London Stadium to ban bottles

Operators London Stadium 185 together with caterers Delaware North will ban the sale of bottles from the Premier League match when West Ham face Sunderland later this month.

The London Stadium Safety Advisory Group (LS-SAG) which met earlier this week have decided all bottles must now be decanted and liquid contents poured into plastic glasses at all football matches going forward in the stadium.

The action follows an incident at the West Ham v Middlesborough game in which a number of beer bottles were used as missiles between both sets of fans in the lower stands. The news was revealed at a London wide supporters meeting tonight at the Lambeth headquarters of the Metropolitan Police football unit.

The stadium operators LS185 have a state of the art high definition CCTV system which is one of the best in the Premier League and has already identified the majority of those who threw plastic bottles or coins last weekend. We are told the supporters will receive letters from the club revoking their season tickets or banning this week and police prosecutions may follow. Met police told football supporters this evening that the system wide CCTV with the London stadium is so good it can accurately catch any offender after an incident.