Should Manchester City Consider Safe Standing?

Tudor

Tudor

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It was 1989 - I was living in Germany and vividly remember what I was doing when the horrible news filtered down onto the BFBS TV airwaves. The Hillsborough disaster. A moment in time forever etched in my memory.

Post-Hillsborough came the Taylor Report, followed by an act of Parliament which made it law that the top English football divisions had to remove terracing in place of all-seater stadiums.

Technology has come on leaps and bounds over the last 30 years, and now, some consider its time the Government re-visited this topic and liaised with clubs who want to reintroduce safe standing within some regions of their stadia.

There are pros and cons about this delicate subject, but one person, Jon Darch is spearheading the campaign to bring back the terraces.

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Yes, without a doubt.

I appreciate some may regard this as a controversial opinion but here goes.

The fact that people were standing didn't cause the Hillsborough disaster, inept policing did.

The tragic events of that day shouldn't have any impact on whether people are allowed stand at games today.
 
The current government, in fact, any government won't give the green light for terracing just in case we get another critical incident at a football stadium. Just think if it went 'Pete Tong'? Heads in various government departments would roll and careers would end overnight.

As much as I would like to see it being introduced I simply can't see it happening in my life time.
 
The rule was changed to all-seating as a political ploy to deflect blame from the police. It would be interesting to know how many people have died as a direct result of standing.

Also, surely we are all adults and able to make a decision for ourselves as to whether or not we want to 'risk our lives' in an all-standing section?
 
Away fans stand all the time at English football grounds, stewards turn a blind eye as trying to enforce sitting will just antagonize and likely lead to disturbances. In all my years going to watch football in England since the cages came down I've never seen any bother with away fans standing.

Take the South Stand at the Etihad too, stewards turn a blind eye to standing there too, never known it to be unsafe and the atmosphere is 10 times better than anywhere else in the ground.
 
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Bluedub said:
Away fans stand all the time at English football grounds, stewards turn a blind eye as trying to enforce sitting will just antagonize and likely lead to disturbances. In all my years going to watch football in England since the cages came down I've never seen any bother with away fans standing.

Take the South Stand at the Etihad too, stewards turn a blind eye to standing there too, never known it to be unsafe and the atmosphere is 10 times better than anywhere else in the ground.
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I agree, there would be a better atmosphere around the ground if they brought in safe standing
 
I think it's worth a go.
The majority of grounds in rugby league have standing areas - they are fine, but, as always, possible problems only happen, it seems to me, due to the human element.
This season, for example, at Salford - I suspect too many tickets were sold for the terrace occupied by Wigan fans.
There were no problems as such, but it was noticeable there was little room to spare/move as the game wore on, and more and more fans turned up.
 
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