Good idea or not?

[PeterG]

edit to correct a spelling dont know why it did it twice

[Bigdave]

Might make me sit and watch a full 90mins if i could sip a beer in my seat.

Been to far too many s h it games where ive left early to go and get a drink. Especially as you can watch it in the British Queen

[twranger]

If its OK for Rugby fans to consume beer, why is it not ok for football fans ?

Think someone said it before - because football fans broadly speaking tend to be a different breed to the rugby lot and cannot sit still very long - having beer during the game would be a recipe for disaster....actually dont get why people are that desparate for a drink and cannot wait for 90 mins. Its not that hard is it?!

[MattyRangers]

I don't think it's a case of not being able to wait, it's simply a case if it being pleasant to be able to sip on a beer whilst watching the game. As I mentioned before, the "rowdy" few that get ****ed up do so anyway it's not like it's going to make much difference. You should cater for the majority for the minority IMO, and the majority are more than capable of having a beer in their seat without kicking off.

[Kit]

If its OK for Rugby fans to consume beer, why is it not ok for football fans ?

Because some Football fans don't know how to behave when they haven't had a beer let alone when they have had one ! I wish it was different but they are the facts, so to me it will be a bad idea. If football violence was to return on the scale of the 70's and 80's, added to the price it costs these days to attend matches and TV coverage now, then attendances would fall very sharply indeed.

[loneranger]

Really can't see the issue with not having a drink for an hour and a half.no way am I going that time without me luxuries though and that's why god invented the bullet.thanks god your the best.

[MattyRangers]

Really can't see the issue with not having a drink for an hour and a half.no way am I going that time without me luxuries though and that's why god invented the bullet.thanks god your the best.

Looking past the fact you class a pocket sized vibrator as one of your "luxuries" - surely a football match is the last place you should using that?

[Ed the Ball]

Football fans could be allowed to drink alcohol in their seats for the first time in almost 30 years if a campaign led by Ipswich Town gets the go-ahead


I like the off half pint of shandy and enjoy a beer in my seat at the cricket and also Rugby but dont think I would enjoy it at football

Alcohol needs to be banned, bring back prohibition full stop. Scourge of the nation is alcohol.

[loneranger]

Looking past the fact you class a pocket sized vibrator as one of your "luxuries" - surely a football match is the last place you should using that?

You weren't so high and mighty when I stuck it in your arsenal at home last season.

[MattyRangers]

You weren't so high and mighty when I stuck it in your arsenal at home last season.

My voice was high but that was only because you put the bl00dy thing in sideways. Woulda been fine otherwise.

[TBLOCKRANGER]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gqU8blVehc

They should also throw in cigarettes, the geezers who come round with programmes should also carry Stella and Benson. Be like the theatre with icecream.

They could pause the game if the queues become too long.

[twranger]

Alcohol needs to be banned, bring back prohibition full stop. Scourge of the nation is alcohol.

Not sure if this is a sarky remark or not....but taken at its face value, I agree wholeheartedly!!
Smokers get targeted...why not drinkers?

[MattyRangers]

Alcohol needs to be banned, bring back prohibition full stop. Scourge of the nation is alcohol.

[loneranger]

Not sure if this is a sarky remark or not....but taken at its face value, I agree wholeheartedly!!
Smokers get targeted...why not drinkers?

I'm sure both sets swell the governments coffers a fair bit so am guessing the smokers drain it a bit more than the boozers.but most people I know that proper like the booze adore the fag n all.maybe they're just racialist.

[MattyRangers]

I'm sure both sets swell the governments coffers a fair bit so am guessing the smokers drain it a bit more than the boozers.but most people I know that proper like the booze adore the fag n all.maybe they're just racialist.

The money smoking & drinking make the government must be astronomical. Not to mention how much money alcohol generates & jobs it creates, thus helping our economy massively; imagine every bar, nightclub, pub and brewery shut down?