EVERY day of our lives we are told not to discriminate.

It’s wrong and even if you think one set of people is better than another, it is PC to keep it to yourself.

Yet, there is terrible discrimination going on in Guernsey sport or, to be exact, the logistics of staging the biggest sporting events.

Never was it more evident than the May Day ‘super weekend’ which saw us stage the Siam Cup, the National League System Cup and a bumper horse race meeting.

We’re talking booze and, more importantly, who can drink it and where.

I like a sup, but there are few things I hate more than moronic public behaviour caused by drunkenness.

But, have you noticed, it seems in Guernsey if you are a banker in a suit you can get away with far more than if you are a plumber in a pair of jeans and

T-shirt, or that matter a dressed-to-the-nines ‘lady’ in a fancy hat.

It was rammed home to me while watching the Siam Cup at Foote’s Lane then the NLS Cup final at the Track and the horse racing, all great spectacles but operating under different sets of rules.

The Track was a no-booze zone, unless you had access to the tight confines of the Bels clubhouse.

It worked a treat, and while the boisterous and harmless nature of a 100 or so of the crowd had no doubt something to do with how much they had put back that afternoon along the road at the Red Lion, there was no hint of trouble as a result of the police’s apparently unilaterally conceived drinking ban which the GFA knew nothing about until they read about it in this paper.

I have no argument with the police’s stance to the ‘dry’ Track policy, but one has to question whether it is morally right to stop one section of the community from drinking at a sports ground when you allow others to do it at another.

Foote’s Lane has long prevented public drinking at football matches there, but if your sport is rugby or hockey, it appears not to be a problem.

As I and many others witnessed on Siam day, people were allowed to drink outside the designated bar area, walk over the unprotected running track with beer in their hands and with the potential to stub out cigarettes onto the synthetic surface, large swathes of it being unprotected.

There were drunks young and old. The young included players involved in the junior Siams, plainly under-age.

In front of me a man who should know better, was so hammered he spent most of the Siam urging a bunch of

10-year-olds to climb over the athletics timekeepers step with moronic chants of ‘green-and-white army’.

He barely had the coordination to clap his hands above his head.

There was not a policeman in sight to tell him to shut up or go home, or both. Naturally, there were a handful of bobbies at the Track, where you were not allowed to drink.

I have no problem with the ban on public drinking, but it should exist at all sports events and not simply football, or not all.

Day in, day out we are told that it is wrong to discriminate in a list of ways longer than the Foote’s Lane running straight.

But the current rules in sport, and particularly so at Foote’s Lane,  suggests one range/class of people can be trusted with drink, but another class cannot.

But how does that work when I want to be a rugby fan one day, a football one another?

As we all know, you don’t have to be posh or poor to act like a pillock with drink inside of you, or act violently for that matter.

It seems to me domestic football is still paying for the ugly days when crowd trouble stained Murattis.

But that was an awful long time ago and it is time football crowds were given more credit.

GUERNSEY footballers return to the spotlight at Springfield this afternoon and we all hope that Tony Vance’s men can reproduce the form that saw them become NLS Cup champions.

It won’t be easy.

Jersey, I fancy, will be stronger all-round than Liverpool were and tighter defensively. They will be fitter also.

Perhaps the biggest question the answer to we will know by five o’clock this afternoon, is can our lads clear their heads and system of the sheer emotion of last weekend?

I reckon they can and predict a 3-2 win in an open game.