And disabled concessions in every stand. Yes I'd say Southampton have got it right. It closely mirrors what City offered until about five years ago (with the exception that they have premium seats on both sides of the halfway line, not just one side as City have).
The SAG enforce national guidelines, they don't actually arbitrarily decide what should or shouldn't happen.
So away fans not being allowed in Upper tiers due to the dangers caused by them standing up and thus surging forward and plunging over causing death and destruction to themselves and others is ignored by Newcastle, Sunderland, Chelsea and QPR amongst others?
Under 18 should be £100 tops They can put mine back up to £450 or a bit more if they must When us oldies pop off we will have no fans .
Worst thing the Allams have done at our club Why should someone at school pay the same as an adult Its a ****ing vile idea
I was at those and I know no such thing. I was also at the Exeter and Bristol City games this season and they were good atmospheres. The vocal backing at Manchester City away recently was very poor, a touch hard though to blame Southerners for this. Part of the reason is, as has already been pointed out, the 'tourist type' buying up tickets for games. Chelsea away is a prime example of this, as it was like been in downtown Shanghai! Feel free to pick other selected games to support your flawed argument. That is all from me though. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
We could, but there were so many restrictions that it made it more problems than it was worth. And the away fans (at least a significant number of them) need to be pitch-side now anyway.
I know there is now and that renders it impractical in the KC. But I was quoting the pathetic reasons given at the time before the pitch side regulation came in. Newcastle will be the ones with the biggest problem on that one. Though it it'll cause problems to any team which has two tiers which they utilise according to the amount of away fans.
Newcastle have made an application for an exemption on safety grounds, but it looks more like an excuse than a genuine reason.
Loads of reasons why and the club waned this. First, shared stairways, no segregation, shared concourse, shared everything. And the police objected to it. So it will never happen.
I wanna be a Southampton fan. Family areas in two corners and they let the ****ers on the pitch as well. Ace
Away fans should always be pitch side. Look where they stick them in Spain it's totally as far away as possible.
Problems which could be overcome. It was the statement that the West Upper was so high and so steep that it made it dangerous which amused me. The police would object to anything. The fact is the KC was badly designed from the outset with no thought given to segregation in a full house. As we discussed at the time, it was designed after numerous consultations with RL fans based on this utopian ideal of fans swapping ends and everyone mixing happily on the concourse. The realities of City playing in the higher leagues with 3,000 away fans, not all of them angelic choirboy, was not considered. Reading, a similar sized stadium, was designed so the away allocation can be catered for and if not sold out the remaining seats occupied by home fans. Either way they lose about 60 seats for segregation which is one aisle way wide. We had the situation where we had fans turned away for a League 2 game with over 2,000 empty seats inside. Something which has never been fully sorted out.
