Different rules for those classed not to be idiots like the rest of us?

Part of law mate, Football Spectators Act 1989.

Appreciate that BG but its not Football as defined by the act which says:

"An Act to control the admission of spectators at designated football matches in England and Wales........"

I've also done an adobe word search for "alcohol" in the pdf version of the Act and there is no reference to no alcohol at your seat. Are you making this up?

Just because its a football stadium doesnt mean everything that happens in that stadium has to abide by football regulations. What about dual stadiums like KC and DW. It all depends on the governing body which is hosting the game which the RFL. For example Wembley doesnt serve alcohol at all when they are hosting international matches because they are governed by FIFA which dont allow it but when its the FA cup final or anything like that the game is governed by the FA and alcohol is served on the concourses.

That was always my (obviously incorrect) understanding of the situation.

If my memory serves me correct, it was banned in 2009 and I remember the stewards constantly going into rows of seats to take ale of people. Wasn't the fighting in 2008 not 2007?

There was definite fighting in 2007, that was the worst of it. Walking back up the road to the coaches it was like a war zone.

2007. It was actually a horrible atmosphere that year. But 2008 and 2009 both seemed fine, and the ban was in place for both those years (but not exactly strictly enforced on either occasion).

Does it matter? I and the rest of the yobbos will be have been on the ale since midday. In some of their cases, from about 9/10am. If that isn't enough for unruly behaviour, I don't know what is.

It was probably different across the ground as it was very strictly enforced where I was sat last year. I was unlucky enough to be sat on the end of a row and had a steward or two blocking my view for most of the game as they attempted to retrieve rogue bottles of budweiser.

Must say that last year I had a beer in my seat, I didnt buy it, not a fan of buying over priced botles of warm ale, but a mate bought a few and just walked back to our seats with them...didnt realise we were not supposed to drink in the seats, to me this was the first year a ban on ale in seats was put in place, I was obv wrong though !

Were not going this year because of the drinking. You get people drinking from dinner time, right up until kick off, and it just causes so much trouble. The sooner they change the kick off to early afternoon, the better. We saw plenty of people drinking in their seats last year too.

Gonna start drinking an hour earlier now then..Yes i'll be drunk and I wll be respectfull, enjoy the game and not go fighting...Some people can get drunk, have fun and not be a tit

Hideous over-reaction. You get the odd isolated incident out of 70,000 people, that's it.

If you walked out in the streets of your local city with 70,000 people about, you would expect to see the same.