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BBC Sport - Safe standing: Lib Dems make 2015 General Election pledge
Safe standing: Lib Dems make 2015 General Election pledge
Great, we'll definitely get safe standing now...
Isn't the idea though, that they prove to the health and safety zealots that you can stand, safely. Or have I just missed the point of this whole idea entirely?I see no way that safe standing will be introduced at the Lane or anywhere else in the PL. Too many issues for the health and safety zealots, alongside the spectres of Hillsborough, Heysel etc.
I don't know enough about Hillsborough to pass judgment, but wasn't part of the problem the fact that unmanned gates were targeted by fans without tickets, causing a huge overcrowding & in consequence the trampling & crushing of fans who had tickets & were legitimately in the stadium? I stand to be corrected on this, but surely in the modern age, security on the gates will make sure that people without tickets can't get in whether they are standing or seated...they didn't make Donington all seater when a fan got crushed to death after a huge surge forwards for Guns n Roses. Where there are large crowds there is always going to be a risk element. I went to the eminem gig at wembley recently. We were all getting crushed...in the bottleneck back to the tube station after the gig! A few people passed out I understand-even on the packed out trains- but nobody died. A well organised, ticket only standing area allows people to enjoy the event, whatever it is, in the way they can maximise their own experience.
I don't know enough about Hillsborough to pass judgment, but wasn't part of the problem the fact that unmanned gates were targeted by fans without tickets, causing a huge overcrowding & in consequence the trampling & crushing of fans who had tickets & were legitimately in the stadium? I stand to be corrected on this, but surely in the modern age, security on the gates will make sure that people without tickets can't get in whether they are standing or seated...they didn't make Donington all seater when a fan got crushed to death after a huge surge forwards for Guns n Roses. Where there are large crowds there is always going to be a risk element. I went to the eminem gig at wembley recently. We were all getting crushed...in the bottleneck back to the tube station after the gig! A few people passed out I understand-even on the packed out trains- but nobody died. A well organised, ticket only standing area allows people to enjoy the event, whatever it is, in the way they can maximise their own experience.
I don't know enough about Hillsborough to pass judgment, but wasn't part of the problem the fact that unmanned gates were targeted by fans without tickets, causing a huge overcrowding ...