its seating with the allowance for you to stand, perfect especially in a full area, certain amount of tickets means controlled capacity, the seats make an area yours it doesn't allow for crowding, and te seats wil all be in use at halftime probably as well. I'd like to have a gander at that set-up in action
I hold the same view, I can't go to the match and sit myself, so I very rarely go any more, having giving up my season ticket when Souness was manager. The current Kop is a pitiful shadow of what it use to be. Those magic European nights are now a thing of history. The singing is now totally ****, and about half as loud as it use to be. And as the two posts above me claim and I confirm, the Kop was perfect, a thick flat barrier every 8 steps and all the gaps were staggered, so at most you had 16 people pushing against you. But alas most other grounds in this country were abysmal in comparison. When you think of Bradford's main stand burning down, and the horror that was Hillsborough, you just couldn't compare these to the Splendour that was the Kop. But alas, you can't make worthwhile rules that are grey and washy, they never work, so because other clubs didn't give a rats ass about the safety of their supporters, we had to sacrifice the greatest stand in world football. One thing that gets me, we talk about Justice for the 96, and it seems to centre on the South Yorkshire Police, Why don't the make Sheffield Wednesday's owners accountable for running a death trap of a ground, or the FA for picking the dump as a suitable FA semi-final venue? I also have a contentious point of view about this subject, which I will share and let you slag me off if you see fit. I really despise how the media will go to family members for quotes when this subject is raised. These people, God bless them, are not football supporters unlike their lost loved ones, and don't understand. If I had dies at Leppings Lane, and my family members kept coming out and used me as an emotional leverage to stop standing at football matches, I would be spinning in my grave. I could have sat in the main stand or watched 80 minutes of a match sat in the Kemlyn stand, but no, I stood on the Kop, right bang in the middle of the two red roof supports and right in the middle of one of those gaps between barriers, so I got as knocked about as much as it was possible to do. Unless you've done that, you just don't know how primal that is. A goal goes in, you are jumping up and down, you fly down 4 steps, you are hugging complete stranger. You are a tribe member, you are not an individual, you are part of the world famous Kop. Cold winter afternoons, if the match had been so good that we were so hot and steaming it raised as a cloud over the whole stand. But I digress. The fact is if I had died on Leppings Lane, I would be horrified if my family used my death to stop other from enjoying that unique social gathering that I had enjoyed. Those poor 96 people were on Leppings Lane because most of them wanted to be stood behind a goal, singing their team on. And while I cannot speak for any one of them, I would like to think that a fair few of those fallen friends would be devastated that the Kop is no more. And I really wish their families stopped using phrases like "He will be turning in his grave" The 96 went to stand that day, why would they have done that if they hated it? Stop using them to batter anyone who desires to stand and sing for their team. On the other hand, these German stands are rubbish, you may as well stand in your seat, you are as equally separated from your fellow man and unable to interact and flow as a single entity as you are now. These people miss the point, it's not just standing, yes you need to stand to sing, but it was more than that, and these sterile German seats will not restore the Kop to any former glory. We can't go back. It is a crying shame, and a part of me has died, but for the greater good of fans of clubs who just never cared about them, we lost the Kop, but as long as no-one else dies, I am happy with that.