Comments on: The rehabilitation of English football – The issue of safe standing http://backpagefootball.com/the-rehabilitation-of-english-football-the-issue-of-safe-standing/50395/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:52:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Alastair http://backpagefootball.com/the-rehabilitation-of-english-football-the-issue-of-safe-standing/50395/comment-page-1/#comment-245501 Alastair Sun, 04 Nov 2012 11:44:28 +0000 http://backpagefootball.com/?p=50395#comment-245501 Totally agree with safe standing, I am from Northern Ireland and at my national stadium Wndsor Park (14000 capacity all seater) We get tickets with our allocated seat but we stand for the whole game anyway. Because we have an allocated seat we are not crushed together like e days of terracing and because everyone is reasonably spaced and separated by the seats which are never used there is no such thing as a ‘surge’ when a goal is scored etc which is what is dangerous. We don’t even need crush barriers and the biggest stand is a single tier 6000 seater. It should be brought into the Stretford End, Kop etc in England crush barriers wouldn’t even be needed if the club kept to the one person a seat rule

]]> By: Steve Grant http://backpagefootball.com/the-rehabilitation-of-english-football-the-issue-of-safe-standing/50395/comment-page-1/#comment-244098 Steve Grant Fri, 02 Nov 2012 10:46:46 +0000 http://backpagefootball.com/?p=50395#comment-244098 It was unsurprising to see that the antiquated and ill-informed views on “safe standing” were out in full force on the Footballers’ Football Show on Sky last night.

Neither Keith Curle, Ray Wilkins or Paul Elliott had done any research at all on the subject so just trotted out the “safety” line, and you could see David Jones, the presenter, clearly trying to steer them towards a more realistic viewpoint but they weren’t having it.

Unfortunately, it’s going to take a hell of a lot more hard work to get these dinosaurs to even listen, let alone contribute to a sensible debate on the subject.

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