13 Clubs back safe standing areas at grounds

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20679867

Aston Villa are the only premiership club backing this though.

 

I'm a big advocate of reintroducing safe standing into the premier league. With the help of the FSF this is now gathering some momentum.

Not everybody's cup of tea I know, but the bottom line is that I think fans should be given a choice

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/20679867

 

You'd better merge yours into mine.

I got there first.

 

You'd like that

 

Ha - sorry mate, just seen that

 

Both posted the same time . . . which one to merge ?

 

Obviously this would safely increase capacity and offercheaper tickets.

My question, is would Arsenal be allowed to implement this, given that they were capped with a limit because of travel infrastructure and the local community?

 

Imagine how much better the atmosphere would be if we ripped out the seats in the lower tiers at each end and replaced them with safe standing - we'd increase capacity too and be able to offer cheaper tickers.

Win win ?

 

Magic Man's fred is much more betterer than yours

 

Not sure, Utd have massively expanded OT and still have plans to extend it further. I'm pretty sure that we could negotiate with the local council and transport network to increase capacity.

 

nah mine is besterest

 

Don't forget that OT isn't slap bang in the middle of a residential area

 

We are stuck with a 60,000 capacity which can't be increased because of the reasons you've given.If safe standing was introduced and ticket prices reduced for those who chose to use it i wouldn't mind betting ticket prices for seats would be increased to cover lost revenue.

 

Yep true. But I think the transport network around Emirates is good enough to handle an increase in capacity. If hypothetically Arsenal did decide to replace blocks 7-1O and blocks

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with safe standing based on the rail design, I think we'd only be looking at around 5k - 8k increase in capacity, so it should be able to be accomodated. I'm not sure on the local planning agreements in place about our capacity though ???

 

As far as i'm concerned it's lose lose.I normally sit in the Clock End lower and if the seats were ripped out i would have to buy a more expensive seat in another part of the ground.

 

If we weren't able to increase capacity, then I think you would be right.

 

I'm almost certain that we are not allowed toincrease our capacity

 

If they were to rip out the seats, I'd be more than happy to keep them and save them the disposal fee
Has anyone actually been to a ground with comfier seats? I've got a bony arse so when I sit down on the usual fare it don't half get sore, but never had that problem at the Emirates

 

I though there were reports saying the Emirates could be expanded to 90k

 

That's so anal