Alcohol ban for CL and UEFA Cup games

therecklessone

Can't get a beer at CL or UC games because of UEFA regulations...I'm told Rangers can't have their Carling sponsors name on their shirts tonight either (blacked out on the shirts)

Nice to see UEFA's principled stand on alcohol extends to their choice of Heineken as an official sponsor for the CL, isn't it? Think I'll ask for a pint of hypocrisy at my next Wafer game...

JeanClaude

Rangers can't have Carling on their jerseys because alcohol sponsorship is banned in France, nothing to do with UEFA.Same happened liverpool v Toulose.

KdjaCL

JeanClaude wrote:

Rangers can't have Carling on their jerseys because alcohol sponsorship is banned in France, nothing to do with UEFA.Same happened liverpool v Toulose.

Correct.

betting companies next, i loved how kanoute wouldnt have it on his jersey then 888 gave him 300k, guess religion is as strong as ever.

kdjac

A Dub in Glasgo

The Rangers thing is a French government ban on the advertisement of alcohol on TV

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loi_Evin

Third_Echelon

JeanClaude wrote:

Rangers can't have Carling on their jerseys because alcohol sponsorship is banned in France, nothing to do with UEFA.Same happened liverpool v Toulose.

yeah thats the case alright... even the rugby european cup, the heineken cup, is called the 'H' Cup in France on all the official advertising hoardings etc... Same for Formula 1 etc..

eirebhoy

therecklessone wrote:

Can't get a beer at CL or UC games because of UEFA regulations...

Probably won't make much difference. Very few people drink at games when it's available.

A Dub in Glasgo

Alcohol is never available to us plebs at Celtic. It is served to the 'invester' seats although you cannot bring it out to your seat unlike when I was at the Nou Camp

KdjaCL

eirebhoy wrote:

Probably won't make much difference. Very few people drink at games when it's available.

400 pats fans took about 23 seconds to figure out that Carlsberg lights i non alchol in Odense


kdjac

lynchie

A Dub in Glasgo wrote:

Alcohol is never available to us plebs at Celtic. It is served to the 'invester' seats although you cannot bring it out to your seat unlike when I was at the Nou Camp

And the Club 67 bar too.. And both will be selling beer as normal tomorrow from 5pm onwards

therecklessone

eirebhoy wrote:

Probably won't make much difference. Very few people drink at games when it's available.

Never been in White Hart Lane then, I think our halftime round last night was 36 beers...:D

Didn't know about the French ban, the point re. UEFA and sponsorship still stands though.

Eirebear

Who needs beer with a result like that!?

I'm sure the gers fans are making up for it right about now!!!

maxi-twist

JeanClaude wrote:

because alcohol sponsorship is banned in France

The HEINEKEN rugby world cup. There were heineken barriers up all around the pitch. How did that work?

Third_Echelon

maxi-twist wrote:

The HEINEKEN rugby world cup. There were heineken barriers up all around the pitch. How did that work?

Did the signs actually say 'Heineken' or was it just the logo for example?

I can't remember noticing billboards etc. Too busy getting frustrated with Ireland's performances

leeroybrown

maxi-twist wrote:

The HEINEKEN rugby world cup. There were heineken barriers up all around the pitch. How did that work?

There would have been at the games staged in Cardiff and Edinburgh but at the games on French soil?

Guy:Incognito

The boards have the logo afaik and it says something different but in the heineken font. There waas one behind the goal at the Rangers game. Think it said "champions planet" or somesuch.

ziggy

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maxi-twist

Third_Echelon wrote:

Did the signs actually say 'Heineken' or was it just the logo for example?

I can't remember noticing billboards etc. Too busy getting frustrated with Ireland's performances

No i was at 2 of the matches and it definately said heineken. They also sold amstel (pretty sure it was non alcoholic). This debate popped up and no one had an answer to it.

Mr Alan

ziggy67 wrote:

Thats why inside pockets and half-bottles of Buckfast were invented!

amen to that