mike_field
Vital Football Legend
Given the authorities don't really like football fans (as epitomised by standing/drinking in other sports) the option is easy.
Threaten to remove the safety certificate to make a point in a given stand, and simply agree only season ticket holders or pre-bought tickets clearly trackable to an individual fan are sold (ie no match day cash).
Insist on a doubling of security by whatever mean necessary and clamp down on standing with ejections. Each fan ejected is given a final warning....
Repeat one month later and, in order to comply with the spirit and the letter of the rules, clubs are forced to give out 12 month bans to any fan who gets ejected for a second time.
And so on...
The authorities take control and won't care they are hated for it, clubs can lean directly on the authorities for being the bastards here and given the press it would create, fans know where the new line is almost overnight.
Pretty simple really. Then once that test is done, match day tickets become a thing of the past and they can introduce new terms and conditions requiring fans to prove identity/trackability to ensure future compliance.
Threaten to remove the safety certificate to make a point in a given stand, and simply agree only season ticket holders or pre-bought tickets clearly trackable to an individual fan are sold (ie no match day cash).
Insist on a doubling of security by whatever mean necessary and clamp down on standing with ejections. Each fan ejected is given a final warning....
Repeat one month later and, in order to comply with the spirit and the letter of the rules, clubs are forced to give out 12 month bans to any fan who gets ejected for a second time.
And so on...
The authorities take control and won't care they are hated for it, clubs can lean directly on the authorities for being the bastards here and given the press it would create, fans know where the new line is almost overnight.
Pretty simple really. Then once that test is done, match day tickets become a thing of the past and they can introduce new terms and conditions requiring fans to prove identity/trackability to ensure future compliance.