Quote Originally Posted by HCZ_Reborn View Post
There are more transport links but ultimately when you look at the Wembley stations, the platforms and stairwells are built in such a way that can facilitate a lot of people. Even take away Holloway Road and Drayton Park which for obvious reasons are closed on match day. Arsenal tube station is all very narrow passages, to a degree same with Finsbury Park as well. Highbury and Islington is a bit better but from personal experience you have the a bit of a squeeze on the platforms coming away after matches.


And this is with policing which makes sure there are only so many people who can enter the stations at any one time. Plus I don’t know for sure, but isn’t there more parking facilities Wembley way?

I’d love to see the Emirates host 80,000 but I can see the potential for things like bottleneck crowding, taking even longer than it does already to get away from the ground and the potential for a crush. Although I’m sure the amount it would cost to facilitate 25% more people would be the biggest consideration.
It's a fair point about some of the stations but there are so many more options near The Emirates. I've tried a few different things back in the day, I never used to go home via Arsenal station (I did a long time ago, but never in the Emirates era). If you walk to Finsbury Park or Highbury and Islington then sure, there are some queues but it's not that bad. Towards the end of my season ticket days I used to go to Caledonian Road - a bit further to walk but it's not that far and by the time you get there, there's no-one there. Plus we were going towards Oakwood so you're going back towards the busier stations. We'd often get a seat.

I've been stuck in far bigger queues coming back from Wembley where everyone is trying to get back to the same station.

Not sure about parking, it's extortionate to park at both Wembley and The Emirates (even more so for the latter). I don't know what parking is like nearby, my dad used to know a place the other side of Finsbury where we'd park when I was a kid. He knew somewhere fairly near Wembley too. I suspect it's not great either place.