I am hoping to be in London on the weekend after Christmas. How hard will it be to get a ticket for any of the games that weekend. I don't really have a favorite EPL team so which team I see does not concern me. I am just looking to see any game. Any suggestions are welcomed Thanks
Go to www.premierleague.com and select the Season Fixtures box. You can list the schedule by month. Briefely, of the London clubs, on Friday the 26th, Arsenal, Charlton and Fulham are home. Sunday the 28th, Chelski and Spurs are home. Pick the game and go to that club's site and see if you can organize some tickets. Good luck!
Brentford are at home to Britsol City on Boxing Day if you get here a bit early! Always brings an exciting fixture!
I'd check out White Hart Lane if I were you.... It's seriously old school (about 100 years old school)- a little different from "Invesco Field at Mile High." I saw the Spurs play there last season- they actually won too. Ticketmaster.UK is not an option for home THFC matches.... I think you'll actually have to call the ticket office.
White Hart Lane is a little difficult to get to, depending where you're staying in the city. It's in North London, a long tube ride away and then a switch to an overland train. Very old ground. I went there once last season and then once about a month ago. Alot of history though. You've got to get a map before you go, figure out where you're staying, and then find the closest ground. But, with the excellent underground system, you're pretty close to just about everything. Tickets are expensive for all the clubs though, so take the dollar's slide against the pound into account.
Here's a list of the football in the capital over that weekend, with KO time: Fri 26 December Barclaycard Premiership Arsenal v Wolverhampton 12.00 Charlton v Chelsea 12.00 Fulham v Southampton 12.00 Nationwide Division One Crystal Palace v Millwall 15.00 West Ham v Ipswich 15.00 Nationwide Division Two Brentford v Bristol City 15.00 Sunday 28 December Barclaycard Premiership Chelsea v Portsmouth 12.30 Tottenham v Charlton 15.00 Nationwide Division One Millwall v Gillingham 15.00 Nationwide Division Two QPR v Colchester 15.00 Nationwide Division Three Leyton Orient v Torquay 15.00 Would suggest avoiding the Millwall games. One's a South London derby, and the other's against Gillingham, who have a little previous of their own. The tickets to games involving highest-profile teams (Arsenal, Chelsea) will be difficult to get hold of. I'd suggest getting on to the official websites and finding out what the ticket situation is for any of the games you might be interested in. Hope this helps.
I JUST came back from a trip to England (but I was only there to watch football). You could walk to WHL from the tube. I was in a walking cast with a broken leg, and still made it in about half an hour. It's a little over a mile, I'd guess. There are buses running up Tottenham High Road constantly, too. I know QPR/Fulham, Arsenal and Chelsea are all much easier to get to from the tube. Didn't make it to the Valley, though. Ditto the "stay away from Millwall" advice. As for tickets, Spurs don't go through Ticketmaster, but I called right at the onsale time for the Bolton match and got front row. (I would have rather been 5 rows up or so, but can't complain too much.) Tickets are toughest for derby/rivalry games. At a glance, short of the Spurs/Charlton fixture, I'd imagine none of those are Category A matches, meaning there's no restrications on the public buying tickets. Just call right when they go on sale. (The fixtures you're looking at will likely go on sale this week or next.)
Looking at the fixtures I posted up there... If you have no particular preference, you might well be able to get Charlton tix for home to Chelsea on Friday and away to Spurs on Sunday. See the same team, one home, one away, both against local opposition (hopefully not entirely dead despite being Charlton), in two days. Charlton aren't the biggest team in the world, so you might be able to get the tickets without paying well over the odds. You'd have to get organised though. Just an idea.
Problem is, because they are both London-London games, those two are likely to restrict sales to those who already have ticket stubs (to make sure a bunch of away fans can't buy tickets in the main stands and start trouble). Worth a shot, but don't get your hopes up. (Unless you have friends in the area . . . always a good thing.)