There is that. I just think it's utterly shit that a club like ours which has had so much investment over the past 10 years is totally incapable of knocking out half-time pints at anything approaching close to an acceptable rate. Even at Burnley last week, despite the concourse being fucking hammered and it being difficult to navigate your way through the crowds, it was still possible to get served at half-time within 5 minutes of joining the queue.
On Saturday I went to the bar at half time , after queuing for 5 mins the conversation went like this:-
"two pints of Heineken"
Girl holds an empty pot under a couple of taps for a minute says nothing
I say everything ok?
" the barrel has gone she says and stares at me"
me " has the fosters one gone too"
Girl "no that's working "
me " right then could I have two pints of fosters then"
She looked at me as though I had solved the mystery of the universe.
Look I know some people don't like a half time pint but some do.
remember at maine road in the maine stand they had one of those machines that pulled 6 pints at once and they were constantly pulling them and the staff would hand over a pint and take the money.
This was donkeys years ago ??
They also had those vids a few years ago in the ground that filled the glasses up quickly from below - whatever happened to those?
It really isn't rocket science.