'As A City Fan', Would You Like To See Safe Standing Introduced At The Etihad?

Eccles Blue said:
@Mad Eyed Screamer, I don't think it is so much that they would be in court, let's face it so many people stand that the courts would be over run and there would be no time to prosecute 'real' criminals.
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But don't you think if they took a few people to court it would ''set an example'' make the rest of us ''think a bit about it''? But they haven't took one person to court, as I say, standing fans are not breaking the law which is why the police refuse to deal with it because of that very reason.
Now if fans get a little rowdy with stewards and abusive / aggressive etc when stewards are trying to get fans to sit down, then the police are called in. Fans dealt with by the dibble then can be charged with threatening behaviour, being drunk or whatever - but they wont be charged with standing up!
 
Corky said:
At OT the first section is united fans only, then two levels of mixed accessible seats then the away fans on the 4th level in effect - FSF not a clue. It is hard to claim seated accommodation is where fans are freely allowed to stand all game.
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I'm not sure what this bit about pitch side view seating has to do with this thread, you lost me.
 
@Mad Eyed Screamer mmmm, I hadn't thought of it like that.

I'm glad they don't obviously because as long as everyone in the particular area is in agreement then stand. I just don't like it when people won't listen reasonably to other people's point of view. Not you obviously but sometimes folks get carried away & don't realise. :-)
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
Lots of grounds - pre all seated stadiums Liverpool, Coventry, West Ham, Spurs, Arsenal, Forest, Palace, Birmingham, Watford (I think), Everton you were behind the goal but surrounded by both sides of side paddocks as you were at the swamp on one side
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You're citing Highfield Road as a pre all-seater stadium?....
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
Safe standing areas are seated areas. There are seats there
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In Italy there are seats in the ends (the places behind the goals, that we call curves), because they have to be by the law, but everybody stands.
Joe Hart recently said that the big differences he noticed between english and italian stadiums are that italian stadiums are quite never sold out (on the contrary the english ones are alway full), but the atmosphere here is, as he said, "incredible".
The point - in my opinion- is not if areas are seated or not seated, but if people must respect their assigned places. Here, in the ends (the curves) is tolerated people don't respect the assigned places, you can stay wherever you want. The consequence is that people who want to sing more will stay in the central part of the end and the singing will be more powerful also because directed by the ultras firms. People who want to sit will stay in the side places. The other point is the price. Here the season tickets in the ends cost 200 euros, it means that a game will cost an average of 10,52 euros. A season ticket for a young person 16 years old and under costs 130 euros, an average of 6,84 euros per game. If you have prices that young people can afford, you will have a better atmosphere, because they will sing a lot.
When I watch PL on tv the sensation is that it's more a theatre than a stadium and I can feel a bit of frustration in the audience, as if people are forced to rules that they don't like. Anyway introducing standing areas would be a first step to have the epic english audience that we all remember back.
 
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