The FA have backed it, sort of: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/45341192 Good, bad or don't care?
Seeing as the average football attending fan seems unable to go 2 hours without stuffing some grim pie or rustler burger down their throat I doubt many of them will be able to stand for 90 mins. Can see the demand for this dying out pretty quickly.
Given that only 300-500k people can watch a live football premier league game each week in the stadia compared to the hundreds of millions of premier league fans that there are in total who just follow their teams using live text, highlights, live TV or highlights... its probably statistically safe to say that the majority of premier league club fans simply don't go to live games, at least not often enough, to give a ****e whether there's standing or not.
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It will happen eventually. They can pack more people in and therefore make more money, and when have you ever known any business not to prioritise the buck over everything else? If it goes to a vote, already most of the teams in the league are down.
Agree it will happen eventually butd don't think many grounds will be able to increase capacity. Especially older ones.
Its better standing imo. Always has been. Its going through all the correct channels and keeps getting the thumbs up, so its coming.
I’m getting older now and probably prefer to sit. But if standing areas improve the atmosphere in the ground, I’m in favour, who wouldn’t be?
Good One of the first threads I wrote on here was about safe standing. And it was an issue that I’d raised on the old bbc 606 too. It still needs somebody is govt to pull their head out of their arse and approve it, but this is a step closer to that happening. I think we’ll see safe standing in the PL within the next 5 years.
Most of the safe standing designs aren’t about ‘packing people in’. In fact many of them have a fold away seat attached anyway, so they take up roughly the same space as a seat anyway. It’s not going to be like the old days of terraces and crush barriers. Also as Lieb says, many of the grounds have limits on capacity anyway, either because of the physical limitations of the stadium, or because the local council/police have put a cap on their capacity.
Even rail seating can increase capacity but it won't happen at most the old grounds, mainly due to exit sizes and concourses etc. so would involve rebuilding entire stand. Even some new grounds will struggle I think due to the incline not being steep enough - including St Marys imo. Wba's offer to trial was on a 1:1 basis and was the top half of the stand including the away end which is the best way to do it imo. I think that the first few trials will have to be a 1:1 ratio.
