from the other sides that stayed behind. Maybe 30 000 all in. First half uneventful with them having better chances.
half time gaffer must have shouted them loud cos 3 minutes into second half we scored. The noise and celebration was off the charts. After that, they looked done. 71 minutes we scored again, more jubilant scenes. And then the 3rd goal which was magnificently taken. See the highlights if you can. Scorer looks more like a bar fly than a footballer but I have seen him score some beauties this season. Not a single shots person left until after the presentation and champagne moments.  
My eldest lads left asap and made their way to south bank for an apres game pint. Youngest and I met them under the shadow of Big Ben, the eye, Houses of Parliament and reminisced about the great day. Was expecting the trains to be less full on way home. Caught the 21:00 to Woking. Jammed solid full of fans singing and being happy. My lads loved it, we had a superlative day. They will never forget this day, me neither. Still buzzing.
Aldershot will be doing an open bus drive through Aldershot this evening. I’ll be going in a minute.
to give folks an idea. All in costs for the 4 of us including tickets, trains costs, tube fees, beer, food etc collectively we spent about 400 pounds. It’s peanuts to what one could spend just buying a ticket to the FA cup final as an example. Non league football is where it’s at. And the standard of football is pretty good. Aldershot play in 5th tier league here , reckon they would beat kaizer chiefs and pirates.
