The Poolie Bunker

I see 4 women's Football teams are going to allow drinking in their Stands during a Trial spell.
If successful it could be rolled out more widely.
Wonder if it would be rolled out to the Men's game??

Beer all over if a goal is scored, no thanks, seen it when people watch footy in a bar, beer is thrown up in air when who ever scores. Are people so desperate for a drink they can’t go 90 minutes without one ?

might not be as bad with the lasses as most will be drinking shorts. agree about anybody who cannot last 90 minutes without a pint. i,d put food in that catogary also. its this booze and football that seems to go hand in hand nowadays. only done it once and missed a couple of the goals by having to go for a regular piss in a pools victory so stayed well away from it since.

To add I get no pleasure drinking from plastic glasses more so in the N.E. bleak weather.

I would have thought that lasses who attend footy matches are every bit as bad as the lads, most of them will be well capable of downing a pint in one in accordance with modern culture. Personally I would need to be legless after several pints to watch women’s football.

Male football fans just can't be trusted with drinking in the stands... there'd be beer flung everywhere. No thanks.

When West Hartlepool RUFC played at Victoria park you could drink on the stands but a week later when Pools played you could not.

It shouldn't be so but I suspect the "Powers that be" still live in the 70s and 80s and have no interest investigating whether the 21st Century football fan can be trusted to have a beer without needing a fight afterwards.

Lessons haven't been learnt..Who would want to see a return of this kind of thing.They must have short memories..

https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/131 ... hooligans/

fans cannot be trusted to stand with opponents fans and need segregating every game never mind if they get extra ale in them. cannot be just a coincidence that fights develop after closing time rather than before they open and earlier in the night. drugs might not help but that happened before they were widespread.

I live in Copenhagen and you can drink in the stands here (FC København is my local club). In fact you can buy 6 pints at once and they give you a handy cardbord gizmo with a handle to carry them in if you want. No one ever seems to get too drunk as most people stick to two pints with games being usually on a Sunday or a weekday. Then everyone goes home on their bikes afterwards. Loads of young kids and lasses there and hardly ever any aggro. No-one chucks their beer up in the air at club games (it's about 8 quid a pint and you'd get chucked out).

If it's European competition game or a competitive international they switch to low alcohol beer (not no alcohol - just weaker).

Danes .they nearly always top the heavy drinking leagues..It must be a nightmare standing a round or trying to keep up with them?

possibly its a case of the british disease of having to be pissed up to have a good time has not crossed the north sea.

I think it's more of a problem over in EU countries now than over here now regarding football hooligans..Why the change you may ask..And at least in the old days nobody asked for a pre-match fight in a local forest like they do in some of them old eastern bloc countries do now..

Fuck that for a laugh!!!

Recently went to watch Western Sydney v Wellington Phoenix. Had a pretty good skin full and sat in every part of the ground with several beers in hand; home and away sections (although got kicked out of the vip area). The stadium was great but only full when the rugby league team play (80 odd thousand'ish I think).
The atmosphere was pretty dreadful. It was like being in a park on a sunny day - lots of people and families chatting.
There was a thousand or so behind the home goal doing that dreadful european thing where someone stands on the fence looking at the crowd leading the singing (this one had a megaphone) and they all join in. Noisy but I don't reckon any of them watched more than two minutes of the game.

Sounds like my idea of hell apart from the weather and the drink.

It was rubbish. Apart from the drink, weather and a young Australian copper (female) who went as a backpacker and stayed.