Yid
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It's a good policy to support... Even though clubs and anyone else associated with football doesn't like it... Ie hell never have to put it in practice...
spurious
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I'd like to know more about this. From a North American point of view, drinking in the stands is no big deal. There are assholes who take it too far, of course, and they get sorted. How is it different over there? I'm aware of the history with the firms and all that, but would like to get a current perspective from a matchgoing fan.
But if you just say "footy's different" I'll invite you over here to go see a smalltown ice hockey game.
Havocc
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English fans have a habit of throwing their plastics cup of beer in the air when a goal is scored.
People don’t want to be covered in beer.
Thats seems to be one issue, along with people who don’t drink due to their faith, or choose not to drink alcohol.
I do find it strange how people have reacted to this and the concerns. People will drink as much as they want regardless of where they can drink. Even now, most fans will quickly down a pint so they don’t miss much of the game.
I also find it weird how no one mentions how bad drinking at other sports are. The worse I have ever seen is England V Australia in the cricket. All day drinking, people collapsing behind the stands, fights breaking out and abuse everywhere. It was carnage
People don’t want to be covered in beer.
Thats seems to be one issue, along with people who don’t drink due to their faith, or choose not to drink alcohol.
I do find it strange how people have reacted to this and the concerns. People will drink as much as they want regardless of where they can drink. Even now, most fans will quickly down a pint so they don’t miss much of the game.
I also find it weird how no one mentions how bad drinking at other sports are. The worse I have ever seen is England V Australia in the cricket. All day drinking, people collapsing behind the stands, fights breaking out and abuse everywhere. It was carnage
Yid
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I would argue that if you can't live without it for 2, 50 minutes stints of your life, once a fortnight, then you'd be better off spending your money on rehab than a football match...
You can drink before, many do, you can drink at half time, many do, you can drink after, many do... Why does it need to be out of the terrace...?
However, getting through Spurs games will probably require some form of "pick me up", so there are exceptions...
You can drink before, many do, you can drink at half time, many do, you can drink after, many do... Why does it need to be out of the terrace...?
However, getting through Spurs games will probably require some form of "pick me up", so there are exceptions...
SpursStone
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I would never use the word 'footy'I'd like to know more about this. From a North American point of view, drinking in the stands is no big deal. There are assholes who take it too far, of course, and they get sorted. How is it different over there? I'm aware of the history with the firms and all that, but would like to get a current perspective from a matchgoing fan.
But if you just say "footy's different" I'll invite you over here to go see a smalltown ice hockey game.
What I will say though is that people are idiots, not all, just a small minority. Yet enough to cause huge issues. I don't fancy wearing a pint if we score... especially if VAR ruled it out 4 mins later! Would cause a lot of trouble.
Choice would be good, and I hate the 'nanny state in the UK' although the ban on drinking in view of the pitch works, better to be safe than sorry I feel.
When I was in Bilbao for the EL the stadium was 'dry' as are all Spanish stadia, fair play. I have a few pints before a game (depending on the KO time) and a few after. I don't need a drink during.
Havocc
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If you drink everyday, your an alcoholic
Dave
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It's such a ridiculous notion tbh....Are we trying to bring back the 80's ?
Those plush padded seats would be useless in a scrap on the terraces anyway.
Those plush padded seats would be useless in a scrap on the terraces anyway.
USspur
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NFL games are a shit show. Keeping alcohol out of the stands is a good thing. I don't see it ever being undone here, but I would say keep it the way it is there
SpursStone
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Perhaps that's for another thread?
jaxdermot
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what about every 24 and 1/2 hours.... 🫙
Style And Glory
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Yeah, being from Canada, I didn't realize this was a big issue. Here you can have your drinks delivered to your seats. I don't drink, not that I haven't, but it appears that, elsewhere, there is a deeply ingrained pub culture where many feel they should drink.
SpursStone
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Watched Andy Burnham on BBC Kuenssberg this morning, I thought he came across really well. Proof is in the pudding though PM, let's see what you set out on Tuesday
SpursStone
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WALOB
"It may have been Scotland Yard, I don’t know. We worked with a lot of them. We had them under view for a long time, and we got them."
www.bbc.co.uk
"It may have been Scotland Yard, I don’t know. We worked with a lot of them. We had them under view for a long time, and we got them."
Trump says men arrested over RAF Fairford incident had been 'under view for a long time' - follow live
Five men were arrested on suspicion of preparation of a terrorist act after three suspicious vehicles were reported to be travelling towards the RAF base.
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Just seen that Suella Braverman covered herself in glory again last night on Question Time.
Rocks for brains
Rocks for brains
Yid
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Pure evil... She is a sycophantic, self obsessed, psychopathic, power driven witch...
She makes Priti Petel look like mother Theresa...!!!
arlothefinch
Player in Training.
Braverman on QT is usually just the same talking points with the volume turned up. Proper audition tape for another leadership run.
SpursStone
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These Reform people are nuts! Jenrick on the boats...
Jenrick said on TalkTV earlier: "If we need to use lethal force then they will be able to do so. That's obviously not what we want to see happen. We want to see these people picked off the boats in a sensible and reasonable way and taken straight back to France"
Jenrick said on TalkTV earlier: "If we need to use lethal force then they will be able to do so. That's obviously not what we want to see happen. We want to see these people picked off the boats in a sensible and reasonable way and taken straight back to France"
Yid
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Jenrick, serving the people on super yachts by telling everyone to look at the poor cunts on rubber dinghies fleeing war torn countries...
Jenrick, serving the billionaire tax dodgers by telling everyone to look at those on benefits who are just trying to fucking survive...
Jenrick, helping those with ownership and major stakes in oil burning energy companies that are irreversibly damaging our planet and continuing to hold the entire fucking world to ransome, by telling you that net zero isn't real and that the worlds climate changing Infront of your fucking eyes as your house floods and is blown away by a hurricane, isn't real...
Proper cunt...
E.T.R
SpursStone
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Looks like the polls are finally showing the Reform bubble bursting...
YouGov
13 October 2026
yougov.com
YouGov
13 October 2026
- Labour: 24% (-3 from 4-5 Oct)
- Conservatives: 23% (+3)
- Reform UK: 21% (-1)
- Lib Dems: 12% (+1)
- Greens: 11% (=)
- SNP: 3% (=)
- Restore Britain: 2% (-1)
- Plaid Cymru: 1% (=)
- Others: 1% (-1)
Voting intention, 11-12 October 2026: Lab 24%, Con 23%, Ref 21%, LD 12%, Grn 11%
Latest YouGov Westminster voting intention figures
yougov.com SpursStone
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Man of the people! 
www.bbc.co.uk
Andy Burnham defends Gogglebox appearance after Badenoch criticism
Burnham says he "makes no apology" for the move as Kemi Badenoch says she is "amazed" he has time.
www.bbc.co.uk SpursStone
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I wonder if John Healey will again resign over the chancellors refusal to raise defence spending...
Ted the Yid
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I thought he did by finding £4.7 billion from other departments?
SpursStone
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The government is all headlines and no substance.
Ted the Yid
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Government's tend to be.
Yid
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He did...
Yid
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Are there clouds you should be shaking your fist at...?
SpursStone
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Nah, not always. Burnham and his crowd are just headlines.
For example, here's £100 everyone (almost)... Oh wait a 27% increase is coming in Jan..
Have you anything constructive to contribute?
Yid
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Have you anything positive to contribute... Your glass seems to be half full all the fucking time...
If you look at things negatively they will ultimately be negative for you...
Labour ain't Labour anymore, we all know that... But they ain't the Tories or the far right extremists,l. This budget was cautious in a world that is risky as fuck... This PM does not have a mandate, he is running on Starmers wicket and until that changes... I think Jan/Feb if you're interested... We won't see them go for the change Burnham talked at length about during the season... A generational change to how this country operates... I'm down for trying some of that.
I expect some big Reform scandal over Christmas / early Jan and Labour to capitalise on that negativity to drive them into obscurity with the electorate and the hapless Tories being the Shadow government...
I would like the Greens to recapture some of their gusto. While they are a little wild we need them to be pulling enough clout that Labour and anyone else actually interested in not fucking the country up the arse for the top 5% wealthiest or basically being a racist cunt, pull back left a bit and bring that Overton window with it...
SpursStone
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Nah, I look at things realistically. I look beyond the headlines this government like to post, trying to win over the tic tok and insta generation.
I agree, although I think it could be sooner. Early Dec maybe.
The Reform bubble burst months ago. The decline is almost done. Behind Labour in almost all polls for the last month or so, some polls have them behind The Tories.
The Greens stopped being 'Green' a few years back
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