Why Do We Put Up With It?

[bad company]

Us footie fans are treated like poo. Attend a game and you are likely to be herded like sheep by the police and\or stewards, likely to be searched and worst of all not allowed a drink in view of the game. The whole system seems to assume that everybody is hooligan. Surely in this day and age and particularly with the use of CCTV to watch the crowd they could relax some of the draconian rules.

The final straw for me came when I bought some bottled water but was not allowed to take it with the top on the bottles. Apparently one fan peed in a bottle and threw it, so deal with this one idiot not all of us.

Why do we put up with it?

[Puggit]

I don't!

Went to Wembley for the play off final with my 6 year old - no way I'm paying Wembley prices for food/drink. Packed a picnic full of food (which is allowed) and then hid various cartons of drink around a multi-sectioned rucksack. Got all 4 cartons in undetected

[Mr Jenks]

Bottle tops is not a new thing, and not related to peeing in the bottle. Drop an empty bottle with no top and stand on it, it collapses. Now put the top on another and try, can be a bit like log rolling. Thats the issue for the stewards.
Its not just for the football though, same at any concert. Bottle tops removed before going in to Wembley on Saturday night, not even allowed to take a sandwich into the O2 on Sunday night, even though it had been purchased from one of their over priced shops inside the main doors.

[Gargamel]

Cricket fans manage ok.

[paulwoof]

Gargamel said:

Cricket fans manage ok.

a ODI cricket or 20/20 atmosphere at football would be brilliant, test match atmospheres can be a bit boring except for when youve got some aussies to noise up.

theres never really any trouble, alot of the time it turns into a big party atmosphere, with fun from both teams and a little bit of poking fun at the opponents,

where as football, opposing fans are seen shouting every obscenity under the sun at each other, it just makes all football fans look bad. there is a line between poking fun at the opposition and just hurling abuse, and there seems to be plenty of football fans who don't know when to stop at that line.

the bottle tops and beer prices have always been bad, its not that much of a drama to go without a bottle top, just dont knock over your 2 quid bottle of water, although it wouldnt require a genius trouble maker to bring a bottle top in from outside, put it in his pocket then put it on the bottle and throw it.

its a shame that for the most part, most football games go on without any trouble, but we still havent got rid of the minority of idiots who appear every now and then and hold us all back from being trusted normal members of society, i suppose that will always be the case with such a popular sport than you cant detract yourself from the undesirables.


in reference to cricket, i believe their was a fight in the crowd at the cricket the other day but it was the foreigners, so at least it wasnt us.

Edited by paulwoof on Tuesday 18th June 21:22

[AC43]

Puggit said:

I don't!

Went to Wembley for the play off final with my 6 year old - no way I'm paying Wembley prices for food/drink. Packed a picnic full of food (which is allowed) and then hid various cartons of drink around a multi-sectioned rucksack. Got all 4 cartons in undetected

I want to Wembley a couple of yeas ago for the England Wales friendly. It was a dry match!!!! Never again. The football was dire, being stone cold sober made it even worse.