04 Dec 2020 17:45:37
Ive only been getting to 3 or 4 games a season at OT for the past few years.
What do regular match goers think of the approval for trial of 1500 standing spaces.
I think its great does anybody know where abouts they will be in the stadium.

1.) 04 Dec 2020
04 Dec 2020 18:33:54
I'm not interested personally I prefer it when the grounds full and I can see the away fans opposite the Stretford end. For me it won't be the same.

2.) 04 Dec 2020
04 Dec 2020 18:38:52
It's absolutely fantastic news Ken. It's a totally different experience to being seated IMO.

3.) 04 Dec 2020
04 Dec 2020 19:02:32
It's a good start. I much prefer standing. Let's hope the trials go well. Done properly there is no reason it can't be safe.

4.) 04 Dec 2020
04 Dec 2020 22:12:44
At Scunny they have a standing stand. It's loads better.

{Ed007's Note - I'm old school and remember when sitting at football was for the rich and celebrity fans and the safe standing at Celtic Park made a Hell of a difference to the overall atmosphere.}

5.) 04 Dec 2020
04 Dec 2020 22:26:55
As someone who stood on the Stretford End for many years, it is so real, so close to the real aspect of the game. Standing, leaning forward, feeling close to the game is what it is about. I so wish the young could experience that moment when a goal was scored, the surge forward as a mass together, you felt one with the people around you, if you were lucky you were near a barrier, to measure where you were. That surge was the most amazing moment, you had no idea where you would end up in he crowd. Trust me you could end up yards from where you started. There was nothing like the bond when standing.

{Ed007's Note - You can't surge with safe standing, there's barriers and seats that fold up so there's no forward/backward movement. I use crutches to get about and felt 100% safe in the Celtic standing section, it's changed days mate and for the better but it's still better than sitting with fans that tut at you for shouting lol.}

6.) 05 Dec 2020
05 Dec 2020 01:55:15
Not a regular match goer anymore (I am one for New England revolution now! ) but If I still lived in Manchester, I would have tried to be one of those 1500 standing. I think it’s a fantastic step ahead. It’s not the same as earlier of course but to see your team live is still special. Maybe it’s more to me as I can’t do it now.

7.) 05 Dec 2020
05 Dec 2020 08:46:10
New generation of fans. More interested in ranting and watching fan channels/ reactions on YouTube.

I'm a really big fan of safe standing. Personally this is how football should be. Going with your mates after a long week, having a few pints and chanting and singing along while standing.

If I want to sit and "be not allowed" to shout and encourage. I rather do it from the comfort of my own chair.

But again it's a generation thing. This is why football is a business more than a sport these days. Personally I've become less interested in the sport overall, we have forgot that without the passion of the fans, their no point bothering.

Germany have it spot on, why can't we.

8.) 05 Dec 2020
05 Dec 2020 09:34:02
Loved standing at games, singing, jumping up and down - until I went to Coventry v Leeds at Hillsborough 1987 for FA Cup semi final, in the Coventry City end - never been so frightened, people shoes coming off, , people getting trampled, being carried 15 -20 ft away from your mates by the surge - saw an old school mate and his opening words were "help us lift this old guy to the back he is getting crushed, its bad down there " this was 12 months before "Hillsborough" and tainted my view of standing for evermore . I understand this is for a limited amount of people with safety barriers which I know is completely different.

9.) 05 Dec 2020
05 Dec 2020 10:55:54
Yes, rail seats are different and there would not be any crushing surges. That cannot be allowed now after the terrible Hillsborough tragedy. That was awful and general crowd control was haphazard back then. Hillsborough was a tragedy that could easily have happened earlier. I was there in that end with United two months before the tragedy and the crush was unlike anything I experienced before or after that. We can never go back to that, but I do see the rail standing seats as a good way forward. Personally I would move all the corporate seats out of the Stretford End and put Rail standing in, make it nearer what it used to be.