noire
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The reason this is an issue at Bramall Lane and not all the other grounds mentioned is very simple. The entry and exit to the seating areas of the stand is at the very back it. Unlike any other stand in the ground which have vomitories (that is the correct word I’m sure) in the middle of the seating area that give access to the concourse.
If people stand with their mates and spill over and block the gangway at the back of the South Stand, just to use it as an example, they aren’t restricting access to an emergency exit. On the Kop they are. It isn’t really a sitting/standing issue.
Until the Kop is flattened and rebuilt (and there isn’t any reasonable argument against this really, it’s a temporary solution to the Taylor Report we have now lived with for 30 years) this will continue to be an issue.
We can blame SCC all we want, we can blame people who congregate at the back of the stand too. Neither are blameless. But neither are the club who continue to sell tickets in a stand that is clearly not fit for purpose. And have no intention of ever sorting it out.
If people stand with their mates and spill over and block the gangway at the back of the South Stand, just to use it as an example, they aren’t restricting access to an emergency exit. On the Kop they are. It isn’t really a sitting/standing issue.
Until the Kop is flattened and rebuilt (and there isn’t any reasonable argument against this really, it’s a temporary solution to the Taylor Report we have now lived with for 30 years) this will continue to be an issue.
We can blame SCC all we want, we can blame people who congregate at the back of the stand too. Neither are blameless. But neither are the club who continue to sell tickets in a stand that is clearly not fit for purpose. And have no intention of ever sorting it out.