What I don’t get is that it ain’t that difficult to throw a bottle full of water with no cap on and hit someone as hard as if a cap was fitted. I was told some years ago that caps were only dangerous if loosely fitted to an empty plastic bottle and someone stamps on the bottle - it treats the...
Interestingly they are also doing lines in hip flasks, tankards and aluminium water bottles, none of which, I assume, would be allowed into the ground.
I was once told by a security quard at a concert that the lids could be used as weapons. If you empty the bottle, put the lid on loose and stamp on it, the lid flies off like an air pellet. Who knows - try doing that with a flask!
West stand wall. The stewards ignored it but some guy in a suit did pick up on it after an hour and told the guy to hide it (rather than confiscate the top).
Thought the pre match bidy search was more thorough than usual - ooooh errrr missus!
Latest news is that wallets will be checked to ensure that all supporters have at least £30 in cash and a credit/debit card. Failure will result in non admittance, confiscation of your season ticket and 12 points on your licence.
Rather than back down (and nobody thought he would anyway) he has come up with some absurd options of his own that will never work (bearing in mind the catering doesn’t work already).
He is trying, very trying.
Looking through the list there are hardly any of those items banned from the tube - smoking, weapons and maybe gas cannisters. Luckily Barber isn’t in charge of London Transport.
OK, so let’s ban boots, mobile phones (they can be thrown or used to trigger a bomb), sweets (they may be packed with gunpowder), children (they may have a bomb strapped to them) - yes, all as ridiculous as stopping a few elderly people having the convenience of using a thermos.