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Anfield Redevelopment; leaked news

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[quote author=peterhague link=topic=44621.msg1303280#msg1303280 date=1300725374]
yep, so pretty much as expected. the 'plan' for the kop sounds interesting, though, to say the least. not sure if it's feasible or how many more seats it could provide, but to a complete layman like me it sounds too ingenious for some idiot on the internet to come up with...
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If you go to the MEN the seats there are exceedingly steep. Maybe thats the plan. Trouble is, the stairs because of it are notoriously hard to negotiate. Especially when pissed.
 
I love steep-sided stadiums. That's what makes the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff so good - it's a real cauldron! 🙂
 
[quote author=Portly link=topic=44621.msg1303388#msg1303388 date=1300734146]
I love steep-sided stadiums. That's what makes the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff so good - it's a real cauldron! 🙂
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Haha!
 
[size=12pt]The sports minister, Hugh Robertson, has said the government will consider the possibility of reintroducing standing areas at top-level football matches, 21 years after Lord Justice Taylor recommended terracing be outlawed.

At the first ever meeting to discuss the issue with the Football Supporters' Federation (FSF), football authorities, police and the Football Licensing Authority, which took place on Monday, Robertson said he would examine the evidence for safe standing. In particular, he said he wanted to see whether modern terracing would be safe, technically able to be built into stadiums and capable of being policed, and whether there is demand from substantial numbers to stand.

But anxious not to raise immediate expectations, Robertson told the meeting frankly that because the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, in which 96 Liverpool supporters died, led to Taylor's recommendation that standing be outlawed, the stakes are extremely high to recommend a change. If he were to do so, and there was then a major accident or incident of disorder on a terrace, Robertson said: "The minister's head would be on a spike on Tower Bridge before he could draft a resignation letter."

The meeting was called by the Liberal Democrat sports spokesman, Don Foster, who has tabled a private member's bill calling for clubs to be permitted safe standing areas. "I am very pleased we brought all parties together for the first time to discuss the issue," he said. "Real fans are paying high ticket prices and losing out, and I am confident safe standing can be introduced which meets all the minister's concerns. We will be gathering the required evidence, and fans must now make their voices heard."

The FSF will launch an online petition calling for the introduction of safe standing areas at stadiums in England's top two divisions, where all-seating has been compulsory since 1994, as recommended by Taylor four years earlier.

All the authorities represented at the meeting stated their opposition to any reintroduction of standing areas, although they no longer state that this is predominantly an issue of fan safety, rather of crowd control. The Premier League, Football League and Football Association argued that all-seat stadiums had been crucial in improving the game's fortunes and image since Hillsborough, and there is no major demand for standing.

The FSF is calling for defined areas of grounds to be made available for safe standing areas, similar to those in Germany where closely spaced barriers make a crush close to impossible. The FSF points to a survey it conducted in which 90% of respondents said fans should have the choice of sitting or standing. The organisation hopes thousands will sign the online petition.

Robertson stressed he is wary of considering change, but would look at all evidence presented, and would want a consensus, including the police in particular, that standing would be safe.

Andy Holt, assistant chief constable of South Yorkshire police, representing the Association of Chief Police Officers at the meeting, said it is up to the FSF to demonstrate that standing areas could be policed effectively and would not risk increasing disorder at matches.

Malcolm Clarke, the FSF chairman, argued that such standing areas would enable fans to enjoy matches in a more traditional atmosphere. Clarke also pointed out that many supporters regularly stand at top-flight football in the all-seat stands, a practice the Football Licensing Authority considers a safety risk.

"Fans do believe they have lost something in the move to all-seating," Clarke said. "We will be doing further research to respond to the concerns of those who are not yet convinced."[/size]
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They said they were looking at what happened at Hillsborough again (both Labour and the Tories commited to it)... that was 23 months ago. What is happening?
 
They've found what was always there, namely evidence of official negligence which will reflect very badly on some important people, so they're keeping it under wraps.
 
And who's the police representative who's been asked to comment?

SYMM.

I swear you couldnt write this shit up.
 
Considering that we'll be looking to upgrade Anfield over the next few years by the looks of it, if it was allowed would anyone like to see a standing area?
 
In the future yes but for obvious reasons I don't believe we should be one of the first clubs to go down the terracing route.
 
Premier League is opposing it.

It's very unlikely to ever happen.
 
The premier league will never go for it because they would feel obliged perhaps to reduce the entrance price for a standing area, ironically i imagine many fans who remember what it was like to stand wouldnt mind paying the same ludicrous price and standing and having an atmosphere. IMO the match day experience is much diminished in all seater stadia.

Football was much much more fun.

It won't happen, it would be too good for the fans, and politically as LFC we can't take a lead.

Fuck it i would pay more for a standing kop season ticket than a seated one.
 
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