King Billy
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Random question I know but noticed fans at Leyton Orient are doing it so given the rooms overlook the pitch is that possible?
Didn’t Owen do a lot of peeking into the slit in the hotel room !!Don't the curtains have to be closed during matches you'd have to peek threw the slit.
Ooh err missusDidn’t Owen do a lot of peeking into the slit in the hotel room !!
Yes...if it was him then he was outside of the ground when I arrived with His wife and two kids ...wearing a Swindon Town shirt ...and he went into the hotel.The swindon commentator mentioned one swindon fan had done so. He said something like - 'there's 1000 blackpool fans and 1 swindon fan Steve Swindonfan who has booked a room overlooking the pitch' - I'm sure I heard that anyway!
Thanks but no, I am no longer employed at the hotel so had to watch it on iFollow!I noticed the Chair of BST couldn't get a ticket for Saturday's game and wondered if she snook in to one of the rooms Deserved it if you did @CSSeasider
So what is the point of having a hotel overlooking a pitch?
Bizarre, hope you’re keeping well ChristineThanks but no, I am no longer employed at the hotel so had to watch it on iFollow!
It is true that people who book a pitch view room are not allowed to watch a game from the room. It's all to do with EFL regulations about watching football and alcohol! The curtains have to be drawn. Even the main hospitality suite has to pull the blinds down, and guests have to watch from the seats on the balcony. The only way to legally watch from a room would be if the occupants sat in the seats outside, which would require a steward. The 3rd floor rooms were used as extra executive boxes a few years ago.
Obviously, people in those pitch view rooms will peek through the curtains but the hotel staff and the stewards have to make every effort to prevent that as the club is responsible for policing this particular regulation.
Hope that explains things!
You can't drink and watch football. Thatcherite legislation that has never been repealed.Why are the EFL arsed about that? Of all the things to be concerned about in football, that's a truly odd one. I could see the hotel itself being concerned about it in terms of behaviour, rooms getting trashed and such, but the EFL? Why? What's it to them?
Is it because the hotel isn't 'licenced' as part of the ground and thus doesn't have a safety cert or something weird like that? Because someone could drink and see the pitch? How does a hotel room differ from an exec box in that respect? I've never been in one, I assume you can't drink in one of those either...?
You do know the South Stand would block the view? You'd be better off up the Tower.Travel Lodge it is then with a pair of binoculars.....
Sorry to hear you've left the hotel @CSSeasider - don't find out anything now we can't all meet - hope you have something else to replace it withThanks but no, I am no longer employed at the hotel so had to watch it on iFollow!
It is true that people who book a pitch view room are not allowed to watch a game from the room. It's all to do with EFL regulations about watching football and alcohol! The curtains have to be drawn. Even the main hospitality suite has to pull the blinds down, and guests have to watch from the seats on the balcony. The only way to legally watch from a room would be if the occupants sat in the seats outside, which would require a steward. The 3rd floor rooms were used as extra executive boxes a few years ago.
Obviously, people in those pitch view rooms will peek through the curtains but the hotel staff and the stewards have to make every effort to prevent that as the club is responsible for policing this particular regulation.
Hope that explains things!