Fans set to be allowed to drink alcohol in their seats during matches. Good or Bad move???

[Alan Whittle]

I've never heard of groups of mates going to a cafe to watch football, but they do go to a pub.

Cafes don’t have TV’s?

 

[Toffe3m4n]

Could actually end up having a positive effect on some of the misery arses that follow the club.

 

[LocalNative]

This is great - however will have to wear shitty clothes from now on as you'll get covered in booze whenever we score

 

[Nobby Nobbs]

Never understood why on safety reasons they banned drinking alcohol in your seat but allow people to drink boiling hot tea, coffee etc, would rather have a beer spilt over me than a boiling hot drink.

 

[Johnnytotal]

Street end = White lightning
Upper Gladys = Horlics
Bullens - mild
Park end - Stella
Top Balc - Pimms
Main Stand - Merlot

 

[lancs blue]

No doubt the stands will be awash with piss as well as the bogs

Can see those in main stand a target from top balcony

 

[lancs blue]

Street end = White lightning
Upper Gladys = Horlics
Bullens - mild
Park end - Stella
Top Balc - Pimms
Main Stand - Merlot

Is ryipnol the choice for exec lounge

 

[Armaghtoffee]

Everton fans just aren’t the type to be throwing beer around the place. We are better than that Ingerland Kopite whopper stuff.

 

[Preki]

This is great - however will have to wear shitty clothes from now on as you'll get covered in booze whenever we score

Agree. Was in Germany watching Monchengladbach Vs Leverkusen a couple of years back before a night out in Cologne. Our seats were by the away fans and when they equalised it was like Niagara falls. Soaked.

 

[andy4efc]

Personally I'm not really fussed about the idea of getting an ale while at the match itself since I alway avoid buying the overpriced muck and instead just get more at the pub before and after the game. That being said It does my head in that I'm treated like a hooligan by default that can't be trusted to have an ale in sight of the pitch. You don't get treated like this in other sports, just football because there's an outdated, negative perception of what a football fan is. Its always been a ludicrous rule, you can have as many overpriced ales as you want downstairs but a few ales with the pitch in view and we're all gonna start throwing hands? Behave. Its nonsense and always was.

Is it outdated tho? Like always the minority but still plenty of baboons who go the match who have no interest in football and are just their for a fight. Never forget the ones who set a firework off on the coach at Chelsea away. How thick can you get?

I agree though. I don’t drink but it’s a daft rule really and stops 90% of decent folk having the choice

 

[Papa Shango]

If someone is going to be a drunken mess at a match it will not be caused by 90 minutes sat in their seat. Cant get much drinking done during that time.

I don't really drink or get the obsession with alcohol in this country though.

 

[RomanReigns]

lots of sticky bus seats after the match

 

[Gwladysstreetlad]

Is it outdated tho? Like always the minority but still plenty of baboons who go the match.
I agree though. I don’t drink but it’s a daft rule really and stops 90% of decent folk having the choice

Not only is it outdated but it was massively misunderstood to begin with. There's always plenty of knobheads at every type of event (sport or otherwise) but you won't hear about them as much because those events happen far less regularly and far less people attend them. The only reason you hear about drunken yobs at the football more then anywhere else is because nothing else in the country draws crowds like that regularly enough to even be compared. What else can you say honestly draws literally hundreds of thousands of people to hundreds venues all across the country pretty much every single week? If Rugby (League or Union) or Cricket or Boxing or live music events or anything else attracted that many people at that many different venues all across the country every week then I guarantee that you'd hear way about drunken yobs at those events. Unfortunately there will always a minority of idiots whenever there's a large group of people, its just football has a far bigger audience then anyone else and thus has a bigger minority of those idiots to deal with.

 

[WA Toffee]

Cafes don’t have TV’s?

I've been in plenty that do

 

[PhilM]

I have no real issue with the principle of being able to drink in your seat as it works perfectly well in many places abroad and within other sports here in the UK.

Nevertheless, whether people want to admit it or not football here is often its own individual beast. Can I be arsed with ale being chucked after a goal? No.