Security last night

Any idea when they allowed alcohol sales inside football stadiums?....I started going in the 1960's and I only remember soft drinks and tea/coffee/bovril being sold.

 

I also started going in the 1960's and alcohol was definitely sold underneath the stand. In fact, alcohol was sold in one section and all non alcoholic drinks/foodstuffs in the other.

 

We used to stand on The West Stand terrace and always had a bottle of pale ale at half time.

 

You must only be 10 years old then pal, boxing events have been always been notorious for a scrap outside the ring

 

It was a pain in the arse yesterday. Me and my son seemed to be sat in the middle of a drinking contest. A few could barely stand up, constantly pushing past us, spilling beer everywhere. It does say in the T&Cs that people appearing intoxicated wouldn’t be served and would be asked to leave. If they’d chucked out anybody pissed near us we’d have had the block to ourselves.

My mate said he saw people who were going to the boxing openly doing coke in the market kitchen in the afternoon, not even bothering to go to the toilets or try to hide it. That’s as big an issue as booze for violence at public events. It is quite pathetic when you see grown men picking fights with each other, because they can’t handle what they’ve drunk or snorted. I’ve got so I rarely go to away games any more, cos of the behaviour of some of our fans. If they were allowed to carry on boozing throughout the game I’d never go.

My son hates it, probably because he’s seen the state his mum has got in so many times, and he knows the equation. Arsehole + booze/drugs = violent arsehole.

 

It's got far worse, as has horse racing heavily fuelled with cocaine use.

 

Thanks....I can't remember that at all!!

 

The fact you can’t drink in front of a football game is stupid. You can drink as much as you like before in the concourse before or at halftime or at a pub before but once you’re in front of football it becomes a problem? But at other sports it’s fine? It’s based on history and absolutely ridiculous

 

Wasn't banned until 1985