For the first time in almost 40 years, football (soccer, for my fellow Americans) fans may be able to drink alcohol while watching games in their seats again. Here’s the full article from the Daily Mail: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/sportsnews/article-10750859/Plans-allow-fans-drink-alcohol-seats-matches-time-40-years.html.

They'll test the scheme first for safety reasons (after all, safety is why drinking alcohol was banned in the first place in 1985!), but it looks like the plans are going ahead.

You might think it doesn’t matter much, because people can already “pre-game” the matches, and there’s plenty of anecdotal evidence confirming they do so already.

Here’s why it matters: the government, it seems, is primarily making this change to provide the teams in the English Football League with 2 pounds of additional revenue per attending fan per game. That means this type of practice (adding drinking to previously dry activities) is likely to become more and more common as we slide into a global recession. It means more and more, people are going to have to look inward for the coping strategies that help them abstain or reduce their drinking levels in daily life.

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Best of luck with your goals,
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