Standing at Luton Last Night

[Bromley shrimp]

Yet again at Luton we all stood all the time as is usually the norm at Brighton away games, but why?

Simply because we prefer to for a whole myriad of collective and individual reasons. The Scarmen report following Hillsboro' is about 15 years old now. Things have moved on.

We have cctv, improved segregation, relatively higher addmission prices, better stewarding, computerised ticket allocation systems, better policing and intelligence, and a different mix of people attending to that in the late 80's.

The space we had to stand in in between the seats at Luton seemed smaller than usual. I noticed this when attempting, in time honoured tradition, to stamp my feet to keep warm on the terrace. The seats served merely as obstacles and an inconvenience.

Surely it's about time that some authoratitive body could be implemented to re-visit the idea of bringing back a limited amount of terracing at certain grounds, if only for a trial period initially, in the interests of the paying customer.

 

[Happy Seagull]

Did you try sitting in those seats? Even if a Policeman had ordered me to, i couldn't have done so.

 

[surrey jim]

Did you try sitting in those seats? Even if a Policeman had ordered me to, i couldn't have done so.

I would have got DVT sitting all match. you get more leg room on EasyJet than there (me being a sad git i checked!)

 

[trueblue]

Too cold to sit.

 

[pasty]

There really should by now be an area of grounds where standing is acceptable. It causes so many problems now, not least of which it will always upset some people who either can't or don't want to stand.

I have two gentlemen sit behind me at Withdean who are in, shall we say their advanced years, and it makes things very awkward when people stand in front of me, so I stand, and they then can't see. Subsequently, if I ask those in front of me to sit down, I get abused for being a boring git and not getting behind the team etc, when all I'm doing is being considerate to those behind me, who are less able to stand.

I personally do not have a problem with people standing, but surely even something as simple as allowing the back 10 rows or so to stand would go a long way to alleviating the problem.

 

[Scotty Mac]

the legroom was shocking

 

[Bozza]

Did you try sitting in those seats? Even if a Policeman had ordered me to, i couldn't have done so.

Beat me to it.

I tried to sit down at halftime, and gave up about 3 minutes later. If that stand was fully populated, it would be impossible for more than half the people to sit down.

 

[e77]

I am six feet three so literally couldn't sit down. I thought Leeds was bad but that took the biscuit.

 

[Happy Seagull]

Even worse than the dell used to be.

 

[Gritt23]

Majority of people prefer the atmosphere when standing, so they stand.

One day the authorities will realise that it's SAFER to stand on a terrace than have people standing among the seats.

 

[Giraffe]

It was a typical, seats on old terrace scenario. Which is always awful. Complete f***ing dive, the whole place, not that I'm bitter or anything.

 

[Brighton till i die]

please bring back terracing - just one stand split in 2 for away and home fans - then the rest of the families etc can go and sit down and eat sarnies while the "singers and swayers" can have a good olf fashioned laaaarf!!

 

[ShorehamGull]

I was quite happy standing up, this way I could keep warm and get more involved in the atmosphere.

 

[John Boy]

Plenty of legroom….

 

[ShorehamGull]

Plenty of legroom….

I'm not a big guy but when I looked at the seats last night I thought even I would struggle to sit in those seats, prehaps even break one if I sat down.

 

[Robot Chicken]

Poor old Barnet Seagull!!!

 

[Basil Fawlty]

The leg room was bloody ridicolous.

 

[Schrödinger's Toad]

'Tis a bit silly when anyone over six foot is facing an impossible task sitting down. You can just about squat sideways, but this would be impossible if everyone was sitting. I fail to see how that was safer than proper terracing - there have been numerous grounds I've been to where half the people have fallen over and between the seats when we've scored.