FA Cup final rail strikes: How City and United plan to help supporters

However, planned rail strikes are set to throw travel plans out of the window for thousands of football fans planning to make the trip to London.

But despite this, the match will still be played at England's national stadium, and supporters have to find alternative modes of transport.

However, given each club have been given 30,500 tickets, planning the big day out is proving to be tricky.

How will rail strikes impact the FA Cup final?

Avanti West Coast are the main service travelling from London Euston to any of Manchester's stops, and due to strike action, they have cancelled all trains on Saturday.

LNER (London North Eastern Railway), via a change, also run trains to London from England's second city, but they have cancelled all Manchester-bound services.

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This means United and City supporters based in Manchester are going to have to find different methods of travel.

What are Man City and Man United doing about it?

In response to the rail strikes, City have announced plans to put on extra coaches for ticket holders.

The buses will be subsidised, with an adult seat costing £50, compared to the FA's, which are priced at £60.

Coaches will depart from two Metrolink Park and Ride locations for City fans

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United are also doing the same and are 'satisfied there is enough coach provision to cope with the expected demand'.

The FA have also provided an extra 120 coaches through National Express.

FA Cup final: talkSPORT coverage

The 2022/23 FA Cup final will take place on Saturday, June 3.

Kick-off at Wembley is scheduled for 3pm - the first time since 2011 that this fixture has been played at that time.

talkSPORT will have live coverage from north London throughout the day.

Natalie Sawyer and Tony Cascarino will host out FA Cup GameDay Breakfast from 6am before our Cup Final Warm-up show at 10am.

Adrian Durham will then present our live commentary from Wembley at 1pm.

Commentary will then come from Jim Proudfoot, former Republic of Ireland midfielder Andy Townsend and former England defender Micky Gray.

To tune in to talkSPORT or talkSPORT 2 through the website, click HERE for the live stream.

You can also listen via the talkSPORT app, on DAB digital radio, through your smart speaker and on 1089 or 1053 AM.