Yeah but how do you stop someone turning up the stand to the standing area instead of sitting down. Think of this like a Leeds fan, they are sheep and follow each other everywhere. They won't understand the difference and then it will all kick off when the stewards try to stop them getting to the standing area, or standing in the seated area because they guys 4 rows back are all stood in the safe standing area.
There would have to be a designated block/area of the stand that you can only get in if you have bought a standing ticket
Copy of my letter to my MP which may help others with ideas. Dear David Davis, Standing Areas of Choice at Football Stadiums I don’t know if you are a football fan or a fan of any sport watched in a public stadium. If you are you may have visited a football stadium to watch a match between rivals and witnessed the intense atmosphere and enjoyment this brings. Fans used to stand throughout the matches, the close proximity of likeminded supporters engenders the ‘football songs’ which have always been a part of our culture, and indeed are copied now in most countries. But in the UK is still special. The atmosphere at games since all seater stadiums for football games where introduced (by law) has steadily been diluted and youngsters now have no idea how exciting it used to be. As a child I would walk home energised by the whole affair and that is what gave me a love of football. In some way sitting for 90 minutes inhibits singing and we are losing this ingredient of the game. What now happens in all seater stadiums is that some people do stand up, sometimes all the game and sometimes when a goal or other incident occurs. A lot of the time it’s a knee-jerk reaction and they cannot help it. This causes friction between supporters as those behind cannot see. Stewards police the areas but it is impossible to stop it all the time. In Europe, especially Germany an answer has been found which is to keep the stadium as an ‘all-seated’ one but have barriers in front between rows of seats, allowing those areas with this facility to be designated as ‘standing’ areas. Therefore you can have one or two stands with this facility or maybe part of a stand. It allows elderly people to sit down as necessary and at half time or before the game. Another crucial issue is cost. Stadiums often need to have an increase in capacity (if say the club move to a higher league etc) and at this point many stands have to be re-built at a massive cost. With the seat/barrier idea, the cost is much reduced and knew construction is not required. The capacity in a particular area can be increased by 50 to 80%. Check http://www.safestandingroadshow.co.uk/myt hs for the busting of the ill-informed myths that safe standing would:- Discourage women, be harder to police, difficult to convert grounds, obstruct views etc. etc. and http://www.hullcityindependent.net/?...ws&news_id=832 There is a campaign throughout football for some standing areas to return to the game. These areas can be safer than all seated areas. I would request that you give the campaign your full support. Yours sincerely,
Great letter but you should know that your 'Myths' link won't work because you've missed a couple of letters off. Change that before sending it unless you alreayd have.
Great letter. Would you mind a copy and paste campaign? Yes I am just being lazy and not the greatest writer, but I doubt it would be sent to same mp's as I am not in Hull
Simple. The whole end is standing. Look at the German grounds, the whole end is seating or standing depending on the game, European or domestic. At dortmund one end is all standing and the other end is standing at the bottom and seating on the tier above. there is no way they are next to each other. You are making complications where none need exist. As for what you said about flow etc, surely if they can manage 25,000 behind one goal at Dortmund then surely managing 5-10,000 shouldn't beyond us at the KC. Have look at the link for German stadiums. It is worth nting that although cheap prices are often quoted for standing areas the top priced seats are often more than double ours despite the capacity of the ground being much higher than what the KC would be even with any increase in capacity so anyone thinking that an increased capacity is a surefire way of cheap prices all round is going to be disappointed. http://www.nflstadiumguide.com/germany.htm
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