Used to cram about 27500 in when I spent my youth wrapped around a barrier every time we scored! Loved every minute of it though. Bring it back with more barriers.
They have safe standing in various European countries, especially Germany where it leads to very cheap tickets and fantastic atmosphere. It was a British decision to go all seater, nothing to do with Europe.
And following Hillsborough it was the right decision. Let us not turn the clock back now.
When you buy a ticket for a seated area you buy a seat for the game. It is your seat. If someone is sitting in your seat you will ask them to move. The capacity is strictly controlled and evenly distributed. With terracing it is not. Movement is not restricted and allows a small minority to wreak havoc and cause danger. You can write all the essays you want, but as someone who has seen hundreds of games from the terrace you will not persuade me that it is safer or more comfortable than seating.
Your right it is incomparable to old style terracing which the romantics are alluding to; in fact it sounds like a spot without a seat. Thanks all the same but I will stay seated and stand up at half time to stretch the legs.
