Safe Standing

[politico]

I realise this is a sensitive issues, but at the same time you probably have diverse views on this subject.

Anyway the government response is negative as "apart from the fans"

nobody else has requested this.

Are they for real-apart from the fans-who else matters!!

read full response here

 

AFFORDABLE FOOTBALL ALLIANCE • View topic - Right to Stand

[robbief]

the back of the kop stand more often than not, quite right too. the whole kop should stand but there's too many pricks who would rather sit and talk about work than get behind the team. i wonder why they bother keeping their season tickets on? there was a lad by us aganst newcastle who was on a normal ticket and the lads who are there every week took the piss because he was getting in on the torres song/dance/jumpy thing. infront of us there are 3 fellas and a kid, all the fellas just play stupid games with the kid all through the game. the kid doesn't even smile when they 'rob his nose' any more. bastardisation os the kop i tell thee!

[Paul]

I wonder if this is an issue SOS might be able to consider.

[Spy Bee]

Robbie have you started on the roids? You seem a bit angry these past few days.

[Tom R]

I'm well up for safe standing.

 

Contrary to lefty liberal whinging fucknuts standing is NOT dangerous. What is dangerous is trapping people in cages like fucking animals.

[RedinSweden]

I am very much in favour of safe standing. I can understand that it is sensitive, but it really is possible.

[robbief]

standing can't be anything but safe with seats, none can get squashed or that so its sweet. also seats are too narrow. my mate sits to the left and he sits half on my knee and i sit half on the lad next to me. not cool. standing prevents this.

[lifetime fan]

I've posted this a few times but I'll say it again. The original Taylor report did not say anything about all seater stadia, it was only after Sir Bert Millichip and Greame Kelly suggested to him that he may want to add it to his reccomendations.

 

This is the same Kelly and Millichip that were shareholders in a plastics company on the brink of financial ruin, until they all of a sudden got over 90% of the contracts to supply plastic seats to football clubs up and down the country.

 

Corrupt cunts.

[Hazel Motes]

[Guest davelfc]

Not wanting to start a whole new thread, read this today.

 

 

Sunderland suspend season tickets of fans who persistently stand up | Football | guardian.co.uk

 

Sunderland have taped up the seats of fans who refuse to sit down during games at the Stadium of Light.

 

Supporters of the club who persistently stand during matches have been suspended from using their season tickets. A photo circulated on Twitter shows a seat with a note on it saying: "This season card has been suspended due to persistent standing."

[rubberduckstyle]

Went on to Blackburn a few times last season with mates who support them and it was mayhem on the Darwen End. Nobody sat down for a minute. Pretty sure we bought tickets for that end once even though the stand had sold out.

[VladimirIlyich]

I've posted this a few times but I'll say it again. The original Taylor report did not say anything about all seater stadia, it was only after Sir Bert Millichip and Greame Kelly suggested to him that he may want to add it to his reccomendations.

 

This is the same Kelly and Millichip that were shareholders in a plastics company on the brink of financial ruin, until they all of a sudden got over 90% of the contracts to supply plastic seats to football clubs up and down the country.

 

Corrupt cunts.

 

This is a great post LF and supports my theory that at the time of the disaster there was a campaign spearheaded by Jimmy Hill,then Coventry Chairman,to install seats in all top division football grounds.This was not done for safety reasons but simply for profit.

 

The disaster provided the ammunition to do this cynically on the back of it.

 

In principle I am all for safe standing BUT this has only become a debate because of the above policy and the cynical overpricing of watching football matches.

 

Its one of the main reasons I hate the FA and wonder how they've managed to avoid the blame they deserve over the years since.

 

The decision on reintroducing standing falls on 96 families and I am happy to go with their decision.

[Tony Moanero]

the whole kop should stand but there's too many pricks who would rather sit and talk about work than get behind the team. i wonder why they bother keeping their season tickets on?

 

 

They like watching live football?

[Rafiagra]

Standing presents far more risks than seating and it cannot just be a populist decision. The problem isnt people standing, its the surge from the back whener there is an incident. Every club has a responsibility and duty of care to its fans, and are unlikely to leave themselves open to any scenario that could increase the risk of harm to its fans.

[Strontium]

The problem isnt people standing, its the surge from the back whener there is an incident.

 

 

Which isn't an issue with the modern safe standing areas.

[Sugar Ape]

 

Which isn't an issue with the modern safe standing areas.

 

Correct. I'm on my phone so can't post pictures, but have a look at the German stadia with safe standing. They are perfectly safe.

[njackets]

Prick on Five live ripping into our away the whole game for standing, can't remember the last time I went to the match and sat down. I'm all for safe standing, for all those arguing against it the clue is in the wording SAFE standing.

[lroy]

i was in the leppings lane 88-89 and been a kop season ticket holder since 86 standing at football was not the problem as we found out it was the fa police and sheffield wed stewards on that day

[Original202]

 

The decision on reintroducing standing falls on 96 families and I am happy to go with their decision.

 

With the greatest respect to them, it really doesn't and nor should it.

[VladimirIlyich]

 

With the greatest respect to them' date=' it really doesn't and nor should it.[/quote']

 

What?

If you are a Liverpool supporter it absolutely should.

[xerxes]

The decision on reintroducing standing falls on 96 families and I am happy to go with their decision.

 

A nice sentiment, but in practise it is as logical as offering the families of air crash a veto on the CAA Board or the families of car crashes a veto on DOT decisions.

 

Hillsborough is not a disaster defined by standing, but by an unique combination of things going wrong- the very stuff of disaster.

 

I am in favour of choice. I also acknowledge that no-one was ever killed or injured in a terraced main stand paddock. I do not think the present ad hoc standing at football matches is desirable, nor do I think that standing can return without significant building work, making it unlikely in all but new stands.

[Spy Bee]

It might make going to the game more affordable and help clubs re-engage with a number of fans that they have lost or are losing!

[Phoenix]

I imagine ticket prices wont be reducing safe standing or not. If its one seat one standing place there is no incentive for clubs to bring it in.

[Spy Bee]

I imagine ticket prices wont be reducing safe standing or not. If its one seat one standing place there is no incentive for clubs to bring it in.

It's not

[Lee909]

I didn't think UEFA allow standing

If started over here wouldn't we have to have the seats like they have in Germany where the seat can be locked back for standing and dropped down during European games.