It was reported that English fans, approximately 70,000 of them
consumed 1,200,000 pints of beer at the Trinidad/Tobago-England soccer
match in Germany. That is equivalent to 17 pints of beer for each
English soccer fan which is I would think more or less 17 pounds of
liquid in let's say a 4 hour  period. I would think in a crowd of
70,000 people it would be unlikely to find even 100 people that could
consume that much beer in 4 hours....Can someone point me to a medical
site or an authoritative site that would say that 15 or 17  20 pints
of beer in 4 hours is almost impossible to do or if it is possible to
do. I don't really need answers like "I don't think it is possible."
or "I have seen probono do this many times." thank you

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Clarification of Question by fredg2004-ga on 03 Jul 2006 08:14 PDT

i gave it 4 hours to ensure that it covered the total match. i am just
going by the article i read that it was consumed at the soccer match.
i don't see how unless the english lads have the same capacity of a
camel and not have the necessity to urinate after drinking even 3
pints. i have lived overseas in many different countries and have been
friends with some heavy heavy drinkers and i can truthfully say i have
never seen anyone drink 17 pounds of beer or water without stenuous
exercise taking place within the parameters of 3 hours which i imagine
a soccer match would be. i suppose many people can do it, but 70,000
all at one venue doing it?

I think the correct report should be that beer was not consumed during
the 90 minutes of the match, but either that day, or during their stay
in Nuremberg - reports vary. I afraid that an average of 17 pints of
beer per person is not unusual for some of my countrymen. Visit any
town or city during the week-end evening and you'll see plenty
examples of binge drinking.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=17302491&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=beer-we-go--name_page.html
The result is now a rise alcohol illness.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5132856.stm

There is no way of confirming that all that beer was drunk just by the
English, before, during and after the match, nor your suggested 4
hours.  They started early in the day and finished late in the
evening.

I understnd that the German breweries are having difficulty keeping up
with the overall demand, not just in the production but also with the
flow of recycle bottles and kegs.

Just wondereing why a report from the continent where they use Litres
became a rather exact number of pints

That is the suspicious thing about such statistics:  nice round
numbers, impressive, but whose?
Certainly there were not 70,000 English in the Nuremburg stadium; it
only seats 44,000, and less than half of them were English.
http://www.eurosport.com/football/worldcup/2006/sport_sto887861.shtml

The 70,000 has to be someone's estimate of the total number of Brits in Nuremburg.
Places before the video screens set up in public squares filled long
before the games.