I'm going to the birmingham game tomorrow and have a 5 hour coach journey to get to London, these are mind numbingly boring and was thinking of doing uni work on the coach to do something useful but are you allowed a back pack into the ground?

Yep. They might search it but papers are fine.

You should be ok, I get in fine with my fetching pink clutch bag!

Leave the bag at home and get the brewskis in you.