Bottle tops

[Gordons Cumming]

How long has it been against the rules to take plastic bottle tops into the arena? I've seen no signs.
Stewards are instructed to confiscate them. Can you get them back after the match if you've still got a half empty bottle?

Are they afraid they will be used as missiles?

I don't get it.

[T.R.O.L.I.]

How long has it been against the rules to take plastic bottle tops into the arena?

For as long as I can remember.

Stewards are instructed to confiscate them. Can you get them back after the match if you've still got a half empty bottle?

I would imagine so - ask a steward next time

Are they afraid they will be used as missiles?

I don't get it.

Both as a missile (if refilled with water from the taps in the toilets) and also a health and safety hazard during an evacuation - if you stand on a bottle without a top on it you will crush it. If you stand on a bottle with a top on it you will more than likely fall over.

However, I have seen people walk through the turnstiles with bottles without tops on and then retrieve the top from their pocket once safely inside the stadium. Not that I would condone such actions...

[Sarah Star]

I was having my bottle tops taken away last season and couldn't understand it either.

Yesterday, I heard someone else complaining to a steward about it and the reply was that with the top on, the bottle was more likely to hurt someone than if the top was off...presumably if it was full as well.

[Gordons Cumming]

Thanks T.R.O.L.I.

It is all very clear to me now.

Make sense.

The club could communicate it better though with clear signage.

[The 17 Bus]

Bloddy hell GC this has been debated on here loads of times, are you losing your memory??

[ShrewsandRoyals]

I've always got a spare in my purse. Just put it on when I get to the seat so the kids can have a drink when they want and I don't have to hold it all flippin' game.

[fridays child]

At QPR a few years ago had the top taken away.

Went to the refreshment kiosk where she sold me a bottle of pop, with the top on!!

Been taking spare tops into Mad Stad etc ever since.

[tee peg]

what a dangerous world we live in.

[Stranded]

They used to take bottle tops off you back at Elm Park so hardly a new thing.

[Winchester Royal]

They took them off at Dagenham, and then moved the tub when they saw me dipping my fingers into it to retrieve the cap...

[URZZZZZZZZ]

My mate who's a STH at Villa told me that he takes a spare bottle top just in case they confiscate the the first one!

[Deathy]

Bloddy hell GC this has been debated on here loads of times, are you losing your memory??

No, his bottle.

[Maguire]

My mate who's a STH at Villa told me that he takes a spare bottle top just in case they confiscate the the first one!

Like about 600 people on this thread have already said they do :-S

Mankind has endured for thousand of years, people have lived without healthcare, through war, disease, and famine. Yet now we might get offed by a bottle top.

lol@modern society. Is there someone somewhere who invents thigns to worry about?

[papereyes]

How long has it been against the rules to take plastic bottle tops into the arena?

For as long as I can remember.

It was the case when I used to sit in the family corner of Elm Park ...

[sam1]

They've been doing it for a fair while now. I just put the bottle top in my pocket. Or my bottle in my jeans waistband covered by a loose top.

[North Somerset Royal]

They've been doing it for a fair while now. I just put the bottle top in my pocket. Or my bottle in my jeans waistband covered by a loose top.

Didnt the loose top leak?

[gh7901]

I dont understand how someone could get caught out more than once by it anyway. Happened to me once, from then on just stuck the top in my pocket, never had a problem since.
So its really not a big deal

[kwik-silva]

I dont understand how someone could get caught out more than once by it anyway. Happened to me once, from then on just stuck the top in my pocket, never had a problem since.
So its really not a big deal

unless they start making you put it into a plastic cup I don't see the problem anyway, just drink it

[fridays child]

It's got to last until at least 75 mins into the game.

No way are we going to pay the prices at the kiosks.

[Royal Lady]

No such problems at Watford, I noted today. Nor do they have a safety gate to separate the away fans from the home fans. Nor do most places I've been to, to be fair.