Alcohol ban?

[shorehamview]

Do you know this to be true?

Even if the people fighting had drank, would this be explicit evidence to suggest it was what started the fight? It would be a reasonable assumption to say that 80% + adults in the ground had drunk before the game; so if alcohol is the cause of this, then why not more fights?

Surely other factors are at play as the root cause - centered around personality rather than drink.

Certainly the personality of the drinker has a part to play, but the drunk bloke ready to kick off and start hitting people near him that had committed the heinous crime of asking him to sit down so that they could see the match from the seat they'd paid for was probably the type of bloke who would fight straight after breakfast. And this was at Wembley, around six seats or so from me. There is plenty of anecdotal evidence that people were drunk and people were fighting. Some of the fighters were drunk, some of the drunks were fighting.

 

[shorehamview]

They're probably roped into a contract with Carlsberg or Carling or whatever pissy lager they sell. The club should look at doing a deal with Kelham Island or Thornbridge (?) in the future

If the club had a deal with a local brewery selling local real ale what are they supposed to do with any leftovers? Considering the factors of keeping and selling real ale versus keg shit, that's been filtered and pasteurised, then it's no contest. If they'd had proper beer on sale now it would all have been chucked after the Scunny match was postponed, because by the next home game it would have all gone off.

 

[awblade]

Possibly but a lot of people now see away matches as a chance to have a 'few pints' and then go onto the match. This does create a more aggressive atmosphere, more so than say ten years ago,

I would say that our away fans have got much younger overall in the last ten years though as well, which adds to it. As a lot can't handle their drink too well, I know I am one of them! Thankfully I don't drink much at matches

 

[Highbury_Blade]

If the club had a deal with a local brewery selling local real ale what are they supposed to do with any leftovers? Considering the factors of keeping and selling real ale versus keg shit, that's been filtered and pasteurised, then it's no contest. If they'd had proper beer on sale now it would all have been chucked after the Scunny match was postponed, because by the next home game it would have all gone off.

Theoretically at least, they could share the booze with the Copthorne, so if the game doesn't go ahead they just shift the booze to their cellars. If they had vertical stillages, then the booze could easily be lifted onto a sack truck with disturbing the sediment.

I would have to the logistics of it would probably make it not worthwhile though.

 

[wizadry]

Presumably they could provide ponchos like those supplied at Disneyland and Alton Towers for people who don't want to get wet when some dickhead starts throwing ale around.

And people like me? What the fuck is that supposed to mean? People who don't like going home covered in stale second-hand expensive crap lager? People who don't shake like a shitting dog when deprived of drink for 45 whole minutes in a row? People who can function without the need to get leathered every time they go to a football match? People for who alcohol isn't the be-all and end-all?

I get all this,but i think one of the points being raised is that other sports get them but football doesn't.Now i'm only playing devils advocate here but what about the people that can't get to the ground until kick off time? They might fancy their first pint of the day while watching the club they go to watch every weak.This isn't my way 'btw',i have a couple before and a couple after to let the traffic die down.

I do get that you would certainly get bellends chucking it all over when we scored(not much mind) and i wouldn't personally want me and my lad to sit in the boozer after the game saturated,that wouldn't be enjoyable,but i do think they could have certain sections in the ground where they could designate it to.

 

[Highbury_Blade]

I think it'd only take a couple of bellends to receive a shoeing for it to sink in that that sort of behaviour isn't really on.

 

[Highbury_Blade]

Presumably they could provide ponchos like those supplied at Disneyland and Alton Towers for people who don't want to get wet when some dickhead starts throwing ale around.

And people like me? What the fuck is that supposed to mean? People who don't like going home covered in stale second-hand expensive crap lager?

What about if you got covered in Abbeydale moonshine instead?

 

[Pollingtonblade]

I think class A drugs are required to watch the tripe served up at the Lane this season, not the piss weak ale they serve! As regards why Footy fans can't drink I've been to Darts and Cricket and along with thousands of others have drunk throughout the spectacle and not seen any bother.

 

[Rodders]

Football does attract a special kind of nobhead that other sports don't that would think nothing of chucking the bottle/glass at the players (even thought it would be plastic). It will never happen.

 

[jt64]

I think class A drugs are required to watch the tripe served up at the Lane this season, not the piss weak ale they serve! As regards why Footy fans can't drink I've been to Darts and Cricket and along with thousands of others have drunk throughout the spectacle and not seen any bother.

At least as far as darts is concerned I've heard reports of fights every week at the premier league

 

[Fulwood Blade]

I was at Twickenham t'other day. The combination of freezing cold weather and folk necking pints throughout the match meant I was up and down every couple of minutes letting someone get past for a toilet trip.

Absolutely - my biggest gripe ever at the lane - these numpties who don't go to the toilet before we kick off - zero brain cells.

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