Drinking in View of the Pitch E-Petition

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coyneeee said:
How would it slow down the drinking? You're allowed to drink as much as you want if you're stupid enough to pay £4.50 for a pint of out-dated Fosters, but once you're stumbling about you're breaking an arrestable offence. The law is there as a warning sign to slow down drinking - If it ain't broken don't fix it.
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A lot of people force down a pint at 2.45 and two at half time. By spacing out the drinking and allowing people to take it to their seats they are less likely to drink at pace.
 


Que sera sera said:
A lot of people force down a pint at 2.45 and two at half time. By spacing out the drinking and allowing people to take it to their seats they are less likely to drink at pace.
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It doesn't matter what the people inside the stadium do. It's the people who have a pint at Gatsby's from 11am or whatever pre-match.

If they get drunk by 2:45pm they have already broken the law. Now your suggesting that they'd be allowed to grab extra drink and sit at their seats. The logic is totally flawed.
 
coyneeee said:
It doesn't matter what the people inside the stadium do. It's the people who have a pint at Gatsby's from 11am or whatever pre-match.

If they get drunk by 2:45pm they have already broken the law. Now your suggesting that they'd be allowed to grab extra drink and sit at their seats. The logic is totally flawed.
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Not at all. If they are drunk, they should not be served whether they are in Gatsby's, the stadium or wherever. It is still down to the licensee whether they get served. The licensee is ultimately responsible. It is not an extra drink, it is the same drink drunk over a period of an hour rather than 15 minutes.
 
James said:
Nah, getting covered in Fosters when we score a goal is not my idea of fun. I'm happy with the current law.
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Unlike being covered by Bovril which is hotter then napalm? :lol:

People should be treated as adults. If they want to drink in their seats, it should be allowed. It would also reduce the congestion at concourse level
 
Que sera sera said:
Not at all. If they are drunk, they should not be served whether they are in Gatsby's, the stadium or wherever. It is still down to the licensee whether they get served. The licensee is ultimately responsible. It is not an extra drink, it is the same drink drunk over a period of an hour rather than 15 minutes.
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It is extra drink, because no one would just grab "1 drink" - they'd grab 3 or 4 to prevent them running back and forth and within the 3 or 4 drinks some people can hack it, some people can't. And the people who can't are breaching yet another law within the Sporting Events Act by being drunk within a Football ground.

It is probably impossible to re-consider the law unless they'd re-consider the Entering a Football Ground whilst intoxicated law also.
 
Kauto Star said:
Unlike being covered by Bovril which is hotter then napalm? :lol:

People should be treated as adults. If they want to drink in their seats, it should be allowed. It would also reduce the congestion at concourse level
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Bovril has a lid on it.

You could reduce concourse congestion by introducing a pre-paid card scheme like they have all over Europe, you can get served in 5 seconds and move out of the way. It only takes an age over here because we piss around with coins and the staff are generally hopeless.
 
Kauto Star said:
Unlike being covered by Bovril which is hotter then napalm? :lol:

People should be treated as adults. If they want to drink in their seats, it should be allowed. It would also reduce the congestion at concourse level
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Tbf though, people don't throw full cups of bovril around to look hard and 'zany' with their mates?
 
James said:
Bovril has a lid on it.

You could reduce concourse congestion by introducing a pre-paid card scheme like they have all over Europe, you can get served in 5 seconds and move out of the way. It only takes an age over here because we piss around with coins and the staff are generally hopeless.
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The lid doesn't stay on when the fucker is chucked though.
 
SAFC_Jack said:
Christ, can they revise the Football (Offences) Act 1991 while they're at it? Dogshite piece of legislation that.
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Yet there are still those that glorify the yobbish, thug filled hooligan culture as if they were fighting on the beaches of dunkirk or part of the parachute regiment entrenched at arnhem.
 
Went to a game in Hamburg during the summer, drinking on the terraces was fine, sold beer throughout the game too, and no-one died. The bloke next to me didn't see much of the match mind, passed out after about half an hour.
 
jsdftm04 said:
Tbf though, people don't throw full cups of bovril around to look hard and 'zany' with their mates?
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You're right marra, but the issue here is the utter morons that attach themselves to football, not the issue of drinking in your seat.

James said:
Nobody is going to chuck a Bovril. People will and do chuck half/quarter pints.
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I've seen it done mind - particularly at the derby
 
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