Each to their own, but for me each half goes in the blink of an eye anyway, so I personally wouldn't want to cut that down even further by going for beer/food before the half time whistle and possibly also get back late for the start of the second half as well, doubly so when it's Palace and...
From where we were in the North East corner it looked as though there were loads of empty seats in the North when the players came over to applaud just after the whistle.
Utterly absurd Goldstone! It's football so you must have a pie and a pint. Same with the theatre - you must have an little tub of ice cream in the interval, or a box of popcorn when in the cinema. Society would unravel from its very core if we mess with these time eternal traditions. What...