Standing at football

[wishiwaszola 0]

I am posting this with the OK from Jim.

A message from the Football Supporters Federation.

The new coalition government has pledged to scrap unnecessary and “nannying” laws. We believe that the ban on standing at football grounds in the top two divisions is just this. In England and Wales, you can stand in rugby grounds, at Speedway events, at Horse racing events, even lower league football grounds. We don’t believe the top football clubs should be singled out and treated differently.

If you agree you can now say so on the Governments new “Your Freedom” website, by visiting

http://yourfreedom.hmg.gov.uk/cutting-business-and-third-sector-reg...

Please support our motion and (especially important) add some brief comments. You need to register to do so, but it takes literally two minutes and would help our campaign massively.

Bear in mind that for the first time we have a party in government (the Lib Dems) who support Safe Standing as official party policy, so the Your Freedom website gives us a great opportunity to press our case. If our motion becomes one of the most popular, then this greatly helps our aim to turn that support into government policy. We need YOUR support for this to happen.

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The FSF is an organisation run by fans for fans. We advise and represent supporters on a range of issues. You can find out more about us at: http://www.fsf.org.uk/about-the-fsf.php) and hopefully you will also decide to join us, completely free of charge, at http://www.fsf.org.uk/join.php)

If you have any questions about this or anything to do with the Football Supporters Federation Safe Standing campaign please get in touch with [email protected] or [email protected] – the campaign co-ordinators.

Read more: http://www.susd.vitalfootball.co.uk/forum/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=4391&posts=12#ixzz0y1TBRTdI

[CFCwehatetottenham 2]

beat you to it

[Aria 19]

So how can one understand this, as introducing stands without seats in a stadium or just allowing standing in the normal stands despite having seats below you?

[middleoftheshed 388]

So how can one understand this, as introducing stands without seats in a stadium or just allowing standing in the normal stands despite having seats below you?

In Germany they have this

The seats are for UEFA competitions which don't allow standing. So if we were to get that over here everyone would still have a ticket just like now with an assigned area/seat to stand and there would be no problems.

[Aria 19]

Yeah I know in Germany it's like Dortmund have an 80'000 capacity during Bundesliga matches but "only" 65'000 during UEFA matches cause they transform the standing areas into seat areas.

So the stadiums in England will stay as they are right know just with the restriction of standing being removed?

[Laylabelle 9,359]

Yeh thats what would work best.Opportunity for those who want to sit to still be able to..families with small children and short people haha.But that way the standing areas,create an atompshere that in theory would spread all the way round