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Well I could do without multiple posts insisting its a move by the club to sell more tea, or even a over zealous crackdown on illicit smuggling of alcohol. Clearly nonsense .And there's been a lot of conflation with the rightful reminder to fans not to bring in or eat food/drink to lounges and...

Ha ! i've never thought about this and frankly don't intend to. So nope. I don't know.

Yes. It is but so what. They are lounges or pubs or restaurants. Since when could you start bringing in your own crisps to the pub etc. Nothing to do with flasks in rest of ground. Now If the club banned my Dad from taking in his sweets to the WSU then I’m with you but they’re not.

Yes for example Wimbledon, Old Trafford and Wembley all ban flasks for security reasons. But many clubs/stadia don't. Why ? I don't know. Do they have different risk assessments ? different profiles of attendees, more sophisticated security operations, different intelligence, less proactive...

All the either serious or jokey stuff about it being because PB wants to sell more Bovril which he says is nonsense and is clearly nonsense undermines an important debate worth having about actual risks, how policies are applied in similar stadiums and obviously how fans are treated.

Agreed . There’s a perfectly legitimate case to be made that the club are overstating the risk - and the policy is heavy handed even “ridiculous”. Although we are probably not aware of the intelligence that the police have used to presumably make this recommendation. Also although some clubs...

"a safety and security-related decision...in line with many other stadiums" were the reasons given in PB"s email.

I emailed Paul Barber this morning and he confirmed that flasks aren’t allowed from Fulham onwards. (I like bringing a flask of hot chocolate from time to time - well I’m getting on a bit. So was interested to know. Oh well)