Vegas And The Round Up: Success or Not?

[Cumbrian Fanatic]

13 hours ago, gingerjon said:

Ah, okay. There’s differences at Wembley between RL and football matches.

There was at Tottenham for the challenge cup final too, and there is at Old Trafford for the Grand Final. I was at Anfield, but can't remember what the rules were, I just remember going to the bar, seeing the queue and not bothering 

[Dave T]

13 minutes ago, Cumbrian Fanatic said:

There was at Tottenham for the challenge cup final too, and there is at Old Trafford for the Grand Final. I was at Anfield, but can't remember what the rules were, I just remember going to the bar, seeing the queue and not bothering 

Yep. Same at Magic when played at football grounds. 

The restrictions are generally football restrictions, although Old Trafford have started to ban drinks at seats during GF due to trouble over a sustained period.

[Tommygilf]

23 hours ago, Just Browny said:

Given all of the above, how is it that our beer and wine sponsorships are both with companies which - with the greatest of respect- nobody has heard of?

Annoying isn't it, especially when at the peak of booze sponsorship we had relatively big names on board.

I'm also surprised more of the 0% marketing hasn't found its way back yet either. That said, Sports sponsorships are all over the place in the past decade and Covid accelerated that.

[Tommygilf]

7 minutes ago, Dave T said:

Yep. Same at Magic when played at football grounds. 

The restrictions are generally football restrictions, although Old Trafford have started to ban drinks at seats during GF due to trouble over a sustained period.

The restrictions are almost entirely football ones.

Legally you can't drink alcohol in sight of the pitch of a designated event - in practice this is all International, PL and EFL matches. That's why they have shutters/blinds come down during play in the corporate bar areas so the pitch can't be viewed from them. 1985 Sporting Events (Control of Alcohol) Act.

Sometimes I just think the stewards don't know the difference, and in part it makes their job easier.

[burnleywelsh]

14 hours ago, dkw said:

They had the same restrictions during game time I seem to remember, you couldn't take drink to your seat.

A Steward tried this on with me, saying we couldn’t take alcohol to our seats. Pointed out that The Sporting Events (control of alcohol Act) only applied to football matches……”OK, fair enough on you go” was the reply.

The Act applies to the following sporting events:

• Association football matches in which one or both of the participating teams represents a club which is for the time being a member (whether a full or associate member) of the Football League, the Football Association Premier League, the Football Conference National Division, the Scottish Football League or Welsh Premier League, or represents a country or territory.
• Association football matches in competition the Football association Cup (other than in the preliminary or qualifying round).

The Act only applies in England and Wales.

[Hanover XIII]

2 hours ago, Tommygilf said:

The restrictions are almost entirely football ones.

Legally you can't drink alcohol in sight of the pitch of a designated event - in practice this is all International, PL and EFL matches. That's why they have shutters/blinds come down during play in the corporate bar areas so the pitch can't be viewed from them. 1985 Sporting Events (Control of Alcohol) Act.

Sometimes I just think the stewards don't know the difference, and in part it makes their job easier.

At Hull we were told to draw the blinds as we had pints in a box. I asked the steward if we could have them half open as I only had a shandy. 

[Cumbrian Fanatic]

I liked the 'No Alcohol Beyond This Point' signs at the Millennium Stadium that had been turned around for the Challenge Cup Final ( and presumably the Welsh RU internationals)