The alcohol ban – which does not cover hospitality sections of grounds – was introduced following a riot during the 1980 Scottish Cup final between Rangers and Celtic at Hampden.<\/p>\n
The Scottish Beer and Pub Association (SBPA) argues the restrictions are outdated and it would like to see a season-long trial being held, paving the way for a possible permanent lifting of the ban.<\/p>\n
Trials have recently been held at matches at Arbroath, Ayr United, Queen of the South and Stirling Albion prior to the start of the league season.<\/p>\n
St Johnstone was also granted permission to sell alcohol to supporters at two games but the Pittodrie trial was the first for a top-flight match. <\/p>\n
A legislative change would be required to amend part of the Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 1995 to allow the regular sale of alcohol at football stadiums.<\/p>\n
A Scottish government spokesperson said: “Our position on alcohol sales at Scottish football grounds has not changed.<\/p>\n
“It is for local licensing authorities and Police Scotland to satisfy themselves that the pilot projects are permissible within the current legislative framework when granting licences.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The alcohol ban – which does not cover hospitality sections of grounds – was introduced following a riot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-316084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}