But this doesn't mean I will never step in to a stadium. My company had kindly organised a tour to the very famous Wembely Stadium located at North London sometime in August. This gave me a good opportunity to experience something new. However I was in shock when told that the tour would last for 90 mintues. I wondered what could it be that take such a long time to tour a stadium!
One of the astonishing features about this stadium is the arch which spans 315m from one end to the other, is a very important structure to support the roof hence allowing clear view from every seat without any obstruction scene of structural columns.
The entrance to the tickets office.
After registered ourselves and given the entrance passes we waited for our guide to take us to tour the stadium at 5.30pm.
And finally our tour guide arrived on time and then started briefing us. So let's join me to the inside world of Wembley Stadium.
First's up, the corridors, with some football related paintings/photos hanged on the walls...
Apparently there are as many as 2,618 toilets facilities.
So here we are... Try to guess how many people can fit in this stadium?
There are 90,000 seats, making it one of the largest stadiums in the world. This is not it, all the seats are covered by the retractable roof so no one will get wet. Yeah, it costs £798million to build, the most expensive stadium ever built.
This is our tour guide.
A view of their dining/conference room.
We are now in the press conference room where interviews will take place after the matches. My colleague, Steve (in blue shirt) volunteered to go up there and experienced how it feels like when being interviewed!
This is me in the 'hot' seat then!
The treatment room.
Next to the treatment and restroom is the changing room. Each player will have their designated seat apparently.
I may not know much about football but I still know who David Beckham is. Everybody just waited for their turns to take a shot with his shirt! Including me of course.
This room is equipped with netting ceiling. You probably can guess why.
Yes, it allows the players to practice their football skills.
The tour guide wanted us to queue up in two lines, pretending to be the players ready to meet the crowds. At this time the cheers of the crowds from pre-recorded tape made us feel like we were in a real match.
The grass pitch really is a high quality one.
These are the special leather seats. We were told that unless you are friends with Royal's families else even though you have the money still cannot get to these seats.
We were standing in front of the Corporate boxes level. The tour guide told us David Beckham ownes two of these boxes, but refused to tell us which ones...
Heading up the stair...
for the trophy.
In exchanged of our entrance passes we each got a small souvenir.
It was almost the end of our stadium tour.
We came to Bobby Moore's bronze statue as our last stop, which really ended almost one and half hour later! This statue is in the honour of Bobby Moore for winning the World Cup when England beaten West Germany back in 1966 at the former stadium.
If you ask me would this tour make me want to come back next time to watch a match? I think probably not... I would rather spend the money (and time) on shopping. Well... unless it is another free event, who knows!
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