Help needed - Taking drinks in to Villa Park

[Sexual Ealing]

Hope ye managed to get the drinks in

He'll have fucking needed them.

[Ad@m]

Hope ye managed to get the drinks in

I did, which was about the only positive to take from this evening!

[Towser]

cant have a bottle with a lid on yet someone took in a whole cabbage once

[PaulTheVillan]

cant have a bottle with a lid on yet someone took in a whole cabbage once

LOL

[Des Little]

Mate who sits next to me had his bottle of fanta kicked over twice before kick off, he lost two thirds of it, which sploshed around my feet all game.  To add insult to his injury, the second spillage was caused by someone bringing their pint to their seat.  Happy days!

[algy]

Put it in a condom and swallow it.

My lad's only little but I'm not sure he'll fit in a condom.  Even one of mine...

Very good.

Oh, and I'd just take a rucksack with a kids drinking bottle in it, buried in the middle somewhere wrapped in a coat, you'll be fine.

Obviously I wouldn't dream of doing this ... but I've, erm, heard that when people go to cricket, an effective tactic is to shove a couple of 'decoy' tins in the top of the rucksack, then a coat or something underneath them, and then beneath that the actual stash of booze.  Decoys get confiscated, the rest's untouched.

Also, dunno if this is still possible but we used to take a flask of hot chocolate in to the ground - they were fine with that.

[Flin5tone]

The catering this season is an absolute disgrace. One thing that used to cheer me up when we were as bad as now was a decent pie,chips and curry sauce. You need to leave your seat on 25 mins to secure a substandard portion now.

A lot of fans were getting irate yesterday and walking away. Must be losing thousands each game

[Des Little]

They'll never get this catering malarkey sorted at VP.  Every single time you try and get stuff, it seems as if the person serving you (if you are lucky) is doing their first ever shift, which is probably true.  I've given up buying stuff in the ground, waste of time and money.

[chrisw1]

I spoke to a steward recently.  A flask is fine, so it a sports bottle.  Even a lucozade (or similar) bottle with a 'sports bottle' type top is absolutely fine.

If you want a normal soft drink bottle just take a spare cap in your pocket.

I suspect the treading on them thing is probably the reason.

[Des Little]

Hip flask is the way forward, and the way we are playing, it's essential.

[FrankyH]

Hip flask is the way forward, and the way we are playing, it's essential.

Few years ago around Christmas I had a Hip Flask taken off me by a head Steward in the lower Witton lane. He told me I could have it back at the end of the game , which he did , minus the single malt that was in it ! I'm convinced he had it in his coffee . I can't complain as I knew it contraband.

[Ad@m]

Put it in a condom and swallow it.

My lad's only little but I'm not sure he'll fit in a condom.  Even one of mine...

Very good.

Oh, and I'd just take a rucksack with a kids drinking bottle in it, buried in the middle somewhere wrapped in a coat, you'll be fine.

Obviously I wouldn't dream of doing this ... but I've, erm, heard that when people go to cricket, an effective tactic is to shove a couple of 'decoy' tins in the top of the rucksack, then a coat or something underneath them, and then beneath that the actual stash of booze.  Decoys get confiscated, the rest's untouched.

Also, dunno if this is still possible but we used to take a flask of hot chocolate in to the ground - they were fine with that.

At the turnstile a steward asked to "look in my bag", which he did, literally.  I could've had absolutely anything in there as long as it wasn't on show!!!

[AlexAlexCropley]

I spoke to a steward recently.  A flask is fine, so it a sports bottle.  Even a lucozade (or similar) bottle with a 'sports bottle' type top is absolutely fine.

If you want a normal soft drink bottle just take a spare cap in your pocket.

I suspect the treading on them thing is probably the reason.

Would this include the metal kind of flask?

[chrisw1]

I spoke to a steward recently.  A flask is fine, so it a sports bottle.  Even a lucozade (or similar) bottle with a 'sports bottle' type top is absolutely fine.

If you want a normal soft drink bottle just take a spare cap in your pocket.

I suspect the treading on them thing is probably the reason.

Would this include the metal kind of flask?

Pretty sure that would be fine.

[stubbsyandy]

Put it in a condom and swallow it.

My lad's only little but I'm not sure he'll fit in a condom.  Even one of mine...

Very good.

Oh, and I'd just take a rucksack with a kids drinking bottle in it, buried in the middle somewhere wrapped in a coat, you'll be fine.

Obviously I wouldn't dream of doing this ... but I've, erm, heard that when people go to cricket, an effective tactic is to shove a couple of 'decoy' tins in the top of the rucksack, then a coat or something underneath them, and then beneath that the actual stash of booze.  Decoys get confiscated, the rest's untouched.

Also, dunno if this is still possible but we used to take a flask of hot chocolate in to the ground - they were fine with that.

Best I saw was at Edgbaston for a one day international, chap in front went through with a tube of Pringles open with Pringles available to eat, the seal was open. Sat next to me and produced bottle of vodka from under the only three Pringles in the tube!