So I take it that you got trouble last night then Finlay!Quote:
Originally Posted by Finlay Harp
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So I take it that you got trouble last night then Finlay!Quote:
Originally Posted by Finlay Harp
The sad reality is that if beer was allowed to be openly consumed on terraces/in stands at EL games, incidents of trouble would arise/increase. I could even see it inevitably resulting in, or contributing to, a situation where it was felt necessary to reverse the decision. Particularly given how rubbish the stewarding, segregation and lay-out of most of our grounds is.
Analogies with horse-racing and greyhounds are just naive. Football clearly attracts a different demographic and has a dramatically different culture, atmosphere, history and dynamic.
Personally, I've never understood why people are that desperate for a drink that they will go to any length to smuggle in a few cans of nasty dirt-cheap booze into a football match. Sad that they can't survive for 2hrs without a drink.....
nah the Harps fans were there to watch a game of football and support our team, not to get involved in mindless violence. If that went on in Finn Park, im pretty sure the "fans" involved would be chucked out and barred.Quote:
Originally Posted by mcgonigle
Not me personally. I am long enough in the tooth attending games around Europe to know when to keep back from getting involved with scumbags not worth it! Your support leaves alot to be desired!Quote:
Originally Posted by mcgonigle
At the last game in Cobh last year ( against rovers who needed a point to win league) a lot of rovers fans got past security and brought their drinks out of clubhouse and then started to pelt our keeper with drink (what a waste) at first but then with glasses....scary stuff
Well said - we need this carry-on like a hole in the head!Quote:
Originally Posted by The Man Himself
What planet are some of these people on and what responsuble parent would allow children into a booze-filled atmosphere.
I do think a pub attached to the ground/ owned by the club is a great idea. Dundalk must have made a bomb last night, but unfortunately some people cant be trusted to behave. Its a pity that just a small section of people can spoil it for the real fans.
Not entirely true. I was on the Curva Sud last April for the Roma-Lazio match and there were bars open in the stand and bottles were being sold by sellers walking around (and then every bottle got thrown at the stewards and police :D).Quote:
Originally Posted by Dodge
You sure it wa alcoholic?
I was sure it was but you're after putting doubts into my head. The game is all a bit of a haze. The general mayhem seemed to suggest it was alcohol but then they dont need alcohol for that.
Both the Faeroes and San Marino had beer on sale in the ground, maybe little countries get away with it.
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Originally Posted by Bomb Landsdowne
Absolute nonsense.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rams-07
Every club should have a bar as it generates income. However drink shouldnt be allowed to be taken from the bar onto terraces.
KOH
While visits to Oriel Park normally prompt that sort of a reaction, in fairness to the natives Sam, I think they've left all that sort of stuff in the past.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sam_Heggy
I've supped official ale in the stands in Germany and at a UEFA Cup Final in Denmark. And yes, it was full strength. I can barely remember the penalty shootout.
It'd be a great idea if people could be trusted to be responsible, unfortunately that's asking a lot.
Maybe if it was given a trial at a few grounds? Personally I'd love to see it and the reality is that fans just get ****ed before they go into the grounds anyway and often sneak drink in so the overall level of drunkeness probably wouldn't go up that much.
Agreed.Quote:
Originally Posted by HolylandsMan
The type of fans who are going to cause trouble and get stupidly drunk if beer was available at the games are the type that do it now anyway. I hate being punished for idiots behaviour. They'll be idiots regardless.
The stuff in the Faroes was either alcohol free or low-alcohol, I forget which.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bald Student
You could buy four pints at a time in Paris during the Ireland/France game. They even gave you a tray so you wouldn't spill any going up into the stand. :D
The pikey's that were having a go at us last night - the last thing those idiots needed was been allowed to drink.
In Sweden they have "low alcohol" beer, had a few glasses at Djurgardens v Cork a few years back, looked and tasted like Coors Light.
When in Paris for Derry's game last year one of my companions, along with a few hundred Derry men, queued for the whole of halftime to get me a glass of "Amstel Free" claiming it was the pint he owed me!!!
It was awful **** but I'm pretty hazy on the rest of the evening so it must have had some sort of inebriating value!
That was definately low/no alcohol.Quote:
Originally Posted by fbtn