Thread 151375919

Wait.... do Brits seriously not drink while watching the game? You aren't allow to have a beer at your seat???

>>151375919 (OP)
The Premier League is infamous for sucking the fun and soul out of football. They sell their soul and eagerly take random tourists over loyal supporters because tourists tend to spend more on average since it's an "event" for them
High ticket prices, no standing sections, no beer. But tons of event zones like at Tottenham's stadium, where you can spend a lot of money on 5000 things. I may be living in yesteryear, but I will always prefer a stadium where everything revolves around the actual sport ... and where you can hear that during the game as well
But granted, all of that selling out business has ensured that the Premier League is the richest and most competitive league today. Hardly any of the clubs are owned by Brits, and none are fan-owned, but the league itself is a good product. The Bundesliga has cheap tickets, the stadiums are full and loud, the clubs are usually fan-owned. But I don't see why any non-German would watch it, and the quality is certainly below the Premier League. I guess you have to suffer one way or the other

Every other sport gets to drink except men's football.

You got a loicense for that bevvie??

>>151376048
What the hell is "fan-owned" even mean?

>>151376075
grim.

blame violent scousers

>>151375919 (OP)
A bunch of high profile matches aren’t even allowed late kick offs so fans don’t spend the day drinking away before the match itself

>>151375919 (OP)
They were drinking beers in the stands at the London NFL game on Sunday

>>151376160
British football fans have only themselves to blame. It's the scum class getting treated how they deserve. There are never problems at the rugby because it's a better class of person.

>>151376160
Clubs belonging to the members of the club and not a "owner"

i just want /int/cels to die

>attempt to drink a low-ABV beverage in the UK
>immediately get arrested by muslims
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN

>>151375919 (OP)
Have you ever seen Mexico play? If they don't like how a game is turning out, it's beer showers for everyone on the pitch. If they're still allowed beer in the stands, how did Englel fuck up so badly to where they can't anymore?

Its the browns, isnt it?

>>151376172
>a bunch

only celtic v rangers

>>151376179
>There are never problems at the rugby because it's a better class of person
lel its becuase no one gives a shit enough to attend rugby matches dont kid yourself tarquin

Ever since Hillsborough, politicians and officials have vowed to stamp hooliganism out of the game. The ultimate result is that matches are now safe to attend, but utterly soulless. If you go to any other sporting event in this country (including women's football), you can enjoy a drink in the stands no problem.

>>151375919 (OP)
Kek Yeah the cunts can't handle their drink.

>>151375919 (OP)
this offends me more

>>151376248
This is progress. Thanks leftists.

>>151376180
"belonging" meaning they get zero percent of any money the club gaisn through transfers or anything else and they're only allowed to have a say in extremely minor issues and they pay a fee for it

Wait a minute, this is actually real? They won't sell beer at soccer games in the UK? I thought I was being trolled. What's stopping the fans from just getting hammered before the game anyway?

>>151375919 (OP)
After the Football Lads Alliance nearly overthrew the government all rights got destroyed for football fans.

>>151376287
>What's stopping the fans from just getting hammered before the game anyway?
They get sobriety tests before entering the stadium and have to turn in their ticket if they fail

>>151376179
>no one cares about rugby
seriously, go kill yourself

>>151376380
if you have to advertise your final's attendance, it means your regular attendance isn't very good

>>151376277
>this is how people who didn't oppose their clubs getting sold to sheikhs and burgers cope so they can sleep at night while they hope their overlords don't fuck them up for profit

>>151376287
>What's stopping the fans from just getting hammered before the game anyway?
Nothing. You can even buy beer inside the stadium in the concourse, you're just not allowed to bring your drink to your seat. So you will have to down your drink before the match starts, and if you buy a drink at half time then you need to down it before you head back to your seat. Yes, it's absolutely retarded, blame Liverpool fans for the law being introduced.

>>151376499
we haven't been brainwashed into thinking the english ownership model is perfect like you have with yours.

>>151376542
Projection master here, I see
I don't think it's perfect, I'm the first one to think ultras get too much leverage for actually showing up reliably despite having little to no clue or interest about the actual business aspect, which is important of course. I also think our approach is flawed since we do have the exceptions of Wolfsburg, Leverkusen, Leipzig and (partially) Hoffenheim
But yes, it is by principle better than having something that is cultural and a thing of local pride and identity depend on an international entity whose primary allegiance is profit, leading to horrors like multi-club networks that defy every aspect of sportive integrity. For every successful owner, there's at least one Malaga or a Valencia situation. I'd rather have things in my own hands, even if I have to share that with idiots next door

>>151376525
>blame Liverpool fans for the law being introduced.
cope and seethe

>>151376588
problem is you think english clubs being owned is a new thing, it's been a thing since before germans knew what a football was and english football has always thrived. if your gripe is they're foreign why don't you care about foreign footballers as well? why do you care about the nationality of billionaires?

>>151376654
They literally introduced the Sporting Events (Control of Alcohol etc) Act 1985 in direct response to the Heysel disaster.

>>151376160
scousers what you going to do

>>151376176
It only applies to pro football. I get shitfaced watching my non league home town team

>>151376675
>why don't you care about foreign footballers as well
Who said I don't? I'd love my local club to field more Germans, especially more people from my city/region
And if there has to be an owner, I think it usually makes a large difference whether that owner is from your region and perhaps even a genuine fan or some guy who treats it as a financial asset. My club does have a sponsor who is very rich and from the region. He's a bit controversial, I don't think I'd want him to control the club as a whole. But I don't doubt he's a fan, and I think that makes him more reliable than a total outsider. You can have owners all you like, even though I fear this always leads to a loss of fan identity when money is prioritized. But yes, I do find having foreign owners who also own other sports entities terrible. I think that's a lack of allegiance and reliability most of the time. And if my club sucks, I'd rather know it sucks because it just can't do better for the most part instead of it being an owner's strategy
I am well aware that I am very idealistic

>>151375919 (OP)
You can drink at the concourse but not at your seat. This is only in football. Football hooliganism was a serious issue in the 1980s, this was one of the "solutions" but most likely forcing stadiums to become all-seaters (at a certain tier in the league pyramid) probably did more to break up hooliganism.
Other sports are unaffected. Drinking all day at a Test cricket match is amazing.

>>151375919 (OP)
the last time i've attended a football match some dumb broad spilled 4 pints and 2 pretzels over our seats

>>151377474
I would have munched down the pretzels

>>151377572
>flag
of course you would

>>151377667
Not gonna let some tasty german pretzels go to waste

>>151377667
SAAR DO NOT REDEEM PRETZEL SAAR

>>151377667
yes I do love delicious food

>>151375919 (OP)
It's the sole 2 x 45 mins most of them will ever spend awake without pint in hand. Besides, I'm sure there were probably some, uh, *very fucking valid reasons* why it got banned in the first place.

>>151378308
Ummmm cats aren't supposed to have garlic, it's toxic to them. Garlic is very often in salami.

>>151375919 (OP)
Thatcher banned it

>>151375919 (OP)
Yes, and in due course it'll be banned elsewhere, inshallah

>>151376287
In the Aussie version of nascar they limited fans to one case of beer each at Bathurst. Fans were caught breaking in the week before the race to bury beer. True story.

>>151376690
shame the Belgians didn't introduce better building regulations really

>>151375919 (OP)
The UK is a sharia islamic state anon of course you cannot buy beer at the stadium

>>151375919 (OP)
>>151376075
>>151376172
Wait. This is a real thing!? As if soccer wasn't gay enough. My estimation of European men in my eyes just fucking plummeted.

feel bad for brits tbqhwy

>>151376248
the changes to spoons have been heartbreaking over the last 10 years. people slag it off but i always liked them, there's not many pubs that don't just blast shit music all the time and serve good food. now i have to pay extra for peas :'(

It's one of a thousand things they have done to prevent ultras. I don't know about the U.K but in Sweden it seems to have worked, ultras are pretty much gone and football and hockey have become more family friendly events like in NA

A few still exist in football but I think they're getting bored, there's noone left to fight with

>>151386210
>European men in my eyes
Why do you have European men in your eyes?

>>151390372
>ultras
We never had ultras in the UK. Hooliganism was over before those ultra faggots appeared in gay countries with their fireworks and crystal palace fans should give it up too. Benders

>>151382143
also salt

>>151375919 (OP)
We used to, a lot, but it kept ending up like this

We have to drink in the designated drinking stands.

>>151376277
Bayern season ticket prices are like a quarter of those at Arsenal. And that's to watch a better team, because Bayern usually rapes them 5-0. This is a directly observable result of the difference in ownership structure.

Only in Scotland can you not buy a beer at all at a football match, you just aren't allowed to drink a beer "in view of the pitch" in England.

>>151376196
>both rugby codes, cricket, tennis, golf, ice hockey fans all allowed to have a drink
soccercucks seething. Every other sport is fine.

>>151391052
all absolutely irrelevant sports tarquin

if "ruggers", cricket, tennis or golf attracted the numbers that the footy does you'd see the same problems

>tarq outs himself
go drink your pint of piss

>>151391052
I had genuine culture shock when I was in Scotland once and went to a supermarket in the morning because the aisle with alcohol was chained off.

>>151375919 (OP)
naturally alcohol is prohibited in the islamic caliphate of england

>>151391228
Daily reminder that Scottish people and alcohol don't go well together

>>151391081
None of this changes the fact that football is gay as fuck.

Drinking beer in the stands is next to go here.
First the media began targeting "beer throwers" during games, then KNVB introduced a rule that any cup being thrown would halt a game. Every game from that point on was halted for a while. At the same time a minister randomly proposed to ban alcohol sales at all sports clubs (amateur clubhouse included) but this was bounced since all amateur sports would go bankrupt.
This was like 1 or 2 years ago, I don't know what the current situation is but I'm certain they will try again.

/mug/ bros...

>>151391358
This would be the problem here nowadays. Deanos love to throw their pints in celebration. Imagine lobbing a £7 pint and then waiting for the VAR check.

>>151390286
Our local Spoons is decked out something like the garish ‘70s Vegas hotels in Fear and Loathing…, it’s an interesting vibe when bladdered

>>151391228
yeah, supermarkets (and petrol stations, etc) can only sell alcohol between 10am till 10pm. Pubs, or in Glasgow at any rate, mostly aren't allowed to start flogging alcohol before 11 a.m., although there was few 'workers pubs' like picrel you could start drinking in at 8 a.m. A condition of these licenses was that 'food' had to be served with the drink. So, there'd be a single roll sitting on a plate at the bar that would get passed around anytime someone bought a pint. It was considered bad form to eat the roll.

>>151386210
> Europeans

We're talking about Brits.
Europe see them as you see Canada: a cucked country happy to be cucked and literally asking for more.

>>151392159
>random EU country #5

yeah, scousers ruin everything
ruined standing too.

>>151375919 (OP)
Need a drinking in your seat loicense. Very difficult to attain.

>>151386210
it's literally because of fights in the stands and rivalry games kick off early in hopes that people can't get drunk enough to start shit, how is that gay?

>>151391216
>those tarq league towns like Wigan, Hull, Castleford and Widnes.
>t. paki who thinks "white = posh"
post your skin colour ahmed

>>151390737
why are brits so bad at holding their alcohol and controlling themselves

>>151376075
Overreaction or are hooligans really that bad?

>>151393006
the 'British disease' was so bad, even cartoon characters felt the need to speak out