Get a return train from Gatwick to London St Pancreas. Then get the Victoria line a few stops to highbury and islington. Aim to leave St pancreas at around 7.30 on the way back.
Check the Stansted Express is running before you go.
A bus replacement service is common on a Sunday.
They run a replacement bus service instead to Liverpool St.
You then have to make your own way to the ground.
It's a bit of a nightmare but at least you have loads of time.
Getting home, depending on which side of the ground you are one,
you could get on the Tube at
Highbury&Islington (Victoria line to Kings Cross)
or
Arsenal (Piccadilly line to Kings Cross)
for the train to Gatwick.
The train journey from Kings Cross to Gatwick
takes around 70 minutes.
You'll have time to buy ticket at Kings Cross if you leave the ground by 6.
Thanks for that. Will hopefully have the tickets soon,so will know what side of the ground we will be on. Would I be better taking the Gatwick express from Victoria on the way back and book and pay online in advance. is there also a chance that that service will revert to a bus on a Sunday?
How would I find out if the Stansted Express is running that day.Do they usually post on their website, or do you need to contact them.Seems mad to pay a high priced train ticket and then they bus you in!!
None of us know London at all, so easiest way is probably best?
Looking at prices, you might as well take the Gatwick Express.
You'll still have to buy a tube ticket to get you to victoria from
the ground.
Replacement bus is very unlikely.
Check the stansted website on the Saturday before the game.
You get a refund if the bus replaces the train.
You're grand.
If you're happy to buy online then go for it.
I buy at the station but that's just me.
You'll be ok for time.
If you're getting Stansted Express, don't go as far as Liverpool St.
Get off at Tottenham Hale and buy a day travelcard (zone 1-6)
The travelcard will cover the rest of your tube trips for the day.
From Tottenham Hale, it's two stops to Finsbury Park (15 min walk to ground)
or three stops to HighburyIslington (10minute walk).
Replacement bus service is very unlikely on the Gatwick line from Victoria, but at the weekend the Thameslink line (which runs south from Kings Cross and is the start of the line from there to Gatwick) is almost always off - and the trains on that line are generally a bit slower and less frequent than Victoria trains ... so your route should be tube to Victoria and get the train from there.
You can check www.nationalrail.co.uk .. the online timetable there should be updated for engineering work closer to the time ... It's quite likely that there'll be extensive Engineering work over the Easter weekend.
Note the Gatwick Express is fairly rubbish really for the premium price - save yourself a few quid instead and take the regular Southern Railways train from Gatwick .. The fast trains are only a few minutes slower than the Gatwick Express and about a fiver cheaper.
If you're flying out of LGW at 9.25 then you want to be there by around 8.30 .. so as long as trains are running out of Victoria as normal then provided you're on a train from Victoria before 8.00 then you should have no worries.