18pts rings abell - all pts gained in games where Darlington was played

Wasn't it 3 points per game played, 12 iirc, later reduced to 3 for totality.

Can someone remind me of the initial Jermaine Darlington punishment meted out to us, and what it was subsequently reduced to? I feel like what City have been found guilty of is a lot worse, and on so many occasions - let’s watch them get a £100k fine or something ludicrous….

Strange it is the same error that has been made a number of times. It never even occurred to me encroaching at a penalty could result in an indirect freekick to the opposition. It was simply a retake so what has made more than one ref think differently and what were his linesman doing as surely one if them must have known this was wrong. This sounds dodgy to me.

Yeah, Pep knew what was coming down the road….

Sounds like Pep got out just in time!

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Meadow and 6M - good points. Great one from Alan IoW too :)

The plus side of drinking on the terraces in the premier league is that if a team scores, you lose your drink, so you buy another and lose it again when VAR decides it was valid all along.

Only thing in our favour is Cambridge have conceded 10 in 7 and 5 in 3 at home so there will be goals on offer. Can we keep another clean sheet tomorrow?

Goals stats suggest either a narrow win for Cambridge or a draw. Nothing suggests a win for us. I wonder who would take a draw now.

Danny Ings signs for Wycombe

A key fact is that quite simply football is different. It’s a different entity from rugby or cricket or tennis. The others are sports or entertainment. Football is more than that. It’s ok to treat it differently because it is different.

Not going to argue with any of that OI but I only have a vested interest in beer at football. If it was allowed in the stands I'd be reasonably safe where I sit in the West Stand but the away games could be more problematic, when there is a different type of audience to those who only do home games. For the Notts County play off first leg, it was hard to get from inside rhe turnstiles to the vomitory to even get to your seat as it was packed with our supporters throwing beer everywhere. If that became the norm it would put many off.

6MDM - people complain, including on here, about beer being spilt, thrown and being puked on at rugby and cricket games. I'm sure at county championship games there is nearly a whole stand for each spectator but at The Hundred and many international games it is at least as bad as football. 80K at Twickenham don't behave impeccably either. I think we should extend the ban to such events as well.

Unless Burnham has been misquoted (entirely possible) then it didn't come across as an off the cuff reply to a random question. Politicians are black belts in dealing with random questions and rarely get caught off guard.

That’s the bit that does it for me too Meadow. I can put up with people coming and going but you just know that in safe standing areas those plastic cups are going up in the air when a goal is scored and that a percentage of them will have urine in because of the amount of alcohol consumed versus the desire to not leave to use the toilets…

a4e, I don't want it trialled in safe standing. I don't want a beer shower if we score a goal. There's a guy in my row who turns up half cut and sometimes ends up next to me and manspreads. He goes out before halftime and comes back even more unsteady on his feet.

A Pint in the Alex is far more preferably than a pint at the stadium

Man City found guilty of all but one of 115 charges

6M/OI - I think Burnham was caught off guard by the question, randomly asked by some hack or other - in a way, he’s damned if he does and damned if he doesn’t say this or that on this topic; if he’d said “no way, definitely not” to beer on the terraces, people would say “aha, he thinks we’re all scum at football matches, typical champagne socialist” (which may or may not be true…), etc. In truth, it’s probably immaterial, as I doubt the police want it, and it’s they who have to, well, police games - my issue is the getting up and down we’d have to do in the seated stands, but they could trial it in safe standing zones maybe? Some people glug down a couple of pints or more during half time (or just before the start of the game) and it all comes back up soon because it’s gone down too quickly - the only positive I can see from allowing beer during a match is that some may drink it a bit slower, reducing the chances of puking it all over others (this happened to us away at Gillingham a couple of seasons ago, a shit day all round…)…

The Nelson Arms showing the Cambridge game .

$6MD - hope it was the same guy that was up-chucking by the door from the covered area into the pub about 10/15 minutes before kick-off, otherwise there'd have been two of them and that would be even more worrying

Cricket is a totally different sport, with totally different crowds and totally different emotions. There is no emotional equivalent of a goal being scored in cricket and it isn't as fiercely tribal. I've never watched rugby (either code) live so don't know how that compares but would guess it is in between cricket and football for generating emotions. It's not just goals. Bad tackles. Refereeing mistakes. Tempers flare enough as it is, let alone while getting more drunk. I'm not aware anybody has asked for this change so why bother? Watching football in hospitality whilst drinking in view of the game is one thing. Doing so in a crowded stand is another.