I know bottles with caps are not allowed but I often see people drinking tea from thermos flasks?
What about food? Are tupperware boxes full of sandwiches a dangerous missile, or are they permitted?
Hammersmith End after Wisla looked like some people had been having picnics.
I do not blame people for wanting their own food and drink, considering the overpriced rubbish the club has on offer.
I find that if you avoid eye contact you almost never get stopped.
On the rare occasion that doesn't work I hand over my bottle top, compliment the steward on his sterling work, confirm that I know he doesn't make the rules but that I would have to have gone a week without water before I'd buy a drink inside the ground.
I then surreptitiously make use of my spare bottle top.
Yeah what has happened to the Hammersmith End?
You are knee deep in crepes, prawn sandwiches and vol au vents these days. As well as taking the tops of water bottles when will we see them offering to uncork your claret for you?
I walk into the ground and my bottle top is always taken. However, Airfix somehow always manages to get a knife and fork into the ground for his packed lunch!
And those hardboiled eggs he smuggles in are potentially lethal.
Quote from: TonyGilroy on November 07, 2011, 10:03:02 AM
I then surreptitiously make use of my spare bottle top.
always carry a spare in my pocket.
I also find if you walk through the turnstiles and start walking and putting your ST in your wallet while not looking at the stewards they do not stop you. Look busy is my advice.
If you are Spurs then you can bring your OWN REFEREE
Quote from: JBH on November 07, 2011, 11:31:10 AM
If you are Spurs then you can bring your OWN REFEREE
Until the not a penalty I thought Walton had a really good game.
Quote from: TonyGilroy on November 07, 2011, 11:36:32 AM
Quote from: JBH on November 07, 2011, 11:31:10 AM
If you are Spurs then you can bring your OWN REFEREE
Until the not a penalty I thought Walton had a really good game.
Yes grudgingly have to agree. Let's face it, Friedel had an absolute 'worldy' and if there was one guy on the pitch that deserved to be on the winning side it was him.
Quote from: MJG on November 07, 2011, 11:14:58 AM
Quote from: TonyGilroy on November 07, 2011, 10:03:02 AM
I then surreptitiously make use of my spare bottle top.
always carry a spare in my pocket.
I also find if you walk through the turnstiles and start walking and putting your ST in your wallet while not looking at the stewards they do not stop you. Look busy is my advice.
Yep really very easy to not be searched, walking quickly (generally to the gents) does the job.
I took the Mrs once but I shan't again..
Quote from: TonyGilroy on November 07, 2011, 11:36:32 AM
Quote from: JBH on November 07, 2011, 11:31:10 AM
If you are Spurs then you can bring your OWN REFEREE
Until the not a penalty I thought Walton had a really good game.
Agree but that doesn't hide the fact that he botled it by not awarding the clear penalty.
Quote from: White Noise on November 07, 2011, 10:20:49 AM
Yeah what has happened to the Hammersmith End?
You are knee deep in crepes, prawn sandwiches and vol au vents these days...
I guess David Stockdale's relatives must still have season tickets... :dft012:
You can officially take in high expectations, but usually leave with them in tatters. 090.gif
If you buy an overpriced FFC water bottle you can take that in with the lid firmly on, you can buy FFC golf balls in the shop and take them in, missile anybody?
I've never been stopped unles I've got a bag. Even then a stinking gym kit in the top of your bag will give you a quicker search
Quote from: White Noise on November 07, 2011, 10:20:49 AM
Yeah what has happened to the Hammersmith End?
You are knee deep in crepes, prawn sandwiches and vol au vents these days. As well as taking the tops of water bottles when will we see them offering to uncork your claret for you?
There used to be a posh couple in front of us - Barbour jackets and opera glasses. They only turned up for the big 4 and a few other matches -left early.
I am sure they would have had a nice Harrods picnic hamper with a gingham table cloth if they knew what they could bring in. It would be just like Glyndebourne.
Always take the bottle-top off before entering, and it re-emerges after I take my seat.
I am sure most people do this, so not sure why the stewards bother.
With the winter months drawing in I shall once again be taking my hip-flask to games at the Cottage. Filled with 7 Star Metaxa...
As part of my lads weekend away we took in Harrogate Town v. Nuneaton, and it was frikkin freezing. I had hot Bovril for the first time, and became an instant fan. It was also good to start diluting the alocohol that had up to then been the only fluids I had been taking on board in the prior 24 hours...!!
Crutches
We are the whites
Despair. Broken dreams. A lifetime of waiting.
(Plus entirely unjustified pessimism and ingratitude)
Quote from: Dan in Notts on November 07, 2011, 09:25:32 PM
Despair. Broken dreams. A lifetime of waiting.
(Plus entirely unjustified pessimism and ingratitude)
:011: :Haynes The Maestro:
It's perfectly fine to take in friends and family wearing ManUre, Liverpool, Chelsea shirts when we play said teams. Stewards are more than happy to allow them to stroll around provided they buy an unlidded beverage
Once that we had a flight just after the game courtesy of a very helpful streward we have been allowed to bring in the stadium our luggages. Things that only at fulham may happen, I imagine. . .
Bump to this very old thread (with some funny pessimism considering we were faring relatively well then) . What are the rules these days?
If I ever get stopped carrying in my bag (perhaps 50% of the time) with a bottle of water in the bag, I always say that I need the water with the cap on to take my regular medication during the game. Works every time. Having said that, in all the years I've been coming to Fulham I can't recall anyone in the Hammersmith End throwing a full bottle in the general direction of the pitch.
On a more serious note, I wonder whether there is a more scrupulous search of bags and bodies in the Putney End, especially when Liverpool "we strictly adhere to Health and Safety but we love pyrotechnics" fans are in town.
With all of these unsocial start times to matches I often take a sandwich to compensate for a missed meal, was not aware of any eating restrictions at the Cottage.