Jez Ryan has been coming to Birmingham City for three decades but has never been able to experience a match like this before. Watching her beloved Blues while boozing. Sipping on a beer, taking the edge away from a freezing and rain-soaked afternoon at St Andrew's.
Drowning her sorrows as Bristol City-supporting friends are toasting their goals flowing in. Dry January this isn't. But this could be seen as public service drinking. Each pint downed is helping authorities assess whether it's safe to allow drinking in stadiums like these again for the first time in four decades at English football.
For now only the women's game is part of trials and only in the second-tier Championship - also at Bristol City, Southampton and Newcastle United. "I think it's wonderful," Ms Ryan says. "But I don't think today is a measure of if it was in the Premier League.
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"But I think it will work if it's monitored properly. I think people are responsible now. "There is less thuggery in the game. People are responsible. It's more family-oriented in the game. "It's a day out like a musical festival. So if that's the culture change we need, then bring it on.".
