Accessible stadia

Just watched an item on BBC news. Saints are one of only 5 PL clubs to provide the correct number of spaces for wheelchair users. With the amount of money sloshing around that's a total disgrace!

 

Actually Saints do NOT meet the required standard. Only Arsenal, Swansea and Bournemouth are 100% compliant.

 

http://revitalise.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Compliance_FINAL.pdf

 

According to this we do, although it is out of date. I don't know if that makes any difference.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/26630281

 

Look at link above.

 

If I were to be a pedant, I would say that they aren't requirements, but guidelines.



Have our disabled accommodations gone down, or have the guideline numbers gone up?

 

Are all our disabled spaces regularly used?

 

Hardly convincing, is it?

Looks like a bit of a muddle. BBC news as seen by OP says we are one of five, Revitalise say we're not one of the three who are, yet last year the BBC said we were one of the three who were.

I wonder who has it right?

Vin

 

BBC never said we were one of three who were.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33809489

 

Yes they did.

Vin

 

Seems like we're within a rounding error. I looked on the Revitalise website to find their maths. Nothing.

 

Evidence?

 

OK. Let's do a quick textual exegesis of the offending phrase in my post.

"BBC news as seen by OP says we are one of five"

Source: The OP said we were one of five compliant (from the BBC report he saw)

"Revitalise say we're not one of the three who are"

Source: You posted your link which said we weren't one of three.

"yet last year the BBC said we were one of the three who were."

Source: It's Only a Game posted a link to a BBC article saying that last year we were one of three compliant teams.



I hope that's cleared it up for you without you having to go through the tedium of reading all of the four posts before mine. (Before you take issue with that and say there were seven, three of them were yours, so I'm just counting other peoples' posts).

Try reading posts rather than responding to what you think might have been said. You do this a great deal. You regularly come into posts with an agenda and don't appear actually to read what other people write. You might want to calm down, read without an agenda and assume that other people have valid opinions that may differ from yours.

Vin