Safe Standing Protest - Weekend of Feb 13th

Sit down at home games. Stand up at away games. Tis Law of the footy fan.

 

The whole Clock End stand for every game at Highbury. We may sit down for a few seconds now and again during games, but it's generally a standing area!

 

Thats cause your Cockneys mate. Not your fault.

 

lol, this guy made safe standing bar type thing saw it on tv.

 

I sit down during halftime.

 

I go for a pint. You must be a barrel of laughs at the footy sunshine.

 

It's sad to see the suits hammer away at the standing / sitting thing. I suspect too many of them honestly believe the problem was as simple as standing.

 

Yeah but recently the stewards have been really trying to get us to sit. Bloody annoying. Plus there is a row of non-season ticket holders behind me. Which means every game I get the "Would it be possible for you to sit down please, as Ive paid £x to sit here" The usual retort of "Well bully for you, but Ive paid near a grand to be here for the whole season and very season, and so Im going to stand and if you want to see, you'd better stand to" usually shuts them up.

 

We have the same trouble. Good comeback as well sunshine.

 

But if people are paying to be in a seated area it isn't unreasonable to expect those in front to sit down so they can see, with all the season tickets they can't just move somewhere else, and they probably paid more to see the actual game (I'd hope a season ticket would represent a slight saving at least). Not everyone wants to stand up. People should have the choice, although unlike you I do actually have that available to me (thankfully top flight rugby never had that demand as we share a ground with a team that used to play in the top division). As someone who also prefers to stand, I'll go to the terrace, and at this level if you go to an away game some clubs force away fans to stand anyway (others have only seating).

At Halifax the pricing on the terraces was raised a few years ago up to the same level as the previously more expensive seating areas, seems about two thirds choose to stand (myself included).

The concert example seems a better comparison than top flight rugby clubs, I can't think of any (either code) that would get a crowd of anywhere near a top football club.

Bring back terracing. It's live TV covereage that needs to be stopped.

 

No. But we have as much right to stand. If there is a disabled person behind me, who cant stand. I'll sit down the entire match. But if there is an able bodied person behind me. I'm afraid he wont get to see the game, unless he stands. Fair do's imo.

 

You should have the right to have a standing area available. You don't. Not all able bodies people want to stand, some do prefer to sit, and they should be able to do that if they so wish.

 

Yeah. True. But i should also be able to have the right to stand if i wish.

 

Which is why separate areas are needed.

 

True. But if the clubs go back to terraces. They cant charge the same price. Football is big buisness now. Its all about the £££££'s.

 

They can if people will pay that.

 

True.

 

Squat thrusts work a treat steady.

 

My season ticket costs about £500. Which roughly equals about £20 - £25 a ticket. I would happily pay £35 a ticket. I think all true supporters would imho.

 

I just go to Dortmund in Germany and pay 10Euros a match to stand on the biggest end in Europe. The Sudtribune

 

Thats because German football is crap sunshine.