Usually a London trip is held three or four times a season, however this season there is one London team, Brentford,  in League One, so this for us was a big day out. 15 lads met up at Shipley station, making the short journey over to Leeds, where we connected to the train heading for Kings Cross. Once arriving in London as usual we headed for the local attractions, Soho, Covent Garden etc...

After visiting a number of rather expensive pubs around the capital, we caught the tube to South Ealing, the closest tube station to Griffin Park, but this is still a taxi/bus ride away. Apparently its a 15/20 minute walk, which is 15/20 minutes to long for a load of fat northerners! There are not many pubs down Ealing Road, but we did stop at one called 'Roddys Bar', which was two minutes walk from the tube station. In here it was very pleasant and we watched football on Sky.

As usual it was raining but we were clever enough to get under cover in the seating section of the away end. The view is great for 90% of the pitch, but some plastic sheeting was up which restricted the view to one goal. If sat in the wrong seat with a big away following, certain seats you could not see hardly anything of the goal in front of the standing away fans! Be warned!

We were merry and singing for the whole 90 minutes, we were banging on the metal sheeting and we actually won the game 2-1, which was a great result so you can imagine the joy and behaviour!! The stewards however were fantastic, letting us do pretty much whatever we liked within reason. After the game we went to the 'Royal Princess' one of the 4 pubs on either corner of the ground. In here it was very friendly, lots of City fans and disappointed Brentford fans sharing a drink before having to leave for the wives!

All in all we had a very good day, the people were friendly and if you can get passed the big headed arrogant London Police, you should enjoy your day out.