Manchester sport, ground by ground
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A Manchester matchday changes the roads, the pubs and the last train, and this section is about those practicalities. Road closures and parking, away ticket allocation, bag policies at the turnstile, what licence a pub needs to show a game, and how the night network behaves after an evening kick-off. Visitor material from the original programme is kept here as an archive.
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Getting home
The final whistle is a fiction when you are calculating a last train. In Manchester, getting home after an evening football match manchester depends on something far more chaotic than the re
Turnstiles
A 20cm by 15cm by 5cm bag clears the published limit at Old Trafford yet still fails at the search team's template. Manchester United's safety policy states bags larger than 8 inches by 6 in
Away ends
UEFA requires visiting clubs to receive at least 5 percent of stadium capacity in a dedicated sector, but the regulation that shapes where those supporters actually sit appears two articles
Licensing
A pub can hold a valid premises licence to sell alcohol and still be breaking the law when it switches on the television for a 3pm kick-off. The gap between what landlords assume their licen
Roads
Trafford Council's event-day parking controls take effect two hours before any fixture at Old Trafford and do not lift until one hour after the final whistle, a window that can stretch past
Matchday
Manchester United Museum & Tour Centre The award winning Museum at Old Trafford hosts over 250,000 visitors annually. Go behind the scenes and experience what it feels like to emerge from
Matchday
Get your running shoes on and start training for the Great Manchester Run in May 2010! Win a fantastic weekend sporting break for two in Manchester, including two places
Matchday
Matchday
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Road closures, transport timetables and ground policies change match by match. Check the venue and the operator on the day.