Albion Rob
New member
Surely it should be about choice - if terraces were reintroduced, I would pay to stand what I do now for a seat. That way it isn't as if people are being priced out of a seat but being given the chance to stand on a terrace if they wish or sit in a seat should they desire.
I firmly believe there is a strong argument for it. Football grounds are (generally) not the crumbling death traps they were in the 1980s - and didn't the Bradford fire take place in a seated stand? - but are generally shiny complexes with excellent escape routes and CCTV potentially watching you as soon as you get into the vicinity of the ground.
some people clearly have some great memories of terracing while others may have grown out of it and decided it is too dicy to go back.
I stood in the North Stand for about eight years until it was pulled down and do sometimes imagine what it would have been like if Danny Cullip's header against Chesterfield went in in front of the North Stand or if the demolition of Wolves a few years ago had been there.
If people are happy to stand in such conditions then surely by parting with their money it is tacit acceptance that the places do have a higher danger risk than seats. Nobody expects to go to a football match and not return home and whenever that happens, lessons must be learnt but we don't close the railways after accidents, do we? A few cuts and bruises? No worse than what can potentially happen on a Saturday night in any town or village anywhere in the country.
I firmly believe there is a strong argument for it. Football grounds are (generally) not the crumbling death traps they were in the 1980s - and didn't the Bradford fire take place in a seated stand? - but are generally shiny complexes with excellent escape routes and CCTV potentially watching you as soon as you get into the vicinity of the ground.
some people clearly have some great memories of terracing while others may have grown out of it and decided it is too dicy to go back.
I stood in the North Stand for about eight years until it was pulled down and do sometimes imagine what it would have been like if Danny Cullip's header against Chesterfield went in in front of the North Stand or if the demolition of Wolves a few years ago had been there.
If people are happy to stand in such conditions then surely by parting with their money it is tacit acceptance that the places do have a higher danger risk than seats. Nobody expects to go to a football match and not return home and whenever that happens, lessons must be learnt but we don't close the railways after accidents, do we? A few cuts and bruises? No worse than what can potentially happen on a Saturday night in any town or village anywhere in the country.
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