True,but once you have been the first time after a beer this narrows down to every 7.5 minutes.

I can't stand children running up and down public houses at six and seven in the evening whilst their parents are swigging pints and slobbing over poor descriptions of sunday lunch but children are not banned from pubs are they?

get a life.

I bet all of you lot complaining about this Fathers and Maybe some Mothers are the same people who used to just turn round and all over the back of our famous wooden stand (always wet).

I wouldn't see a problem with that. I don't see why it would have to be a case of one or the other. I don't drink at games most of the time, but sometimes I like a drink. I can see why people get annoyed when they have to keep getting up. If the average drinker goes to toilet once during a game, and you're on a row with 4 people drinking, that's 8 times a game you're getting up. And that's generous for some people who do that on their own! Kind of annoying for those that just want to sit and watch the game. But if there was a section for those that wanted a drink, then people can't complain if they're sat in it (plus that's where you keep the most stewards then because chances are that's where most trouble causers will want to be, which is not me saying that drinkers are trouble causers but trouble causers tend to have had a drink so they're more likely to want to be in that section).

Constructive addition to the debate. Well done.

Wonder if Martin Gleeson will ever play again? Him and longy were out in manchester last night on the lash,so maybe he is or has recovered? Still think he can perform at SL level.

Let's ban kids old people and pregnant women then , because they all have to "go" more frequently than average. I've even heard of people drinking either in their own homes or in the pub before the game. Now I'm no urologist but I don't think I'd be taking the P to suggest that those people may just have an equal need to use the facilities during the game. In fact if you think about it the chances are that someone having a pint [ijust[/i before the game in their seat - and so perhaps finishing it during the game is more likely NOT to need the loo until half time or maybe even full time. Those throwing it down their necks cos KO is approaching or having had 4 or 5 in one of the many watering holes around the ground are in fact more likely to be , literally , p1ssing everyone off. The going to the loo argument is spurious. A decision to stop drinking in the seats can only be based on the liklihood of people spilling it over everyone - hot drinks are worse - or that the very act of having a beer in your seat rather than somewhere else actually causes or leads to trouble. Does it?

No it isn't. I can categorically state that I had to get up less times last season than the previous one when drinking in seats was allowed.


That, and spoiling other people's enjoyment of the game by getting up and down more frequently, as referenced in the response above. The row behind me consists of 6 blokes who drank in their seats. I, my daughter, and my husband have all been recipients of a beer shower during the "beer in seats" era. None of us have received the same drenching, or in fact any drink spillages, from cups of tea or hot chocolate, either before, during, or since.


So why did we revert to no beer in the stands, then? Simple question.

It's clear you want to drink in your seat. It's clear to me that people drinking in their seats compromises my enjoyment of going to the game, through a combination of getting up and down more often and getting regularly showered in beer. It seems likely you will get your preference. Had I been aware of this, I would have changed our seats.

It's highly likely there will be drinking in the stands again this season. It worked well at the International and they sell a lot more beer.

What do you do at wigan and Hudds then where you are allowed to drink in your seats.

Sit somewhere where I'm not adjacent to people who can't go 40 minutes without alcohol.