Originally Posted by owenmahamilton:
“I've never understood why people are allowed to bring these things to football matches, they can be dangerous and I don't get why they aren't confiscated when people go through the turnstiles, in this age of terrorism surely every fan should be searched before they are let in and if found with one then they should be told to go away.”
I imagine that a person would be turned away if they were searched and those items were found but, as maxatoria said, it'd be impossible to search everybody going into a football match!
ETA: Mind you, I went to see Billy Joel at Wembley Stadium, over 70,000 people and most of us were searched - my bag was searched 3 times as they didn't believe I'd never had drugs in there

People turn up hours early for concerts though.