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Football booze ban to be lifted?

carpediem991

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May 31, 2011
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The idea of allow it now is just stupid.
In Germany they consider letting people in again without selling alcohol.

And its obvious why. We are still living in a pandemic were you should keep social distancing. That alone will be hard enough at football games to achieve, but it is hopeless when lots of alcohol is involved.

Lets just be happy when we finally can watch football in a stadium again first.
That alone could still take some time...
 

riggi

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Jun 24, 2008
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Let them take it back to seats, but limit when it can be sold.
Sell it up to 5 mins after kick-off, then stop selling until 5 mins before half-time.
Sell it up to 5 mins into the 2nd half then not until full-time.

That will stop all the piss heads going backwards and forwards during the match.

This is one of many reasons why standing should be allowed. 10x worse having to sit then stand then sit then stand again.
 

riggi

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While i'm absolutely the type of person who loves a beer shower after growing up at festivals and metal & punk gigs, I don't see why it needs to change. It's three quarters of an hour, if you can't go 45 minutes without needing a drink then you should probably re-assess your drinking habits.

Or is this to cater for all the recreational pharmaceutical enthusiasts who find half time a bit tight to get a sniff and a pint in?

Not been to the new stadium yet, is the fine art of speed-smoking in the toilets at half time still a thing? Every few minutes a steward pointlessly leans in and sighs and mumbles, "no smoking in the toilets". I miss that.

Don’t bother. Keep your memories.
 

Sweech

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Jun 27, 2013
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Well it's their fault they have sports you need to be sloshed in order to forget how tedious the game they're watching really is.

I don't really believe anyone actually likes baseball. It's just a place where people show up to get drunk while something occasionally happens to be going on on the pitch.
Totally agree about baseball being boring and sucking in general.

I also enjoy American football but the amount of time taken for commercials and replays is horrendous and tedious.

That said hockey, lacrosse, and basketball are all great exciting sports.

Plus let’s not act like football fans aren’t sloshed during the game too. I know plenty of friends that get done up quite well before the game and grab pints at the half as well. Pub culture is way larger in the UK than it is here and I’m actually somewhat envious of it.
 

FibreOpticJesus

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At the Champions League final last year they had people walking up and down the steps with beer dispensers on their backs and card machines, you didnt need to leave your seat to get a pint. I thought that was a cracking idea (especially seeing how bloody hot it was) Maybe that's their thinking, keep people in their seats rather than hanging around the concourses in big groups, or queeing up during the match to bring trays of beers back to their seats?

What they dispense in those machines is vile. Why would anyone buy a pint of alcohol based chemical water?
 

wirE

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<Now is not the time to be thinking about bringing alcohol into the stands. People forget when they're drunk that we have an pandemic on our hands. Seen people sharing cigarettes and tasting each other drinks out on town. Not to brag but got picked up the other weekend and when I said that I wouldn't have a night cap because of covid; the answer was "Ah forget about that for a while and come home with me". So here I am, hospitalized and breathing through a tube :D
 
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