[Albion] Water bottle tops / Argus court report

[scoobiewhite]

Must be bored as I somehow found myself skimming though the Argus court reporting and noticed this...

“STEPHEN WALKER

Aged 27, of Peterlee, County Durham, admitted throwing a plastic water bottle onto the football pitch at the American Express Community Stadium, Falmer. Fined £120, with a £30 surcharge and £85 costs.”

My assumption would be Newcastle away fan?

The report was not prominent at all and I wondered how often these minor prosecutions occur, especially as the bottle top ban got so many peeps all riled up!

 

[Is it PotG?]

Time to put a lid on all this.

 

[Seagulls over Essex]

Time to put a lid on all this.

No point in bottling it all up.

 

[Doc Lynam]

Seems like a water tight case.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

So as far as we know, an away fan and the Arsenal manager are the only one's charged or in trouble for launching a bottle at the Amex and yet we, the supporters, the paying mugs, are penalised. Great.

 

[Knocky's Nose]

He threw the plastic water bottle onto the pitch, but....

Did it have a lid on, and if it did - did it make a difference? If so, how? If it didn't - what made it less dangerous, and finally - if we can all (hypothetically) choose to throw our plastic bottle at the pitch anyway, why not ban all bottles of liquid and introduce in-seat drinking fountains?

The official line is `no bottle tops as if/when the bottle is left in an aisle where an emergency exit is needed, it becomes a 'trip hazard' as it won't collapse if you stand on it'. However, on the pitch it's not the same - there's loads of room, and 22 able bodied athletes to dodge them.

I'm confused.

 

[Blues Rock DJ]

All this controversy over water bottles and our own PC Balkham , who is 'working' at the Womens' World Cup in the south of France (£££££££££££££££ !) advises supporters to take bottles of water with them to matches !!

 

[el punal]

Oh for flasks sake! Hasn’t this been done to death?

 

[studio150]

All this controversy over water bottles and our own PC Balkham , who is 'working' at the Womens' World Cup in the south of France (£££££££££££££££ !) advises supporters to take bottles of water with them to matches !!

With or Without bottle tops

 

[TottonSeagull]

Must be bored as I somehow found myself skimming though the Argus court reporting and noticed this...

“STEPHEN WALKER

Aged 27, of Peterlee, County Durham, admitted throwing a plastic water bottle onto the football pitch at the American Express Community Stadium, Falmer. Fined £120, with a £30 surcharge and £85 costs.”

My assumption would be Newcastle away fan?

The report was not prominent at all and I wondered how often these minor prosecutions occur, especially as the bottle top ban got so many peeps all riled up!

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

The official line is `no bottle tops as if/when the bottle is left in an aisle where an emergency exit is needed, it becomes a 'trip hazard' as it won't collapse if you stand on it'. However, on the pitch it's not the same - there's loads of room, and 22 able bodied athletes to dodge them.

The club is fooling no-one with that 'reasoning'.

 

[Monkey Man]

I'm not particularly het up about the bottle top thing but three or four times last season I found that someone behind me had knocked their Coke or water over and the contents were creating a waterfall under my seat, where a coat or jumper might normally be stowed. That's a bit of a pain.

Having said that it's probably karma as my kids used to cause the same problems for the people in front of us when they were younger, and that was when bottle tops were allowed.

 

[Justice]

What a mug spending £2 on a bottle of water that wholesale costs about 10p

 

[Gazwag]

All this controversy over water bottles and our own PC Balkham , who is 'working' at the Womens' World Cup in the south of France (£££££££££££££££ !) advises supporters to take bottles of water with them to matches !!

There are probably quite a few people who have jobs in football that have been asked to work at the Women's world cup this summer, are they doing it for free then

 

[RandyWanger]

Anyone tried to throw one of those plastic pint 'glasses' they serve you at the Amex? Can't think they'd fly too well.

 

[Blues Rock DJ]

Oh for flasks sake! Hasn’t this been done to death?

so you reply ?

 

[el punal]

so you reply ?

Humour by-pass or tongue in cheek? Audience, press your keypad now.

 

[Spiros]

What a mug spending £2 on a bottle of water that wholesale costs about 10p

Especially when the very same outlet is obliged to give you a glass of tap water for free if you ask for it.

Before the bottle top ban my daughter invariably bought a bottle of water or diet coke before a game. As the top is now taken away and she doesn't want to spend £2.20 on something which gets knocked over after less than half has been drunk she now has a free glass of water instead - usually a pint in a plastic glass. If they lost loads of revenue on drinks because of bottle tops (and let's face it there must be quite a margin on the bottles of drink being sold) then maybe some minds will get changed.

 

[Bulldog]

Is that really the official reason?

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

I haven't found the bottle top/flask sanctions strongly upheld in al other PL grounds.