According to a new survey published at the Liberty Stadium in Swansea today, the overwhelming majority of football fans – 96 per cent – support safe standing.
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Clear filterAccording to a new survey published at the Liberty Stadium in Swansea today, the overwhelming majority of football fans – 96 per cent – support safe standing.
Crystal Palace co-owners Steve Parish and Steve Browett have spoken of their support for safe standing and say the club are “looking at the whole legal position of whether we’ve got to make people sit”.
Crystal Palace co-owners Steve Parish and Steve Browett have spoken of their support for safe standing and say the club are “looking at the whole legal position of whether we’ve got to make people sit”.
A cross-party group of Welsh Assembly members have penned an open letter to Helen Grant MP, Minister for Sport, Tourism and Equalities, calling for a pilot of safe standing.
(Above – safe standing rail seats in Klagenfurt, Austria)
(Above – the Safe Standing Roadshow in the Welsh Assembly, overlooking Cardiff Bay)
Fans of Chelsea and Sunderland will have the chance to see first hand what “rail seats” are all about when the Safe Standing Roadshow visits west London later this month – if you’re going to the game, pay the Roadshow a visit.
Norwich City supporters are the latest to give the thumbs up to safe standing following a survey by fans’ group Barclay End Projekt. 89% of 853 respondents gave their backing to a safe standing trial at a top-flight English ground.
Reading FC are the latest club to back the Football Supporters’ Federation’s Safe Standing Campaign. The Royals announced their support as they revealed they had also responded positively to the Football League’s consultation.
Yesterday Bristol City became the first club in the UK to install safe standing ‘rail seats’ in their ground. FSF Safe Standing Co-ordinator Peter Daykin was there and he explains why it was such an important day. The Common Sense Revolution starts here…
Bristol City have become the first club in the UK to install safe standing rail seats into their stadium. This comes hot-on-the-heels of the Football League’s announcement last week that it would lobby the Government for a change in the rules to permit safe standing areas for football matches.
(Above – first rail seats installed at Bristol City, more pics here & a time-lapse vid here.)
The Football League have agreed to lobby the Government for safe standing areas, reports The Daily Telegraph. It makes happy reading for supporters and comes hot on the heels of their recent safe standing consultation.
It’s a big week for safe standing as the Football League’s consultation of its 72 member clubs is coming to an end on Friday 24th January. If you’re a fan of a Championship, League One, or League Two club, now’s the time to tell them that you back safe standing.
It’s an important moment for safe standing as the Football League consults members on the issue. Tony Barrett is Merseyside Correspondent for The Times and he argues that, while sensitivities around Hillsborough must be respected, the time is right for “calm consideration” of safe standing…
The Football League are in the middle of a Safe Standing Consultation with their 72 member clubs – that means there has never been a better time for fans to lobby their clubs directly to say “yes” to safe standing.
Portsmouth have given a resounding ‘Yes’ to the Football League in response to a recent consultation paper sent to all 72 clubs about safe standing.
In an open letter to the club Chelsea Supporters’ Trust (CST) outline their concerns at the club’s threat to ban fans for standing. Not all clubs share Chelsea’s view and the likes of Cardiff City manage persistent standing in a far more progressive way. FSF affiliated fans’ group CST explain more…
Image – rail seats in Hanover; horizontal bars prevent progressive crowd collapse and seats can be flipped down for all-seater European competition. (©Stadionwelt.de)
Fans at both Arsenal and Aston Villa have given their overwhelming backing to safe standing in two separate fan-led surveys. 97.5% of Villa fans backed safe standing while 91.5% of respondents to Arsenal’s Black Scarf Movement survey said they’d like a safe standing trial at the Emirates.
