Aye, the riff raff do find their way into them. So if someone is sat at the table, sipping a pint, blinds are closed at all times. Genuinely interested to know.
Have you ever tasted Pimms? It tastes like cheap cranberry juice,you get in a carton from the corner shop. But someone added a dash of Blossom Hill and a pint of jizz to the rancid blend of horse sweat and haggis.It is clearly someones job to wipe the greasy finger prints off the keyboards of the grand pianos of the rich and famous and distill under Margerat Thatchers nightdress. We'll win on Saturday.
No, it was a 3 o'clock kick off. Quite a few things are ground regs and technically not a police matter but they get involved or the stewards contrive a situation to involve them. If clubs employ the full amount of stewards they can say they don't want police in the ground but Humberside Plod (and some others) wangle ways of having a presence. Compare how few police are in the Emirates for crowds twice the size of those at the KC for instance.
When the game is on if anyone is drinking alcohol the blinds should be closed. I hope you aren't suggesting myself or the others there when I was in the box are riff raff?
They often quote the guidance for justifying certain measures, but it is just that, guidance, and there's some latitude within it, and that's used on other occasions when it suits. The guidance refers to the law, and that says it is an offence to posess alcohol in any part of the ground that offers sight of the pitch...two hours before and one hour after the game. For some reason, the law applies to rugby union too, but only in Scotland. What percentage do we lose for unreserved areas? 10%? The guidance says it may be in the region of between 5 - 10% depending on local circumstances. I wonder why we seemingly get the maximum? If Police are deemed (by someone) to be required, it's the Police that decide the numbers and deployment. There's been another edition of the guidance since the one that's from, but I think the changes are mainly related to training and terrorism.
I've been in a box several times and they're rather over-zealous, just stand anywhere near the doorway with a pint and two minutes later a steward will come and ask you to move. There's no free drinks in the boxes PLT, someone always has to pick up the tab.
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All rather amusing really as you can get pi**ed before entering the ground and on some of the performances of late it would be preferable to be so.
Strictly speaking, you can pass a breathalyser test and be road legal, and still be arrested for trying to enter a stadium under the influence of alcohol. It's seemingly more dangerous to be in charge of a static plastic seat and surrounded by officials than it is to drive a car.
Mmm, the technicalities of our laws are something I'm not all the clued up on DMD, at times they are down right baffling.
There's no prescribed limit for how much alcohol you can have in your system to be deemed 'under the influence'. It's down to the opinion of the officer, which makes it difficult to defend. All they need is to smell alcohol and describe your behaviour.
Though that's true in theory, in reality barely anyone is ever prevented from entering a ground because they've had a drink, even people who are falling down drunk still usually get in.
Of course, but if you're a guest on some company's tab, you've got an unlimited supply. A lad I used to work with used to host the company's guests in one of the boxes and even he ended up pissed every time.
Of course it's true, and in harsh reality rather than a theory that's why I put it. It's perhaps different in the Tigers Prem. I know of several that have been refused entry and some arrested and charged but not falling over drunk. I know plenty that have been refused entry at various grounds. None of that's the point really. It was more a tongue in cheek comment about being able to turn up pissed.
I went to meet some mates in the Totesport box after a game during our first Premier League season and the boss was asleep under the table.
You're far more likely to get ejected for being pissed in the Premier Club than you are anywhere else in the ground, though in the boxes you can generally get as pissed as you like as you'll only annoy your mates.
That's for different reasons though, as slightly different rules apply, even though it's the same legislation. I was more referring to the rules that apply to the bulk of fans, which from experience, are as I put in my tongue in cheek reply to C'mon ref.
What I find strange about this law is that it doesn't apply to players drinking champagne on the pitch after they've won a trophy
