Having a beer at the football

That will be the Ricoh Arena at Coventry.

My eyes are getting really bad,

I thought the thread said having a bear at the football.

Quoted from pen penfras

No, but I did accidentally throw a pint all over somebody at a MLS game I saw when in America. I wasn't even celebrating, just drunk.

Did well to get drunk on American beer. Went to the Metlife to see an American football game, it was eleven dollars a pint (short of a pint as well at 500ml). I had to complete a form at the bar to get a beer as I was 40 and they thought I may have been under 25. Then again, American's are morons.

Quoted from fishboyUTM

Did well to get drunk on American beer. Went to the Metlife to see an American football game, it was eleven dollars a pint (short of a pint as well at 500ml). I had to complete a form at the bar to get a beer as I was 40 and they thought I may have been under 25. Then again, American's are morons.

A bloke I know, in his sixties, was in his hotel bar and asked for a pint. He had to get his passport and show it to prove he was old enough before he was served. This is the same country where anyone over 16 can legally buy a gun with no questions asked!

Quoted from mimma

A bloke I know, in his sixties, was in his hotel bar and asked for a pint. He had to get his passport and show it to prove he was old enough before he was served. This is the same country where anyone over 16 can legally buy a gun with no questions asked!

Alcohol can be dangerous. Gotta git your priorities right boy!

Quoted from mimma

A bloke I know, in his sixties, was in his hotel bar and asked for a pint. He had to get his passport and show it to prove he was old enough before he was served. This is the same country where anyone over 16 can legally buy a gun with no questions asked!

My mate who was with me was laughing until he had to show ID to get his round in. He's 38! Lunacy.

Re drinking at football, I've been listening on Talksport over the last few days as they've been debating it. A lot of people objected as they felt people would be up and down all game long. Some had concerns people would throw their beer in the air when goals were scored similar to buffoons in the pub during the World Cup.

Personally, I can see both arguments. Football is tribal, it is different to rugby and cricket etc. Anyone who goes, knows. Especially since John Fenty's involvement at the club, drinking several pints before the game has been essential, I often have a pint at half time and a few up Megs afterwards. I'm not convinced I need any more during the 90 minutes. Give it a trial, I don't think you'll see people throwing beer around, why would you throw you're best part of £4 pint all over, annoy the people next to you and then spend 10 minutes queuing up for another one? The rules need relaxing certainly, for example when in Mcmenemy's the curtains to the pitch have to be drawn. That's draconian.

Quoted from mimma

A bloke I know, in his sixties, was in his hotel bar and asked for a pint. He had to get his passport and show it to prove he was old enough before he was served. This is the same country where anyone over 16 can legally buy a gun with no questions asked!

Very good.  
They possibly thought he was an overage drinker.
In my 30s I was waiting in a queue at an ice cream van and a little girl said to me, " You're too old to buy ice creams mister. "  

In reply to golfer my Dad who worked at Hewitts was Ron Perkins.

My recollection of Hewitt's beer was that it was quite thin and watery, a bit like Young's Ordinary bitter was in London. But can anyone else remember what it was like?

Quoted from jock dock tower

Talking of which.....Does any of the (much) older fraternity on here remember back in the 1960s, whenever Hewitt's put their prices up there was inevitably a window put in on their premises by a bloke on a bike? As far as I can remember the culprit was never cuiaght, which begs the question of the Gy police at the time not being the brightest bunch, as it ALWAYS happened. All they had to do was have someone in the vicinity of the brewery and wait. Those were the days!

Rumour has it that the police did get wind of who it was. But before they could nick him he scarpered north of the border !!