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Safe Standing Ruled Out - Stairs - 13-05-2015
So no return to the halcyon days of standing on the terraces at The Hawthorns. See comments cut from the Express and Dingle.
Personally, given my fragile age, I don't really care. I like to be able to take a seat and watch the build up but then stand when the excitement builds. The youngsters never had it and so won't miss it either and so I think this is an argument that is slowly fading away into history and nostalgia.
Agree.....?
Express & Star article says:
Baggies head of facility operations & development Mark Miles ruled out standing areas when he appeared at the latest meeting of the ‘Albion Assembly.'
Fans quizzed Miles on the possibility of standing areas returning to the stadium, but he said: "It's illegal, it's not allowed in this country by Government.
“On the back of the post-Hillsborough report, all stadia (in the Premier League) have to be fully seated.
“There is a cost to put any safe or rail seating into the ground, but there is this number circulated through the Football Supporters Federation.
RE: Safe Standing Ruled Out - tidy - 13-05-2015
I think alot of supporters are getting confused with 'safe standing' and the old 'terraces'.
2 completely different animals.