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.

You can walk away from d*ckheads in the street - you don't have to sit next to them for an hour and a half.

My dad is a die hard Saints fan and the behaviour of many (not as small a minority as some would have you think) puts him off going to the GF. He goes to every other game home and away pretty much.

Having said all that, my train gets in from Guildford just after midday and I'll be straight off to the pub

Does that mean the people watching on the TV in the pubs can't drink?

Heard that the rozzers have banned fans from "drinking beer from anywhere you can see the pitch" on Saturday. Bang goes the plans for Syd sat in his padded seat with a 2 pint pot in each hand.

Given events on Sunday at HJ, I cant say Im surprised but its bad news that, effectively we are being treated like the football fans. A real shame.

Hasn't that been the case for a few years now? Although it has never really been enforced, at least not in the areas I have been sat.

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Hope it is enforced to the letter this year.I've had enough of idiots spilling or through ale all over the place and having to get up every 5 minutes for someone to go the bar.