Help needed - Taking drinks in to Villa Park

[Ad@m]

I take a bottle of squash for my daughter every game in a back pack. Every game the bag is checked. Never have I been pulled up on it. You’ll be fine taking a drink.

Good man. That's the sort of quality advice I expect from the good folk of H&V.

I'll go with squash in the backpack. I bet a flask of coffee for me might be a stretch too far for security though...

[Ad@m]

They're using a new agency this year, and it's noticeably shit everywhere, even in the corporate areas.

It's an absolute shambles.

There are noticeably fewer staff behind the counter which I'd put down to covid but maybe not if the agency has changed.

What hasn't changed is the snail pace of the people that are there.

[cdbearsfan]

Take in cartons and you'll definitely be fine. If you want to take in bottles, carry them in and hide the lids in your pocket while you go through security checks.

[The Edge]

They're using a new agency this year, and it's noticeably shit everywhere, even in the corporate areas.

It's an absolute shambles.

There are noticeably fewer staff behind the counter which I'd put down to covid but maybe not if the agency has changed.

What hasn't changed is the snail pace of the people that are there.

That's so true. I was in the Holte for the Wolves game. They were selling beer in cans so they had to pour every one into a plastic glass. The girl doing the pouring seemed to take about 5 minutes for each one oblivious to the fact that there were huge queues of thirsty people who only have 15 minutes to get served and eat and drink. It's a pathetic system more in line with a non league club that gets few hundred people for a home game. I wonder if the club are aware of the state of the catering?

[Sister of Top Cat]

I take a bottle of squash for my daughter every game in a back pack. Every game the bag is checked. Never have I been pulled up on it. You’ll be fine taking a drink.

Good man. That's the sort of quality advice I expect from the good folk of H&V.

I'll go with squash in the backpack. I bet a flask of coffee for me might be a stretch too far for security though...

TC and I always take a flask.  Never had a problem

[Hookeysmith]

Capri sun or similar packaged drinks

Your own sports bottle with an attached cap

The reason for the lids removed is so a weighty full bottle cannot be thrown. It is assumed people would not tend to throw thier own receptacles.

Hope this helps

[cdbearsfan]

Ridiculous that supporters can't be trusted not to throw bottles. Club can spot a bottle lid from fifty paces but never spot 200 Man U fans invading the pitch.

[London Villan]

And a thermos flask is safer than an 8 year old with a bottle of pop.

[Lastfootstamper]

Surely the biggest deterrent to the lobbing of bottles these days is the paying of nine times RRP for one that you've had to stand in a queue for half an hour to get in the first place.

[Ad@m]

Ridiculous that supporters can't be trusted not to throw bottles. Club can spot a bottle lid from fifty paces but never spot 200 Man U fans invading the pitch.

It's the same mentality that stops "potentially controversial" replays being shown on the big screens. 42,000 people get treated like morons because one pissed up dickhead might act like one.

[edgysatsuma89]

Ridiculous that supporters can't be trusted not to throw bottles. Club can spot a bottle lid from fifty paces but never spot 200 Man U fans invading the pitch.

Isn't the bottle lid stuff at events more to do with a bottle on the floor with a lid on is much more of a safety hazard as it won't just crush under your foot like a bottle without a lid. That's what I've always thought was the issue rather than them being used as missiles. If you want a good missile then go with an amputee who has spares.

[Andy Poole]

They're using a new agency this year, and it's noticeably shit everywhere, even in the corporate areas.

Ah. The old put it out to tender and give it to the cheapest, option. They must be Tories.

[wince]

Ridiculous that supporters can't be trusted not to throw bottles. Club can spot a bottle lid from fifty paces but never spot 200 Man U fans invading the pitch.

Isn't the bottle lid stuff at events more to do with a bottle on the floor with a lid on is much more of a safety hazard as it won't just crush under your foot like a bottle without a lid. That's what I've always thought was the issue rather than them being used as missiles. If want a good missile then go with an amputee who has spares.

Yes as well as them being used as a cosh. When I was in arena security it was argued you could throw a bottle like a German ww2 grenade but not a plastic pint glass. Believe me you can throw a plastic glass a long way. Like the lidless bottles, said cups break underfoot meaning less hazard if they get dropped on the floor.

[Malandro]

They're using a new agency this year, and it's noticeably shit everywhere, even in the corporate areas.

Yeah but they've not had their best team available yet. They moved from 4 behind the bar to 3 to get more glass collectors in as that's all they had.

They need to work on the press.

[brontebilly]

Hope ye managed to get the drinks in