What are you officially allowed to take into Craven Cottage?

[Alternative]

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.

[TonyGilroy]

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.

[White Noise]

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?

[The Equalizer]

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.

[MJG]

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.

[JBH]

If you are Spurs then you can bring your OWN REFEREE

[TonyGilroy]

If you are Spurs then you can bring your OWN REFEREE

Until the not a penalty I thought Walton had a really good game.

[BalDrick]

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.

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.

[Edwatch_Winston_Malone]

I took the Mrs once but I shan't again..

[JBH]

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.

[finnster01]

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:

[MJG]

You can officially take in high expectations, but usually leave with them in tatters. 090.gif

[epsomraver]

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?

[King_Crud]

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

[Alternative]

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.

[Burt]

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.

[MOR :]

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...

[Burt]

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...!!

[Travers Barney]

Crutches

We are the whites

[Dan in Notts]

Despair. Broken dreams. A lifetime of waiting.

(Plus entirely unjustified pessimism and ingratitude)