The beer snake might be banned at Headingley but that sort of censure will not be tolerated in the West Midlands any more than someone ordering a curry which isn’t a balti.Īustralia tends to unlock a particularly aggressive part of the usually moderate English cricket fan, the self-identified ‘barmy’ types who consider emptying the bins in pyjamas pretty wild behaviour. It is the lairiest of the regular Test grounds and hosts the first post-pandemic UK Ashes Test.
We are about to enter a series of test cases for fan behaviour, will the genteel sounds of our sporting summer be disturbed by a feral rabble?Įdgbaston next week should be instructional. Ours is a nation with a less sober relationship with alcohol and if France is misbehaving you had better downgrade your expectations for England. Give football fans a glimpse of alcohol inside a stadium and you are just counting down the minutes until someone yeets a cup and wounds the Fiorentina captain.Įven if we stick with our traditional approach to concession stands - life-sapping queues and reprehensible pricing - we should be braced for an attitude adjustment.
Now that booze has led to boos in France, there is little hope of any English events following the lead and allowing patrons to serve themselves. Self-service beer stations have not helped, as conceptually wise at sporting events as giving kids at Pizza Hut unchecked access to its Ice Cream Factory.
Old ideas of moderation are becoming unspooled and French tennis fans are on le razz. It has always been lively, but more readily-available alcohol has had a noticeable effect. So a concerning dispatch from Roland Garros and my colleague Simon Briggs this week, on the unruly behaviour marring the French Open. Bottle of wine with six-course lunch, glass for the kids so they know their claret from their Beaujolais, tiny beer when work finishes at 3pm, baguettes for goalposts: great stuff. Modern France has a reputation as the home of sensible drinking.
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