Drinking In The Stands

I'm not sure it will be entirely negative, most games I'll try to neck 2 pints at HT, whereas if I were allowed to drink in my seat I imagine I'd have a similar amount to drink but obviously spread over the 90 mins rather than the 15 mins. There will of course be idiots who try to neck beers down the whole game but I think that will be a very small minority as opposed to the numbers of people trying to smash as many beers as you can in 15 mins.

 

My main concern is eijits throwing it all around during a standard goal celebration. It's bad enough watching us get humped 5-1 at home, let alone coming home stinking of lager because some lightweights wanted to 'celebrate' our consolation goal.

 

You get that with soft drinks anyway?

Actually the fact you can savour a pint over 45 mins couldstop people necking a couple before going to their seat. Might actually be an improvement.

In an ideal world you'd have purchases linked and charged to your entry card. That way transactions are swift, cashless and attributable to a seat number. This would of course mean a more effective way of ensuring people stay in the right seats and current administration needs revamping.

 

Being able to drink in view of the pitch needed to come in at the start of this season.

 

Exactly - who can forget the scenes of England d1ckhead fans absolutely drenching each other when Trippier scored against Croatia. Cringe.

 

Or it could be people continually leaving and returning to their seats throughout the game, which I've experienced at Twickenham. It does get a bit irritating standing up and having your view briefly blocked 25+ times per half. Although I concede most people seem to go there to drink while a rugby match is on the background.

 

When Saracens played at the Vic, it did feel weird being able to watch a match with a pint in hand.

 

It would be an improvement IMO. Me and some friends went to watch Northwood FC a few times this season and it was nice to be able to watch the football with a beer.

One of the things that sticks in my mind regarding the ban was many years ago when they had that big American band in the Rookery corner of the Lower GT. After the match me and the chaps went to have a beer in the Rookery bar and heard the band playing so took our beers to the completely empty Rookery stand to watch and appreciate them. A couple of stewards came up to us with attitude and told us to go back to the bar or we'd get thrown out. We laughed at them and they took no action, but the attitude they had about it still sits uncomfortably with me.

 

When Saracens played at the Vic, it did feel weird.

 

The stewards at VR are a bit weird, I went for a massive poo at half-time once after a heavy night and a steward was pretty much on all fours looking underneath the door as I was being 'suspicious' - he proceeded to enter as I left and he quickly learnt his lesson.

 

You poo in the ground? What sort of diseases did you pick up?

 

We all need a hobby.

 

Needs must, it was that or **** myself in the SEJ stand halfway through the second half (which wasn't great tbf as it was that 4th round cup game v Leeds)

 

He was dropping off.

 

Im pleased to see you escaped unscathed.

 

You're only as strong as your weakest link or whatever - and sadly the laws are made because of the latter. Small minority ruin it for the rest of us.

 

Drinking in the stands should be discouraged. It’s been a welcome reprieve this season to slope off to the bar for a pint.

 

It would be typical of the FA if they banned drinking in the concourse as they bring this in.