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Should have put some more stamps on it.
Hi, I'll put this in here, as the new stadium has some relevance to safe standing, which I completely support BTW.
It's just I can't find the stadium thread, and don't want to start one as there must be one somewhere I assume.
http://www.tottenhamhotspur-mad.co.uk/feat/ed11/stadium_update_783256/index.shtml?
Seems like a bit of good news.
Please feel free to move/delete it if there's a better place.
It's just I can't find the stadium thread, and don't want to start one as there must be one somewhere I assume.
http://www.tottenhamhotspur-mad.co.uk/feat/ed11/stadium_update_783256/index.shtml?
Seems like a bit of good news.
Please feel free to move/delete it if there's a better place.
I think this is a brilliant idea, kudos to the Spurs fans that are working towards this.
In the new stadium, would the one tier stand("kop") be the best stand to make a standing area? It works in the Bundesliga and if we have a one-tier stand with a great part of the fans standing and singing it would certainly be fantastic for our club...just imagine!!
In the new stadium, would the one tier stand("kop") be the best stand to make a standing area? It works in the Bundesliga and if we have a one-tier stand with a great part of the fans standing and singing it would certainly be fantastic for our club...just imagine!!
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Brilliant work lads!
Especially liked the comment from Jon Darch, operator of the Safe Standing Roadshow:
“... it would be great to see London’s top club now also acknowledge the clear wishes of so many of their passionate fans by expressing support for a few small-scale trials of safe standing.”
Especially liked the comment from Jon Darch, operator of the Safe Standing Roadshow:
“... it would be great to see London’s top club now also acknowledge the clear wishes of so many of their passionate fans by expressing support for a few small-scale trials of safe standing.”
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...
Safe standing: Lib Dems make 2015 General Election pledge
Great, we'll definitely get safe standing now...
Lib dems are going for safe standing and decriminalising possession.
If they weren't such spineless idiots they would be onto something.
Would love to see you guys on the telly standing, would make it amazing to watch.
Why do some people not understand the concept of 'safe standing'?
You have an allocated place to stand - it's no fucking different to sitting in your allocated seat.
Only ones who'll miss out are the kids, as they're too small. Not everyone wants to stand, that's fine. But one whole stand dedicated to safe standing is fine in my book.
You have an allocated place to stand - it's no fucking different to sitting in your allocated seat.
Only ones who'll miss out are the kids, as they're too small. Not everyone wants to stand, that's fine. But one whole stand dedicated to safe standing is fine in my book.
The absurdity of it all is that you go to a music gig & you have a choice of whether to stand or have a seat. As long as they don't overcrowd the standing area, everyone is safe to enjoy the gig as they would prefer. Football should be no different
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?
Yeah but apparently every time someone mentions safe standing, somewhere in the world a scouse fairy dies...
It would be quite ironic if the first safe standing area in the country was a kop. But we're not to call it that. I don't want any association with the victims.
It would be quite ironic if the first safe standing area in the country was a kop. But we're not to call it that. I don't want any association with the victims.
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.
Yeah and hasn't it been found that South Yorkshire Police bollocksed it up by not opening enough gates to let everyone out after it was clear people were getting crushed?
No no no, you've got it all wrong. The friendly and sober Liverpool supporters (greatest supporters in the world by the way) were waiting patiently in an orderly fashion outside the ground to be escorted to their seats when the nasty police released 20 man-eating tigers behind them and chased the fans into the pens with batons. It was all a master plan by the police to sell more Sun newspapers.
Or something like that, anyway.
no.