All seater stadiums have killed football imo

We would have standing stadiums lad's if it wern't for them lot.

Originally Posted by SteKellyEFC

We would have standing stadiums lad's if it wern't for them lot.

the working class?

Bin dippers.

Just thinking about it now, Everton would of won the Champions League but there fans got every English team banned from all comps.

a second evertonian!

welcome YSB

Originally Posted by SteKellyEFC

Bin dippers.

Just thinking about it now, Everton would of won the Champions League but there fans got every English team banned from all comps.

Originally Posted by silv

a second evertonian!

welcome YSB

you'll be receiving a PM for that

Originally Posted by Ginners

this.

Originally Posted by Cream

do you even go to games?

Probably "in marketing"

Originally Posted by Denis Irwell

Probably "in marketing"

he wishes he had a job

Just seen this Guardian article from the start of the 2001-02 season about us being banned from away games. Obviously this got overturned but it's amazing that this was even a possibility
English footballing authorities just want us to sit down and shut up :shakehead:

Fans of top football teams such as Manchester United and Liverpool will be banned from receiving tickets for away games this season to prevent a potential disaster caused by supporters standing up in all-seater stadia.
Parts of grounds in which thousands of fans ignore pleas from stewards to sit down will also be shut, in a crackdown on the 'highly dangerous' growing practice of mass standing in areas designed for seated fans.

Safety officials and Premiership clubs bodies say they have decided to take tough action to stop fans being killed or injured in the dangerous conditions caused by large groups of spectators insisting on standing up.

Fans' groups have reacted with fury to the plans and predicted that they will not stop supporters from continuing to stand, despite its being illegal. A significant minority of fans back the introduction of small terraced areas, which operate without problems at many clubs in Germany. The Government has rejected this.

The measures have been drawn up by the Football Licensing Authority, the statutory safety watchdog set up in the wake of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster which killed 96 fans and led to all top football grounds becoming all-seater. The Premier League, Football Association, police chiefs, local authority safety officers and the Government have approved the plans.

The FLA admits the imminent offensive against standing is 'draconian'. Its chief executive John De Quidt told The Observer: 'It would be preferable if persuasion and education stopped this practice rather than having to take a big stick. We could be cutting capacities. If you cut the capacity at somewhere like Old Trafford by 5,000, that's 5,000 people that can't get in and people will be unhappy.'

A partial or even blanket ban on visiting fans will also be used 'as a coercive measure' if supporters do not respond to warnings to keep seated, De Quidt confirmed. Clubs told to limit or ban opposing fans by their local council would sell those seats to home fans to avoid suffering huge losses as a result of the FLA's initiative.

De Quidt continued: 'There have already been a couple of cases of people falling over the front barrier of the upper tier of a stand and landing on someone else below because of crowd movements caused by mass standing. The people underneath were fairly unpleasantly injured.'

Fans of the Premier League champions, Manchester United, are the worst offenders. Thousands of them regularly ignore warnings to stay seated and they will be the first to be hit by the new approach.

Trafford council, which monitors safety at Old Trafford, warned last spring that it would close a section of the ground as a safety measure. Misbehaviour by United fans led to Premier League club Middlesbrough limiting tickets given to visiting United fans last season.

The FLA will unveil a 20-page action plan on Friday at a meeting with fans' groups, which have reacted furiously to the crackdown. Malcolm Clarke of the Football Supporters Association said: 'Clubs should provide the small, well-controlled safe standing areas which a significant minority of fans wants, and not threaten us.'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2001/au...er?INTCMP=SRCH

Originally Posted by Cream

'would love an all seater la'

'you calling me a £#%&!ing midget?'

Originally Posted by wiganste

red @rse starts a shit, state the bleeding obvious thread and it's turned into a bantzathon.

g2c really

Agreed.

reem on fire.

Originally Posted by Ginners

do you even go to games?

Do I £#%&!.

But used to go regularly, before you were born.

Originally Posted by atticusgrinch

Agreed.

reem on fire.

In b4 ginners with a 'I wish he £#%&!ing was'.