Fulham travel guide (league)

Fulham
Craven Cottage, South West London
Saturday March 21, kick off 15:00
Premier League

Tickets
Out of a capacity of 25,500, United got 2,931 tickets costing £47 for adults, £34 for over 65s and £19 for under 16s. They have all been sold and posted out.

It is worth checking if there have been any returned tickets with the ticket office from March 18 onwards.

Internet touting agency World Ticket Shop has tickets available at £220.50. All home end tickets have been sold and so have the neutral end tickets.

TV
The match will not be shown live on TV in England, but you can watch it online. You can find links on MyP2P on the day of the game.

We recommend downloading Sopcast or Veetle to get the clearest and most reliable streams.

Travel
We recommend: For maximum drinking time and a quick escape route home, get the Megabus there for £10 leaving at 06:30, get the Tube onward to the ground for a further £5.60.

Then fly home from Gatwick on the 20:25 plane for £43.60 (£10.10 for the train to the airport).

That's £69.30 - 10p cheaper than the train.


Car - £64
If you are using a satnav of a routeplanner, use the destination postcode KT3 6PT.

Take the M6 to Birmingham, then the M42 and the M40 and go onto the M25.

Follow that south towards Gatwick Airport and get off at junction 10.

Take the first exit and go on the A3 towards London for 11 miles and then the ground is on the left off Malden Way. It takes about three hours, 45 minutes each way.

Petrol costs about £32 each way. Add £4 on each way if you want to take the M6 Toll Road.

Parking
You can pay £1.60 an hour to park on side streets off Fulham Palace Road (the A219) like Kingswood Road and Gowan Avenue. Some of them have one-hour restrictions.

The further you get from the ground, the more likely you are to find free parking spots. This map gives shows you the various parking zones.

If you want to play it safe, there are a few marshalled car parks off Stevenage Road and Woodlawn Road at a fiver each.

Train - £69.40

There are two ways of getting to the ground from Manchester.

Train → Tube → Train
The nearest train station to the ground is Putney.

You can get there from Manchester in three hours with two changes (one Tube) and it will cost you £69.40 at the cheapest (an off-peak return bought on the day).

Train –> Tube –> Tube
The nearest Tube stations to the ground are Fulham Broadway (pictured above), Putney Bridge and Parsons Green.

If you take that route, you can reach the ground in two hours and 45 minutes. It will cost you £71.70 (an off-peak return from Piccadilly to Euston for £66.10 and then a one-day Travelcard covering zones 1 and 2 on the Tube for £5.60).

But regardless of which you take, you still have to get the train to London Euston in the first place.

Manchester to the game
From 06:35, direct trains from Piccadilly to Euston leave at 15, 35 and 55 minutes past the hour and take just over two hours. We advise you don't leave later than 11:35.

Onward journey by Tube and train

From Euston, take the Victoria Line to Vauxhall, which takes half an hour and services run every five minutes.

If you have bought train ticket from Manchester to Putney, your train ticket will be valid for the Tube.

At Vauxhall, take the train to Putney, which takes 10 minutes. Services run every six minutes.


Putney Train Station is a 25-minute walk to the ground. Walk north up Fulham High Street and cross the Thames on to Putney Bridge Approach.

Then walk up Fulham High Street and continue onto Fulham Palace Road. The ground is on your left.

Onward journey by Tube
From Euston to Putney Bridge, it takes 35 minutes. Services will run every five minutes.

1. Take the Victoria Line from Euston to Green Park.
2. Then take the Piccadilly Line from Green Park to Earls Court
3. Then take the District Line from Earls Court to Putney Bridge.

It's then a 15-minute walk to the ground. To get there, walk up Fulham High Street and continue onto Fulham Palace Road. The ground is on your left.

The game to Manchester

By train
Get the train from Putney to Vaxuhall (pictured right). There are nine of these every hour after the match. The journey takes 11 minutes.

Then get the Victoria Line Tube to Euston, which takes half an hour.

By tube
1. Take the District Line from Putney Bridge to Earls Court
2. Take the Piccadilly Line from Earls Court to Green Park
3. Then take the Victoria Line from Green Park to Euston.

On the way back, direct trains leaving Euston for Piccadilly at 18:00, 18:20, 18:30, 18:37, 18:43, 18:55, 19:04, 19:19 and 20:09.. They take two-and-a-half hours.

After that, there are five services that require one or two changes and take about three hours and 20 minutes. These are best avoided.


Coach - £31
United are running coaches to the game, with places priced at £31 per person. Book here.


Coach and Tube - £23.60
Megabus is running three coaches from Manchester to London and two coaches back from London to Manchester on the day of the game, with places costing £8 to £10 each way.

Leave Chorlton Street Bus Station: 04:00, 06:30, 08:45 (all £10 singles)
Arrive Victoria Bus Station: 08:10, 11:00, 13:30

Leave Victoria Bus Station: 18:35 (£8), 23:00 (£10)
Arrive Chorlton Street Bus Station: 22:55 , 03:00

National Express is also running a coach to and from Manchester to London costing £10 one way there and £8 back.

Leave Chorlton Street Bus Station: 08:00
Arrive Victoria Bus Station: 13:15
Leave Victoria Bus Station: 19:00 (£8)
Arrive Chorlton Street Bus Station: 23:50

From Victoria Bus Station, walk five minutes down the road to Victoria Tube Station (see the map above).

Then buy a one-day Travelcard covering zones 1 and 2 on the Tube for £5.60.
1.Take the Victoria Line from Victoria to Green Park.
2. Then take the Piccadilly Line from Green Park to Earls Court
3. Then take the District Line from Earls Court to Putney Bridge.

It's then a 15-minute walk to the ground. To get there, walk up Fulham High Street and continue onto Fulham Palace Road. The ground is on your left.

Plane/train - £99.90
You can fly from Manchester to Gatwick Airport in 55 minutes for £89.90 return (flights both ways on British Airways) and then get the train to the ground, which takes 45 minutes and costs £10.10 return.

On the way there, you can either get the 06:35 for £46.20 one way, or, better still, the 10:00 for £56.20.

From Gatwick Airport, it takes 45 minutes to get to Putney Train Station, which is a 15-minute walk to the ground.

Trains go from Gatwick to Clapham Junction every 20 minutes and then you can get regular services to Putney.

Homeward bound, reverse the above train journey and get the 20:25 plane from Gatwick to Manchester costing £43.60 one way.

We'll bring you a pub guide next week.