Well if Posh aren't interested, I'm not sure the Chickens will be.

Bradford manager fucking off to Preston apparently so there willl be a vacancy. Wonder if JJ will fancy it or if they will fancy him

You know that you want to be the one to bring it home [Link]

Yeah and that's double bubble right because for those who wish to stay indoors, watch the game through the glass and have a Peroni or two that leaves a seat out in the actual stand.

Trigger, the interesting part of that will be can you then put seating by the windows and covertly increase capacity?

OI - definitely a sitting/standing issue, yes - no problem with it if we are all standing, but crazy to expect everyone to get up every couple of minutes from seats…. Anyone needing a good pub for Saturday, this place is small but traditional and lovely (30 mins walk from the stadium…) [Link]

I still remember the beer rainbows at an ACDC gig. Somehow SwinDon and I didn't get soaked.

Not a boxing fan but good to see Joshua v Fury fight will be in Cardiff in December rather than going to New York

With rugby there's a less of an incentive to go back and watch the game I suppose.

On the occasions that I've seen people with a drink in the seats in the West Stand, they do appear to have the look of chaps who'd usually frequent Twickers HQ

International rugby apparently is plagued by old gits drinking copiously then having to make several trips to the loo to let it out

Good bit of straw-man research - a good friend of mine takes his kids to watch Maidenhead fairly frequently because the standard of football is good enough for them to be interested in it but the ticket price doesn't bankrupt his family. They got relegated down to a level where it's permitted to drink in view of the pitch again. He says it's had a noticeable negative impact on the atmosphere and he doesn't go as much now as a result.

Unless it was Guiness 00 it's breaking the law?

And beer in the seats is exactly why I only ever went one 20-20 game at the Oval. Half pissed idiots doing Mexican Waves with a pint in their hand or chucking it in the air if a boundary or wicket occurred. No thanks!

There is no skill more valuable than being a properly good bar person and nothing more annoying than a crap one.

Against Doncaster a chap in the block to my right was drinking a pint of Guiness during the game??

Late 80s,early 90s the half moon had the best ever barman,would serve 3/4 people at once, and considering how loud that back room and little bar could be always got rounds correct.

Well spotted, Trig. Of course!

Is it a terrace/seating issue? I wouldn't be drinking during the game now but used to quite enjoy a pint whilst standing at Plough Lane and also at Leyton Orient with a colleague who was a fan there. I think on the whole it is a bad move to bring it back now. The same with gigs, standing with a pint at the Half Moon Putney was fine, people pushing past seats at the Rainbow or hammersmith Odeon, very annoying.

Anyway, it probably won’t happen, the police will probably have the final say…

I wonder whether he wants to change the rules so that hospitality suites can keep serving alcohol rather than pilling the blinds down and kicking everyone out.

The problem is, clubs financially will do well out of alcohol being allowed in stands so they will probably want it. Surprised that Burnham is for it as I had him down as someone who understands the typical match day goer, not a day tripper.

A4e - oh God yes! We went to a really good gig (as everyone else calls it) at Hammersmith Odeon last year and the band - Dead South- were really giving it their all while the audience just drifted in and out of the bar. Awful idea.

Maybe the mobile guys with the tanks of beer on their back will be roaming the stands

No to beer in the stands - we all know those who sit near us and who leave a few minutes before half time and then arrive back late during the second half, and if they can’t cope without their booze, that’s their problem, but if beer is allowed inside the stadium, we will all be having to get up twenty times per half to let people in and out non stop rather than just the once or twice as it currently is… (and that’s without even mentioning all the inevitable spillages others have already highlighted).