If you change your stance, you can always store your bike at my apartment in town, this season will be to good to miss... call it a pint a game (:
I guess only if you are using the facilities there.That's a great point & where there's bikes there are lockers.
I don't see why the club don't have vending machines for healthy soft drinks and snacks dotted around the stadium. Bit ridiculous really as it could ease the pressures on the queues.Try not to judge others by your own standards.
I'll elaborate for you so that you can maybe better appreciate my situation before you try to stick your label on me.
I have a medical condition that lots of blokes get in their 50's. It's a prostate issue that causes you to need a piss as regular as clockwork - it also makes you piss slowly (you should read up on this stuff because it'll happen to you or to friends of yours soon enough). If I drank a gallon before going in the ground then I'd spend the first half stood at a urinal and not see the game.
As it is I was always desperate for a piss by halftime but also thirsty because, with this condition, you need to keep your fluids in check so that you can last until halftime.
In the halftime interval you only have time to have a piss (especially at the speed I do it), or queue to buy a drink, before the second half kicks off and there's no way that I'd attend a game and not watch it in it's entirety.
I used to go take a leak at halftime then, when the second half had started and the straglers had returned to their seats, I'd pour myself a coffee and get my fluids back up. It seemed perfectly reasonable to me. I did it because of medical need.
I've only been straight in what I've written and I can't quite understand why you feel fit to poke fun. I hope you'll maybe reconsider on reflection.
Whats a 'true' fan can you only be one if you don't have much money. I was priced out due to my own personal circumstances in the 90s. Now I'm doing OK and have come back. I didn't expect the club to help me in the 90s, was I a true fan then when I couldn't afford it, now I can again I'm not ?
I don't see why the club don't have vending machines for healthy soft drinks and snacks dotted around the stadium. Bit ridiculous really as it could ease the pressures on the queues.
To be fair mate, I always thought the same about people wanting a pint & a pie. Why not have a drink & something to eat before the match, & then wait til you get home to eat & drink again? Works for me & saves a packet too.
I have two on the waiting list and haven’t heard anything from the club
I saw someone turned away because the had two packets of crisps!!! FFSIf not being a happy clapper is being bitter then sign me up. But too many people with your mentality attend games and are quite happy to get bent over and do whatever they're told even if it means being treated like a piece of shit. Effectively barring someone from entry because he's got food is just the latest example of it. Things are going amazing on the pitch but the match day experience, independent of how the team play, has got worse/completely removed for a lot of fans and I'm glad not all of our fans want to be treated like cattle.
I too (occasionally) cycle to the game. The club should provide a safe storage facility for bags exceeding the size threshold. These can then be retrieved after the match. I too was told my pannier was too big (no flask or butties in it either!) but it does have spare inner tube, pump, tyre levers, keys, overshoes, waterproof trousers, front and rear lights and helmet and gloves in there when going through the turnstyles. To try and fit all of this stuff into an A4 bag is tough. It's quite hard to find any bike panniers which are less than A4 in size as their smallness would render them useless tbh.