To seriously worry about Wednesday?

[Frogletmamma]

My DD 11 has a concert performance on the same road as a lot of bars in my local city centre. My husband is away from home so I need to get her home about 10pm on public transport/taxi. It is going to be mayhem isn't it?

dreary it has not been over egged by the media at all. This

www.liveleak.com/view?t=kk6Dl_1529418012

is what happened in my town on 18th June and it was played down and described as celebratory foolishness and high jinks.

they surrounded her and rocked the car so she couldnt move and the prick on top of the car ended up breaking the back window.

If anything its been minimized and played down. Maybe if an example had been made of this lot the incident in London with the ambulance might not have happened.

Good thinking machine might cross Broad Street and take stairs to underpass. No-one who is drunk can negotiate those steep stairs.

But if it doesn’t go to Extra time it will have calmed down a bit by 10

I love your optimism...does Broad Street ever calm down? If England lose then they'll be getting drunk and if they win they'll be getting drunk.

I don't think I'd use the underpass, although it's at least heading away from Broad Street. Just move further away from BS and perhaps go to a hotel and ask them to book a taxi (after having a nice cup of tea at the bar!). Not a hotel on BS though - try the Crowne Plaza, that's close by and unlikely to be full of yobs. Plus the taxis can pull in easily as it's a no through route...

I understand, I think it's been under reported and I'm nit even in that area but my cousin is.

I think that the priority is probably to get her way from the area ASAP even if by ducking and diving. But I still think you need a taxi, there will be people being, er, strange, on trains.

Oh but men's football is so wonderful and bringing the country together so wonderfully, @HelenaDove. All these moaning minnies complaining about the rise in domestic violence, the vandalism, the disruption to other long-planned events etc, they are just lacking in patriotism and proper feeling...

YY SGB im fucking fed up with it being minimized.

Drunk people can be idiots but they don’t generally turn violent towards children. You will be fine, just pre-book the taxi to arrive as the concert ends outside the venue.

helena I don't understand why you think your link proves anything is under-reported. That was on 18 th June
the quote in another thread about WM police having 3000 calls - those were all 999 calls made not that there were 3000 calls made about the about the footie result behaviour.
The press have seized on the same incidents - the IKEA store, the ambulance and the jumping on vehicles to imply that the whole country is in mayhem with uncontrollable hordes ram[paging in full riot mode. The truth is somewhere in the middle.
Lots of things happen on summer weekends when young men drink too much. I feel the media has (if you bothered to read my second point) inadvertently encouraged more of the same so that the drunken men feel that they should behave in this way to celebrate a stupid footie match. Attention seeking at its worst.
Absolutely nothing violent has happened in any of the towns near where I live.

We were in Nottingham on Sunday and - with the exception of one entirely unacceptable incident - it was great. We had teens with us and all of us felt safe.

Any violence is unacceptable, but please don't think we're all hooligans. Very very few people are out to cause trouble.

A lot of taxis avoid Broad Street at the best of times and will often ask you to go down one of the side streets in order to get picked up otherwise they get stuck on traffic. There’s a lot of roadworks going on in the area too.

Hopefully it the game will be over before 9pm and initial celebrations will have died down fairly quickly.

Have you talked to the organisers of the event? You can't be the only one facing this. Have they any ideas?

Organisers of local event, not the world cup. (Although that could be a plan )

Yeah it was only one ambulance that got ruined.

Strangely the NHS seem to be able to afford that and the causes of booze but not other things according to this board

You will need to prep her so she isn’t too alarmed by the drunken jollity - a huge crowd of shouting, chanting adults is a bit scary.

A lot of taxis avoid Broad Street

Exactly, there are a lot of posters on this thread that forget the "nuanced" argument that they like to profess and conveniently ignore the more common local knowledge and try and extrapolate that argument as being something they "should" be against.

It's nothing more than trying to play guilt by association and falls into the category of, I'm not racist as i have black friends.

Not sure I see this as too much to worry about personally (but I'll probably get shouted down). See it as a chance to soak up the atmosphere, which will be incredible if they win. Something you and your daughter will probably remember for a long while (hopefully for the right reasons).

Could you walk over to the Mailbox and get a taxi from there? Very quick to get to from Broad Street if you take the canal path and should avoid the worst of the rowdiness!

It will be an adventure for her!

Hope it’s all fine tonight and your DD has a brilliant evening!

I think you're overreacting. Yes, there will be drunk, rowdy people but they won't give a shit about you or your daughter and will just be doing their own thing. You'll be fine. They are not flesh eating zombies.

Hope OP and her DD got home all right. I managed to time my trip home from my event so that there was little or no bollockery going on (when i walked to the station, people were still watching pub televisions; when I got out of the train everything was quiet.)

Coffee planned to go via mailbox but the normal route through was closed (road works). Got out of Birmingham via New Street at end of extra time. Thought we were doing well till lots of p*** football fans got on at 5 ways. All reasonably subdued though. Two good consequences-my DD never wants to touch alcohol and the concert was excellent. Shame about the football but you can't have everything!

Glad the concert went well and you both got home safe.

You’ve taught her a great life lesson of keeping going with important stuff and finds ways round obstacles (literally in the case of the roadworks 😂).

I'd be mildly concerned you're passing on your anxiety about drink and crowds etc to your daughter, ... missing pt of thread entirely. I actually can't understand the angst about it at all. Big match, lots of normal ordinary people in pubs watching it, yes a minority may be obv way too drunk, loud etc but you were hardly expecting a bloodbath and riots..