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No flags allowed for Aberdeen away
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 9:54 am
by Lancasterclaret
There you go
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Re: No flags allowed for Aberdeen away
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 9:59 am
by thatdberight
Good. That's the under cover / not under cover refreshments debate sorted out. Now there's only trivial stuff like, "Where do we pick up our tickets?" left to sort out.
Re: No flags allowed for Aberdeen away
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 10:00 am
by TheFamilyCat
Unbelievable. I was looking forward to seeing your Burnley FC EU flag as well.
Re: No flags allowed for Aberdeen away
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 10:02 am
by LawsCanalJump
No alcohol .. what has this world come to
Re: No flags allowed for Aberdeen away
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 10:03 am
by ClaretJimmy
Why wouldn't you be allowed a flag?
Re: No flags allowed for Aberdeen away
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 10:04 am
by tim_noone
I wonder why Liverpool and their lot are permitted to display their flags at Arfield?
Re: No flags allowed for Aberdeen away
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 10:04 am
by Lancasterclaret
I actually got to the design stage of it and then thought "don't really want to be political at a football match"!
Re: No flags allowed for Aberdeen away
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 10:07 am
by Burnleyliam
No flags allowed, no alcohol, must have photo ID or will be refused entry. Are we playing in Scotland or Nazi Germany??
Re: No flags allowed for Aberdeen away
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 10:13 am
by wilks_bfc
Is the “no-alcohol” to do with sponsorship?
When I took the kids team to Etihad to see City v Basel I’m sure I heard somebody say that because the Champions League is “sponsored” by Heineken and they use something else that they couldn’t serve any at all
Re: No flags allowed for Aberdeen away
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 10:13 am
by Tuddybfc
I imagine it is referring more to flags on poles for safety reasons
Re: No flags allowed for Aberdeen away
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 10:14 am
by woody
All football matches in Scotland are no alcohol.
Re: No flags allowed for Aberdeen away
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 10:17 am
by Spijed
Scotland has some fairly strict and draconian laws regarding alcohol.
I remember at the Commonwealth games in Glasgow that if you tried to buy any booze after 10 pm you couldn't, even from an off licence/newsagents etc.
In Glasgow at least, it's an offence to be seen drinking in public - outside the confines of a pub or restaurant. It might be the same in Aberdeen.
Re: No flags allowed for Aberdeen away
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 10:20 am
by Long Time Lurker
We are playing in the Europa now. Foreign countries have different cultures, different laws and a different way of doing things than we do. We can't expect everything to be the same when we are playing abroad.
I've heard they cover their Twix in batter and deep fry them.
Re: No flags allowed for Aberdeen away
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 10:24 am
by Spijed
wilks_bfc wrote:Is the “no-alcohol” to do with sponsorship?
When I took the kids team to Etihad to see City v Basel I’m sure I heard somebody say that because the Champions League is “sponsored” by Heineken and they use something else that they couldn’t serve any at all
I think it's because Scotland has had such a big problem with alcohol, both at football matches and in other areas that it's seen as the sensible thing to do by banning booze.
Re: No flags allowed for Aberdeen away
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 11:05 am
by Foulthrow
What about Japanese ones?
Re: No flags allowed for Aberdeen away
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 11:07 am
by Chobulous
Foulthrow wrote:What about Japanese ones?
Just keep off the curry for a couple of days before
Re: No flags allowed for Aberdeen away
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 11:24 am
by Steve1956
No flags..no alcohol...tinpot.
Re: No flags allowed for Aberdeen away
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 11:26 am
by claretonthecoast1882
It is a standard guideline set out bu UEFA in their competitions.
Copenhagen will have been told exactly the same on their trip to Leicester
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Re: No flags allowed for Aberdeen away
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 11:29 am
by Lancasterclaret
Who would have guessed that people on this board would have no idea about a European institutions rules............
Re: No flags allowed for Aberdeen away
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 11:31 am
by NottsClaret
Rules are for fools.
Re: No flags allowed for Aberdeen away
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 11:32 am
by Chobulous
Lancasterclaret wrote:Who would have guessed that people on this board would have no idea about a European institutions rules............
Got to wedge Brexit in there somehow.
Re: No flags allowed for Aberdeen away
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 11:34 am
by Lancasterclaret
I know!
I apologise but couldn't resist it!
Sorry
Re: No flags allowed for Aberdeen away
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 12:11 pm
by Rileybobs
I’m not having some big wig in Brussels dictate whether or not I can take a flag into the ground.
Re: No flags allowed for Aberdeen away
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 12:17 pm
by durhamclaret
Away fans without tickets advised not to travel!
They cannot legally enforce this
See you all in Aberdeen UTC
Re: No flags allowed for Aberdeen away
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 12:18 pm
by Quickenthetempo
FC Shkupi v Rangers seen plenty of flags from the away club.
Re: No flags allowed for Aberdeen away
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 12:21 pm
by thatdberight
durhamclaret wrote:Away fans without tickets advised not to travel!
They cannot legally enforce this
See you all in Aberdeen UTC
Nobody said they could, wished to or would try to 'enforce' it....
Re: No flags allowed for Aberdeen away
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 12:22 pm
by Rileybobs
durhamclaret wrote:Away fans without tickets advised not to travel!
They cannot legally enforce this
See you all in Aberdeen UTC
Maverick.
Re: No flags allowed for Aberdeen away
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 12:35 pm
by durhamclaret
Rileybobs wrote:Maverick.
Re: No flags allowed for Aberdeen away
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 1:35 pm
by Lancasterclaret
Update from an Aberdeen supporting school friend
"Usually not an issue, as long as it doesn't have a pole"
Re: No flags allowed for Aberdeen away
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 1:37 pm
by claretonthecoast1882
Lancasterclaret wrote:Update from an Aberdeen supporting school friend
"Usually not an issue, as long as it doesn't have a pole"
No Poles allowed ? That be that brexit again
Re: No flags allowed for Aberdeen away
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 1:43 pm
by Rowls
Lancasterclaret wrote:I actually got to the design stage of it and then thought "don't really want to be political at a football match"!
A good decision on many levels.
Not least because Burnley have qualified for European football - not "EU football".
Want to share your design?
Re: No flags allowed for Aberdeen away
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 1:47 pm
by Lancasterclaret
Not really but it was a simple Euro flag with Burnley FC in the middle.
would have been to celebrate us getting into Europe for the first time in my lifetime, but I'd be lying if I didn't think of my political views as well.
Re: No flags allowed for Aberdeen away
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 1:52 pm
by Quickenthetempo
Lancasterclaret wrote:Not really but it was a simple Euro flag with Burnley FC in the middle.
would have been to celebrate us getting into Europe for the first time in my lifetime, but I'd be lying if I didn't think of my political views as well.
If I was any good on photo shop you would appear in a Russian style photo of you and your flag turned upside down, with Ringo holding you.
But I'm not.
Re: No flags allowed for Aberdeen away
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 1:56 pm
by Lancasterclaret
Good image though!
Re: No flags allowed for Aberdeen away
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 5:27 pm
by ecc
I noticed the ban on flags. Bloody pathetic. I'm all for flags with "dodgy" wording and insignia being banned but otherwise it's plain wrong.
Re: No flags allowed for Aberdeen away
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 7:50 pm
by rufus lumley
They will be removing the Haslingden flags from Trafalgar square next.
Re: No flags allowed for Aberdeen away
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2018 8:02 pm
by starting_11
It'll be because the sight of St Georges and/or Union flags send jocks into a wild, un(ir?)recoverable rage not seen since William Wallace was aboot.