We weren't troublesome at all just having a good day out like we do every year. I think you'll find it was some of your idiots that got thrown out who would prefer to turn round and make death threats where there was young children aswell instead of watch your team in the final. Also you mention of throwing of a pint which none of us did either.

So who's the troublesome fans?

We arrived at our Heathrow hotel on Friday lunchtime and drove into London for a tour of the place. Driving round Trafalgar Square and seeing the plinth occupied by a young lady in primrose and blue dancing and waving a Wires flag !!

We had the flags on the car and attracted a few puzzled looks.

Had photo opportunities with Stevo and David Gest !!!

Quality weekend

Hahahaha...Fantastic, is that true!?

Opened a new topic !!

Make sure to post some pics!

*Rugbychick

Let's hope it isn't in a 'private' area then!

you know what every Wakey fan was doing at the exact same time, i take my hat off to you

It was fantastic getting into the Wembley Park station at 12 ish and hearing all the chanting from the confines of the station to the stadium concourses and the place being flooded with P&B (where were all the Hudds fans).

Seeing a great try saving (and match turning) tackle from a Wakefield underhill college??? kid in the pre match game by bundling a player into touch.

The fella in front of me suffering from the same nerves i was feeling and high fiving people after every score (including a family most of which seemed to have been forced to come along).

Setting off at 7, going dallam lane from mine and seeing thousands of wire fans, and the lord rodney was absoloutley heaving

Warwick services

Amazing, primrose and blue everywhere! They even had a stall outside the services selling wire merchandice





Arriving in High Wycombe and going to the coffee shop with my dad talkng to this couple from Warrington, just beginning to get a taste of the atmosphere now, and that chicken sandwhich was lovelly



Seeing the first friendly face at the station in Wycombe , Wire in the Final



Waiting for the train, getting really excited now

Having to stand up on the train and every one around me listening to my conversation with my dad, me asking him who he was on about about, he kept mentioning some old singers or something (kids today, was his reply

) and boy did my back hurt standing up on that train

Getting off the train and immediatly looking up and seeing one side of Wembley, i tapped my dad on the shoulder and said 'look dad, there it is!' I was amazed by the sheer size of it, huge

Walking around Wembley, took about half an hour with all the stops chatting to Wire fans. Looking over toward Wembley Way and seeing thousands of fans (mainly p & b) walking in my direction. The camera had to come out at this point

Seeing those people selling them 'hear the ref' radios, what the hell lol why would i wanna hear the bloody ref! Imagine it, 'ONE' , 'HELD' , that would really annoy me

Meeting my friends in the Greyhound pub, there were millions of wires in there it was amazing. Didnt wanna pay them prices for beer but luckily i came prepared, bottles of calsberg in a bag



Meeting Anthony Sullivan, Chris Joynt and many of the Prescott charity fundraisers was good, getting pictures taken with them, although i dont think Chris Joynt was too happy ot get mobbed by all us lot

Entering Wembley and going up the never ending escalators was amazing, people singing and the whole setting was great.


Walking out onto Wembley , what a site! Turning around to see my friends who were trying to get my attention, waving hands like mad shouting 'Gaz. Gaz, up here!' lol that put a smile on my face.

The game itself! Ive never seen a stadium like it, the atmosphere, the crowd, the people, the colours. It was amazing, a day to remember. This was the greatest day of my life, unbelievable.

Wolfie scoring a try!

The game, what a game! Mathers going over in 70 seconds was just the start we needed. And the Briers drop goal was the icing!

Watching Morley and Briers lifting the cup together, priceless!

I was never certain we'd actually won the game until the clock read 79:12 then i just jumped on my dad with a massive sigh of relief , we'd won the cup! Never had a feeling like it before, the kinda feeling you never forget.

And from there on it was just emotional and exciting, taking it all in was too much, you cant describe the feeling you have to have been there. Its what you wait you whole life for, and boy is it worth it!

left at 7 saturday morning,stopping at corley services with the place packed with wire fans,the realisation of what was ahead dawning.
passing a car on the m1 with two kids aged about ten in the back,we passed them about five times and each time they were fist pumping and laughing.
getting into the sports bar at wembley for about 10.45 and having a few pints sat with some hull kr fans who were a scream.
meeting scully with the greeting
"your still a wire scully" having a chat and a photo with him,top bloke.
standing outside the ibis when simon moran came out of the station and everyone was cheering.
getting in wembley and soaking it all in,the game,say no more.
on the tube with some leeds fans who wished us all the best and seemed genuinely pleased for us,again a great set of lads.
a top night out in soho,talking to two coppers outside a pub who were checking out my club polo shirt and also were made up that we won.
falling into bed at 2.30 am when i had drunk myself sober.
one of the best days ever.

Is a bit scabby and bloody

Is that your left thigh were looking at?

right arm just under shoulder

Right, I see it now. Nice work!

We are not exactly "Champions".
Only Challenge Cup Winners". But we know what you mean.

we are champions

Taking into account the fact that Welsh, English, Russian, French and a team from Wigan enter the competition, it's fair to say we're european cup champions.

That would explain all them european cups then..

It'd be interesting if anyone on here heard this happen, but a Snellenser friend and another friend who knew little about league but was with some Wires apparently had the following convo in the East Stand at Wembley:

Matt (the newbie): Are they chanting Warriors or Wires?
(Dozens of heads on primrose and blue bodies turn in surprise).
Dave The Snellenser: They're chanting Wires.

Matt: But why are they chanting Wires?
(More heads turn)
Dave The Snellenser: Because, Matt, Warrington is a town famed for the manufacture of wire.

Apparently this got quite a good laugh!

We were walking past the Arena before the game and heading for the Pub.

The Arena doors opened and the first bloke to come out asked me

"Who won?"

I dont no. but we're getting pints thrown at us, so i was guessing it was us they was on about

Well if you were one of the 5 or 6 Wakey idiots in 116 and if that behaviour is your normal good day out then you are really a small minded pr*ck who shouldn't be near a rugby ground (and that goes for any fans regardless of affiliation!). Otherwise I guess you don't have a clue who I am on about and just wanted to feel important and join in the conversation - Bit boring on the Wakey site is it?

We were talking about it at Wembley and we couldn`t think of another team in England with a singular name like The Wire,( coz that`s what we are, not Wires imo) Eg The Swans, The Irons, the reds

The canaries, The Robins.....etc

Shorpe United are known as 'The Iron', I believe.

Good point, now that's a pub quiz question...

I guess you've got The 'Fax, but it's not exactly imaginative!