Sneaking in booze to games

[No Fixed Abode]

Who does this? Like a smallish bottle of rum or a hip flask, so you can mix it with a coke from the kiosk and happily sit there getting drunk whilst watching the game?

[Optimist]

LOL! And of course stewards will not suspect anything as 20,000 people hold binoculars at mouth level

[Compo's Hat]

I've never known anyone to use a hip flask with a mixer.

[moo]

I just get my daughter to carry my booze up in her empty cup of coke. Good girl.

[Royal Lady]

And there's me having my miniscule handbag (that only just manages to hold my phone and a packet of fags) searched "for alcohol" every frikking game.

[robinsfriday]

Stunning piece of kit. Is it Christmas yet?

[Harpers So Solid Crew]

And there's me having my miniscule handbag (that only just manages to hold my phone and a packet of fags) searched "for alcohol" every frikking game.

Are your eyes glazed over as you await to enter the ground??? And have you commented to the club, I seem to recall you did but cant remember the outcome

[mr_number]

And there's me having my miniscule handbag (that only just manages to hold my phone and a packet of fags) searched "for alcohol" every frikking game.

I guess your reputation's preceding you here, RL....

[2.8 lita injection]

Look at this

http://hideyourbooze.com/index.html

[TBM]

I just mix vodka with coke, they've not "smelt" it once - although i had the lid taken from me once

[Rex]

And there's me having my miniscule handbag (that only just manages to hold my phone and a packet of fags) searched "for alcohol" every frikking game.

Started early RL.

[Stuka]

They only seem to search your bags so a hipflask hidden about your person shouldn't be a problem.

[Royal Lady]

Yesterday, I had my little tiny bag with me (just big enough to hold my iphone and a packet of fags + lighter) - I try and go through the turnstile and I'm stopped by a steward. "Excuse me I need to look in your bag" - so I open my bag - which reveals an iphone and a packe of fags, plus lighter. I ask "what is it, exactly, that you're looking for?" "I have to look in your bag" "Yes, but WHAT are you looking for? What do you think I might have in my bag?" "Offensive weapons, spray cans, that sort of thing"

"Really? So, how come you didn't check my husband or my father-in-law?" "Because they don't have bags" "But, all these blokes go in with combat trousers with pockets, etc - don't you think they might have something in there?" "We check everyone" "errrm, you don't, because they don't have bags"

Honestly, do they think families coming through the turnstiles with their bags are going to have them crammed with "offensive weapons" or "spray cans" FFS.

I'll be interested to see how many offensive weapons and spray cans have been found over the years.

[Maquisard]

Yesterday, I forgot to remove one of those mini deodorant sprays from my bag when I left home. When the steward searched my bag at the gate, you'd have thought I was trying to smuggle a nuclear weapon in - she actually jumped back and said, in stunned disbelief, "Is that an aerosol???" I thought I was going to miss the whole game while she lectured me on the absolute criminality of trying to take a tiny aerosol into the ground (I'm clearly such a thug ).

But they do only check women's bags. So alcohol in a hip flask should be no problem at all. Especially if you have a tiny handbag to distract them with. Also, I've only ever been searched in the East stand and only at the gate for Y24-26 (which gate number is that?) - you could probably get whole crates of alcohol into West or North.

[No Fixed Abode]

Yesterday, I had my little tiny bag with me (just big enough to hold my iphone and a packet of fags + lighter) - I try and go through the turnstile and I'm stopped by a steward. "Excuse me I need to look in your bag" - so I open my bag - which reveals an iphone and a packe of fags, plus lighter. I ask "what is it, exactly, that you're looking for?" "I have to look in your bag" "Yes, but WHAT are you looking for? What do you think I might have in my bag?" "Offensive weapons, spray cans, that sort of thing"

"Really? So, how come you didn't check my husband or my father-in-law?" "Because they don't have bags" "But, all these blokes go in with combat trousers with pockets, etc - don't you think they might have something in there?" "We check everyone" "errrm, you don't, because they don't have bags"

Honestly, do they think families coming through the turnstiles with their bags are going to have them crammed with "offensive weapons" or "spray cans" FFS.

I'll be interested to see how many offensive weapons and spray cans have been found over the years.

You can be the decoy for the other people with you who actually have booze on them. Well you could have been until you just ruined it for everyone by all of the above.

[Royal Lady]

Yesterday, I forgot to remove one of those mini deodorant sprays from my bag when I left home. When the steward searched my bag at the gate, you'd have thought I was trying to smuggle a nuclear weapon in - she actually jumped back and said, in stunned disbelief, "Is that an aerosol???" I thought I was going to miss the whole game while she lectured me on the absolute criminality of trying to take a tiny aerosol into the ground (I'm clearly such a thug ).

But they do only check women's bags. So alcohol in a hip flask should be no problem at all. Especially if you have a tiny handbag to distract them with. Also, I've only ever been searched in the East stand and only at the gate for Y24-26 (which gate number is that?) - you could probably get whole crates of alcohol into West or North.

So YOU'RE the thug with the spray can.

Yeah I always go in Gate 8 I think it is for Y24-26. I wouldn't mind so much if they were seen to treat everyone the same, but considering a Cardiff fan (I think it was Cardiff last year) managed to bring in and then set off a flare, they're obviously not quite as hot on the away fans!!

[Harpers So Solid Crew]

Yesterday, I had my little tiny bag with me (just big enough to hold my iphone and a packet of fags + lighter) - I try and go through the turnstile and I'm stopped by a steward. "Excuse me I need to look in your bag" - so I open my bag - which reveals an iphone and a packe of fags, plus lighter. I ask "what is it, exactly, that you're looking for?" "I have to look in your bag" "Yes, but WHAT are you looking for? What do you think I might have in my bag?" "Offensive weapons, spray cans, that sort of thing"

"Really? So, how come you didn't check my husband or my father-in-law?" "Because they don't have bags" "But, all these blokes go in with combat trousers with pockets, etc - don't you think they might have something in there?" "We check everyone" "errrm, you don't, because they don't have bags"

Honestly, do they think families coming through the turnstiles with their bags are going to have them crammed with "offensive weapons" or "spray cans" FFS.

I'll be interested to see how many offensive weapons and spray cans have been found over the years.

Seriously have you brought this up with the club at all?

[East End Lady]

RL - my young niece had a spary sun lotion in her bag for the palace friendly. I did not realise that it was one otherwise I would not have let her bring it. However the officious steward would not even let us put it behind the bar area for safe keeping. Insisted it had to go in the bin. Apparently she might spray it in someone's eyes and then the club would be liable. I got very stroppy with the senior steward over this but did not do any good even when I asked what was going to happen when I sued the club if she got sunburnt because we could not take it in.
It was a bloody friendly match surely some commonsense could be applied.

[PieEater]

I find the best approach is to ignore them, don't get any eye contact and just plough on in. I do usually arrive when there is no queue however.

[Royal Lady]

RL - my young niece had a spary sun lotion in her bag for the palace friendly. I did not realise that it was one otherwise I would not have let her bring it. However the officious steward would not even let us put it behind the bar area for safe keeping. Insisted it had to go in the bin. Apparently she might spray it in someone's eyes and then the club would be liable. I got very stroppy with the senior steward over this but did not do any good even when I asked what was going to happen when I sued the club if she got sunburnt because we could not take it in.
It was a bloody friendly match surely some commonsense could be applied.

Commonsense is the word here isn't it!

They are effectively branding the likes of us as hooligans or whatever. Bloody cheek!