[Albion] Thrown out for taking a beer to seat

[AlbionBro]

Pretty thick thing to do, tbh.

Maybe he thought he was at the cricket.

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

Sneaking the odd hip flask in is one thing bit back in the Withdean days, I seem to recall @Herr Tubthumper getting a bottle of champagne into the ground to celebrate one of the promotions.

We also managed a large birthday cake and a knife to cut it with at one game!

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Maybe he thought he was at the cricket.

You mean being treated like a valued customer as opposed to being treated like an incipient criminal? Well that's just crazy talk

 

[Terry Butcher Tribute Act]

Loads of this at the women's game last week - except the beers wete confiscated and nobody thrown out.

 

[studio150]

Category 2 offence, which carries a 5 match home ban for the first offence, plus possible loyalty points deduction.

A costly error if a genuine oversight.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Sneaking the odd hip flask in is one thing bit back in the Withdean days, I seem to recall @Herr Tubthumper getting a bottle of champagne into the ground to celebrate one of the promotions.

We also managed a large birthday cake and a knife to cut it with at one game!

Ha ha yes, that was one of the back-2-backs.

 

[BNthree]

Exactly. We don't know what went on beforehand, maybe the said invidual had been previously warned that no alcohol was permitted to be taken pitchside . . . but he went ahead anyway.

Nope, like I said I saw it all. He walked out to the seats with a pint glass in his hand. No sneaking or smuggling and just didn’t know the rules.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Nope, like I said I saw it all. He walked out to the seats with a pint glass in his hand. No sneaking or smuggling and just didn’t know the rules.

Seen it multiple times with football tourists in the North. They are just completely oblivious to their misdemeanor. Never crosses their minds that they're doing something wrong. Down to the stewards to gently steer them back on to the concourse

 

[Drebin]

I think it's easy to under-estimate the ignorance of people who don't go to football very often when it comes to the rules. I've taken people a couple of times who have been really surprised that they couldn't take drinks to their seats. Someone going along for the first could easily just wander in and sit down with a drink if the stewards aren't on the ball. Throwing them out in that situation is ridiculous.

Back in the Championship days (a decent win v Bolton) my friends and I took another friend who’d never been to a game before to the Amex. We had been enjoying the refreshments (leathered) and didn’t notice he’d taken his drink into the stand. After two minutes we all stood for an Albion chance, he took a big sip of his drink, and had three security guards onto him in a flash. We didn’t see again until after match. Apparently the security guards said he was the politest person they’d ever thrown out. Harsh.

 

[BiffyBoy]

Convinced some dickhead who used to sit near me would smuggle a beer to the seats by pouring it into a tea cup or two and putting a lid on it. Haven’t seen him for a few seasons so can neither confirm or deny that the above is a long term workable solution.

Less of the dickhead. It was cider not beer.

I contacted the club to move seats as the fella next to me spent the entire game talking about the Simpsons.

 

[Driver8]

I had a Moretti from the machine in West Lower last night. My god it was awful. AI might be taking over the world but it can't pour a pint.

The one and only time I used the machine in West Upper a load of flies flew out when it poured my pint.

 

[rippleman]

I must admit that a few years ago when we were allowed flasks, I put Baileys in mine. It looked the same as milky coffee, but people must have wondered why I was sipping it so slowly. Sorry PBOBE I wouldn’t dream of doing it now!

Ah-ha! I had never been able to work out the "thinking" behind the flask ban. Now I know

I look forward to you explaining how you managed to get bottle tops banned.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

Maybe he thought he was at the cricket.

Maybe he thought he was at Horsham YMCA.

 

[Official Old Man]

Similar to the Wolves fan in front of me I mentioned before.
Stewards were just going to take his pint off him but the verbal abuse he gave back meant he was taken out.

 

[dstanman]

Always plenty of new people at games who do not know the rules and the signs by the steps are small or people standing in the way of them. If he didn't cause a fuss and first offence would seem a bit harsh being ejected.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

I think it's easy to under-estimate the ignorance of people who don't go to football very often when it comes to the rules. I've taken people a couple of times who have been really surprised that they couldn't take drinks to their seats. Someone going along for the first could easily just wander in and sit down with a drink if the stewards aren't on the ball. Throwing them out in that situation is ridiculous.

What we don't know however was what sort of **** the drinker called the steward

(A red-nosed one is my guess).

 

[HeaviestTed]

It is probably easier for the club to have a zero tolerance policy - it is an actual law, like all laws it isn’t a defence to not know it exists.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Yeah, you have to wonder if they took the beer off him and he just thought "screw this, I'm not staying to watch this without a beer" and left of his own accord.

Started to get abusive when they said he could go back.

 

[Dick Head]

Convinced some dickhead who used to sit near me would smuggle a beer to the seats by pouring it into a tea cup or two and putting a lid on it. Haven’t seen him for a few seasons so can neither confirm or deny that the above is a long term workable solution.

How did he manage to smuggle the lid in?

 

[Justice]

The rest of Europe can happily drink in the stands without killing each other.