Crouchinho said:
Why exactly is standing unsafe? You'd think it would take longer with seating getting everyone out in an emergency. I remember some bird having as asthma attack and it wasn't easy getting her across the seats.
Letting too many in and being caged was the problem.
Away fans stand, season ticket holders stand, something is wrong
It isn't unsafe and it took the FSF seven years to get the government / FLA to finally admit that. The term they use now is seating is
safer than standing but again they have failed to back this up with any evidence.
The FSF went through all the statisitcs given from clubs over injuries treated inside grounds. The highest number of first aid incidents treated was scoldings from hot drinks - yet no one is calling for hot drinks to be banned!
The FLA stated that a good number of fans being treated were simply ''ill'' and had gone to the game for treatment in the ground as their local doctors surgury is not open on a Saturday / Sunday afternoon (honestly!)
None of the incidents reported were attributed to standing, but because more incidents took place (per person / ratio etc) in grounds that had standing, it could
''therefore be presumed'' that this was a contributing factor that seated grounds are safer.
Yet (again) once asked, the FLA admitted that incidents of injuries inside grounds that still had standing were not required to state which part of the ground the incident took place.
Lies, dam lies and statistics.
If anyone is interested in the full story of the campaign and the political bollocks involved, it's covered in this great book that was published last summer, written by West Ham fan by Peter Caton who organised the 'Stand Up Sit Down' campaign.
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stand-Up-Sit-Down-Football/dp/1780881770/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1368619944&sr=1-1&keywords=peter+caton" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stand-Up-Sit-Do ... eter+caton</a>
