We got pulled into the Bowlplex place at the side of the A8 and about 5,000 Polis awaited

Bus was dry but what a joke

We got pulled just after the Kincardine Bridge. Our bus was dry, too. Someone on here had a great tip off about polis stamping down on it, so i informed the lads whom i was with on the bus of it and they polished them off before we got on.

Was anyone delayed getting to Hampden because of the crackdown or were you all ok? What about on the train? Some p&ber had a tipoff about police being on the trains as well.

We left in plenty time so were only held up by 15 minutes or so

Met some people who said the Polis were also on the trains and in the stations

Hardly a tip off, it was in the news the police were having a crackdown

I was more pissed off about the engineering works on the Glasgow - Edinburgh line. What a day to pick

We had a visit b4 we got on our bus plus we were also stopped at Kincardine bridge.

Our bus was dry

I doubt if they'll employ the same tactics against the Rugby crowd at Murrayfield come the 6 nations in the new year.

We travelled down from Inverness and our bus was stopped at Tomatin which is about 15 mins outside Inverness. Police were very sneaky about it we went past them at a layby and they had a couple of cars, van and about 6 police and we weren't stopped, then about a mile down the road we were pulled in by two police in a layby obviously trying to catch us out thinking once we'd gone past first lot we'd get torn into the booze. Forunately we knew the score as well and had a dry bus. As for the way back up the road ? Not stopped once and there was a lot of booze on our bus. So what was the whole point ? Surely they were trying to stop you drinking on buses and not just on your way to a Scotland game ?

Considering they get to drink in the ground probably not!

Got the train from Dundee and going there only 1 or 2 police having a quick look in plastic bags, i walked right through with a bottle of irn bru in my hand and my mate had a bottle of coke and there was none of this dipping sticks or that mentioned in the papers. Was plenty guys on train with drink, including the big bottles of magners and a few 6 packs of various other stuff. Coming back some arsehole of a policeman in Queens street grabbed me and searched me without warning - didnt have anything on me but i was the only one in the que for the train who seemed to get searched.

why the feck can't people go to football games without having to drink alcohol? What are they going to games for, the football game or the alcohol.
I wish the polis stopped football coaches regularly and anyone with any alcohol removed, perhaps given a fine.
Fed up sitting beside an arsehole reeking of booze at games, I didn't pay money to sit with someone who has alcohol problems.

Of course they won't, AND you can buy drink inside Murrayfield these days

Somewhere there will be a guy with a sore head bemoaning the fact he got stuck sitting next to a boring FUD like you at the game

I drove up yesterday 3 out of the 4 passengers in the car had carry-outs.

We didn't get stopped

Police came down to the station on warned us that they would be checking for drink in and around Hampden and testing bottles outside the ground which seems pointless when your not allowed bottles in anyway. They didn't bother aobut anyone drinking on out train on the way up or back down the road. Saw police at Central Station taking pictures and videos but not taking drink of anyone or searching for it.

Seen a police man talking a bottle of coke of a boy and himself breaking the seal to dip test it, ! What a waste of resources!

It's not illegal to drink on trains though, you simply say your going into town.

Job done.

I know the police were pulling people over at the Showcase Cinema, Coatbridge.

using his truncheon

Wrong.
It is illegal to drink on designated dry trains and saying that you are going into the town doesn't work. The offence is being in POSSESSION of ALCOHOL on the dry train wether it's open or not, a lot of people can't seem to grasp this fact.

.............rightly so that buses were getting pulled over. It is something we face on a regular basis when going to away games.

Quite bizarre we live in a society where people are labelled boring for not wanting to drink before a football game

i think it was more to do with the fact that he didn't want other people drinking either.

What was the whole point of it by the way , i got told it was because you were not allowed being drunk going to a sporting venue or something , but whats the point abdy just went to the pub before it anyway , we got stopped at Shell garage in Dundee but got into glasgow for 11 , the other bus that left from the same pub as us got stopped twice and only got into glasgow at 1 o clock because of it.

The plods were doing their usual in Central Station and, as I understand it, on the train to Mount Florida and "giving a stern talking to" if they found anyone with a load of bevy. Me and the missus, though, got a nice, empty, cop-free train to Crossmyloof, then strolled unchallenged via a few Shawlands hostelries to the game, enjoying a nice, ahem, bottle of Coca Cola.

Plenty of flok were being stopped at Central Station.

The highlight of the day was a Norwegian wearing a Polar Bear costume and a Norway top who attemped to dissuade a Polis from confiscating his cargo by dry humping the Polis chap's leg.

Best comment so far.

[quote name='Monkey' date='Oct 12 2008, 18:12' post='2840435']
I doubt if they'll employ the same tactics against the Rugby crowd at Murrayfield come the 6 nations in the new year.
[/quothat will be due to the fact drink is allowed at murrayfield. the rugby crowds seem to be more trusted

I was searched whilst changing trains at Haymarket but they did not open my bottle of coke as it was in a shopping bag with 2 newspapers and looked like it had just been bought.
Shame too, if he had been more thorough, he'd have found it was laced with Morgans!

I also witnessed several buses being pulled over and boarded before the Forth Road Bridge.

The whole sorry episode is just another example of how this country has it's priorities so wrong...
Ok, we will employ the whole of the police force in the Central Belt to make sure that decent football fans can't relax before the big game.

Never mind the day-to-day criminals who will be having a field day robbing cars and houses, safe in the knowledge that our bobbys are otherwise detained taking coke bottles from bairns and dipping god knows what in them.

The ones with major drink problems will find a way to get blootered and annoy people no matter what the polis do.
They need to realise that the vast majority of fans can enjoy themselves without causing trouble, especially at a Scotland-Norway game where there is as much chance of violence as a night at the bingo with my granny.

This is a violation of human rights in my opinion.

I read once somewhere a few years ago, that as well as the obvious increase in violence, non-violent crime like burglaries and car theft in Scotland goes up noticeably on the days of Old Firm games, purportedly because police resources are employed in town centres stopping Huns and Tims kicking seven bells out of one another. Did anyone get burgled whilst half the nation's police were employed dip testing bottles of coke?

You have a 'Missus'? First I knew of this. Congrats.

Unless you'd just been drinking from a magic bottle and imagined 'her'?