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I am totally in favour of safe standing at football games for those who want to, I am pointing out the reasons why you will only bang your head against a brick wall to get it reinstated in English football. It is probably a generation thing in government, the older M Ps will not go back on all seater, perhaps in ten years there may be a chance. But the top six teams with their stadiums, no chance. Arsenal take £1.25 million a home game, Spurs will do the same, and Chelsea are going to follow suit.
Quote from: selby on April 10, 2018, 09:25:34 pm I am totally in favour of safe standing at football games for those who want to, I am pointing out the reasons why you will only bang your head against a brick wall to get it reinstated in English football. It is probably a generation thing in government, the older M Ps will not go back on all seater, perhaps in ten years there may be a chance. But the top six teams with their stadiums, no chance. Arsenal take £1.25 million a home game, Spurs will do the same, and Chelsea are going to follow suit.So you can't actually tell me how what you said has anything to do with safe standing? not sure any of these points certainly in terms of the football have anything to do with it either.
I wouldn't worry too much about the petition either, there must have been dozens done over the years and all to no avail. I think we're well past the point of petitions and we've had numerous debates and private members bills at the HoP. No, the argument is quite clearly with Tracey Crouch and DCMS.
BRR,I'm not following your logic there to be fair. Are you saying that you would like to see more people in the same spaces or more leg room? Rail seats take up less space than a typical 'tip up' seat therefore there is automatically more room. The conversion factor, in most cases, would be 1:8 to 1. Therefore 1800 people can stand in an area that would normally seat 1000. Of course if the rail seats are locked in the down position it would still be 1000 people in the same area, therefore, logically, they would have more leg room not less.
Just giving the petition a bump, its just about to pass the 64,000 mark which is very good, but needs to get to 100,000 to be successful.https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/207040
Quote from: silent majority on April 18, 2018, 03:39:39 pmJust giving the petition a bump, its just about to pass the 64,000 mark which is very good, but needs to get to 100,000 to be successful.https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/207040Signed, but SM what changed between you saying last week “I wouldn't worry too much about the petition either, there must have been dozens done over the years and all to no avail. I think we're well past the point of petitions” and giving it a bump 2 days ago?
Well it's over 78,000 now so if it's given a further push over the weekend through social media, primarily, it'll get over the line soon enough.If a couple of clubs (established top two division clubs) supported it through social media, that'd have an impact as well, as it would if its kept in the spotlight and doesn't die off whilst the momentum for it is strong.If the government take a certain stance that won't change though, there's not a lot that can be done until they've been sent packing at the elections and the opportunity is there with a new govt.It'll happen like 3G pitches, it'll just take time.