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伦敦——英国首相安迪·伯纳姆将英国顶级男子足球赛事看台内的酒精禁令称为“歧视”，并向球迷们暗示这项实施了40多年的禁令或将被取消。
“我认为将足球球迷单独挑出来加以限制是不公平的，”伯纳姆周三在纽约对记者表示，他当时正在那里出席联合国大会。
他暗示将开展试点，重新允许在体育场看台内饮酒。
1985年，时任首相玛格丽特·撒切尔领导的英国政府在英格兰和威尔士禁止男子足球比赛看台内饮酒。
当时的内政大臣利昂·布里坦表示，酒精是足球场“暴力和骚乱行为的主要诱因”。
自那以后，英国前五级别联赛的男子足球赛事观众均不允许在球场可视范围内饮酒。观众仍可在赛前和中场休息时在球场通道内购买并饮用酒精饮料，但不能将其带回座位。
英国其他体育项目均未受到此类禁令限制。
在一些年代较早、设施较简陋的足球场，中场休息时购买啤酒的队伍可能排得极长，以至于观众会在裁判吹响中场结束哨声前就离开座位。
英国足球球迷协会周四在一份声明中表示，该协会“一直主张将看球时喝一品脱啤酒定为刑事犯罪是不公平的”，并指出许多俱乐部都支持重新引入看台饮酒政策，补充道：“我们欢迎首相的表态，完全认同这项立法已经过时。”
在英格兰最高级别女子足球赛事——女子超级联赛成功试点后，本赛季开始以来，女子足球赛事的观众已被允许在看台内饮酒。
作为英超俱乐部埃弗顿的季票持有者，伯纳姆在当选首相前不久就曾批评过这项限制措施。
当被问及周三是否仍持相同观点时，他表示：“我认为这项立法出台的时代与足球运动现状截然不同……我确实认为有理由取消这种歧视。可以通过多种方式实现这一目标，也可以通过试点方式推行。”
“我不会放弃自己长期以来的立场，”他说，“我不明白，为何某一项运动的支持者会受到区别对待。”
不过，这项禁令的出台有其缘由。
20世纪70年代和80年代的英国足球流氓乱象——有时被称为“英国病”——涉及隶属于足球俱乐部的敌对帮派球迷互相斗殴，破坏球场内外区域。
多起与足球流氓行为相关的重大死亡事件推动了这项酒精禁令的出台，其中包括一名14岁男孩在伯明翰城与利兹联球迷发生冲突后，被警察推挤撞墙身亡的案件。
长期以来，警方一直支持这项立法。
英国足球警务部门的一位发言人在接受哥伦比亚广播公司新闻英国合作媒体BBC采访时表示：“其他体育项目的支持者并不会出现足球赛事中出现的暴力和犯罪行为，尽管这只是少数群体，但酒精往往是暴力和骚乱行为的重要诱因。”
“如果在比赛期间允许更多人饮酒，无疑会助长这类行为，这是不负责任的，”他们补充道，“如果不全面审查相关证据，不与具备该领域专业知识的警务人员进行有意义的磋商，就做出根本性改变，那将是极其轻率的。”
不过，2021年一项由球迷主导的英国足球法律审查呼吁对这项立法进行重新审议。
在同样有足球暴力历史的苏格兰，自1981年起就禁止足球场饮酒，但近期已重新推行看台售酒，如今球迷可在该国国家足球场汉普顿公园球场购买酒精饮料。
Could U.K. soccer fans get their beers back? Prime Minister Andy Burnham teases possible end of 40-year ban
September 24, 2026 / 12:27 PM EDT / CBS News
London— British Prime Minister Andy Burnham has called the ban on alcohol in the stands at high-level men’s soccer matches in the U.K. “discrimination,” teasing fellow fans with a possible reversal of a more than 40-year-old ban.
“I don’t think it’s fair for football fans to be singled out,” Burnham told reporters in New York on Wednesday, where he is attending the United Nations General Assembly.
He hinted at a trial to reintroduce alcohol consumption in stadium seating.
The U.K. government, under then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, banned alcohol in the bleachers at men’s soccer games in England and Wales in 1985.
Home Secretary Leon Brittan said at the time that booze was a “major contributory factor in violent and disorderly behavior” in soccer stadiums.
Since then, fans attending men’s soccer games in the top five divisions have not been allowed to drink alcohol in view of the pitch. People can still buy and drink alcohol in the concourse before games and during halftime, but they cannot carry it back to their seats.
No other sports are subject to such a ban in the U.K.
At some older, less well-equipped soccer grounds, lines for pints of beer can get so long during halftime that fans will leave their seats before the referee blows the whistle.
In a statement, the Football Supporters’ Association said Thursday that it has “always argued that it’s unfair to criminalize football fans for having a pint while watching the match,” and it argued that many clubs are in favor of a reintroduction of alcohol, adding: “We welcome the prime minister’s comments and totally agree that the legislation is outdated.”
After a successful pilot run in the Women’s Super League, the highest level of English women’s soccer, fans of the women’s game have been allowed to drink in the stands since the beginning of the current season.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham (center) sits in the stands during a Premier League match between Everton and Crystal Palace FC, at Hill Dickinson Stadium, Aug. 22, 2026, in Liverpool, England. Simon Stacpoole/Offside/Offside/Getty
Burnham, who’s a season ticket holder at Premier League club Everton, criticized the restriction shortly before becoming prime minister.
Asked Wednesday if he still held the same view, he said: “I think that legislation dates to an era where football was very different … And I do believe there is a case to remove that discrimination. There are different ways it could be done. It could happen on a trial basis.”
“I’m not going to back away from what’s been a long-held view of mine,” he said. “I don’t see how it can be fair that some supporters of one sport can be treated differently.”
Prime Minister Andy Burnham reacts while holding a pint of beer as he visits the Hare Inn in Harlow, Essex, England, in a July 23, 2026, file photo. Richard Pohle-WPA Pool/Getty
The ban was imposed with reason, however.
Soccer hooliganism in 1970s and 1980s England — sometimes referred to as the “English Disease” — involved fans in rival gangs linked to soccer clubs fighting each other and vandalizing areas in and around stadiums.
Several high-profile deaths linked to hooliganism, including that of a 14-year-old boy who died when fans were pushed into a wall by police after violence between Birmingham City and Leeds United fans, led to the alcohol ban.
Police have long supported the legislation.
“Other sports simply don’t see the violence and criminal behavior from their supporters that football does, albeit a minority, with alcohol often playing a significant part in violent and disorderly behavior,” a spokesperson for the U.K.’s Football Policing Unit said, according to CBS News’ U.K. partner network the BBC.
“It would be irresponsible to fuel this by allowing greater alcohol consumption during games,” they said, adding that it would be “incredibly rash to make fundamental changes without a full examination of the evidence and meaningful consultation with police practitioners who have the expertise in this area.”
A fan-led review of U.K. laws around soccer in 2021 called for the legislation to be reviewed, however.
In Scotland, which also has a history of soccer-related violence, alcohol has been banned from soccer stadiums since 1981, but recent trials have seen it reintroduced, and fans can now buy booze at games at Hampden Park, the country’s national soccer stadium.
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