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.

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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

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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.

Do people at cricket and rugby not spill beer, throw beer, drink too much? I'm happy with things as they are but Burnham's point seems to be it just applying to football (made whilst drinking a pint at Everton's ground watching a rugby league game.)

Carshalton- Arsenal are at Fleetwood in League Cup that night. No obvious reason for really early KO.

I almost got puked on before the franchise game in the west stand concourse as someone who clearly had a skinfull launched a puke projectile. I literally missed getting covered by not arriving a split second earlier. It bloody stank too. I agree in the 1980s on sparsely covered terraces leaning up against a crash barrier was a different time. Nowadays, if a goal goes in beer on the ground would get kicked over or somebody holding it would spill it. It's just Burnham trying to appear in touch with the common man and gesture politics.

It's good that we don't use Sparkular machines at Plough Lane.

Haven’t talked to anyone yet who does want alcohol in the stands. Interested to know what the youngsters think about it. Will have to watch a vlog.

Things change. Prior to the football beer ban, we played in Divs 2,3 & 4. At home or away, I would normally be standing on the terraces. Generally not very crowded - especially away from home. So beer was not a problem - plenty of space - can't remember getting beered or puked on on the terraces. Now it is all seating, and (especially at home) pretty full, we have potential problems that did not exist before the ban.

Bucks Womble - not just you. I find that and the players doing a lap of honour and fist pumping 3 times for a bog standard league game OTT too. All that lining up and shaking hands is needless too. Just get in with the game.

Apropos of very little, Jackson’s videos interviews always make me howl. Especially with the post-match ones, they usually finish mid-frame of him removing his mic the SECOND the interview finishes. Look out for it! Also on our interviews, is it only me or is it increasingly annoying that they always end with a ‘word about our fantastic fans.’ Think I find it a bit patronising that it happens EVERY time…

I'm more positive. We'll set out not to loses and steal a goal in the last 10 and hang on to win. Scooby Doo's Freddie* to get the all important winner