If you go on say the back of the Kop at the Lane then go to most away games it's actually possible to go through a whole season without your arse ever having touched a seat.
Therefore all that the post 1991 legislation has done is needlessly annoy people. Because at the heart of it, it was never about safety, it was about control.
Hillsborough was a Godsend to the establishment , who saw their golden chance to shift football spectating away from its natural home amongst the working-class , to a new and lucrative , all-seater , middle-class , americanised experience.
In fact the (manual) working class had all - but disappeared - textiles ? mines ? cutlery ? steel ? cars ? ships ? engineering ? assembly-lines ?
Italia '90 had sucked in a load of wimmen and the money-men saw the chance to be in on the ground floor of "New Football" , so my scope to be raucous once a week began to crumble under the Taylor sanitisation/control programme and the corporate greed of the FA Premier League.
No longer could I decide on the morning of the game whether I was going to roll-up at 2.55pm and wriggle my way to the centre of the Kop just above the big trench , or at some away terrace - oh no , I had to buy a fuckin ticket in advance in order to fail to get where I wanted to be.
And every change since Hillsborough has detracted from my enjoyment of football. Only my undying loyalty to the Blades keeps me going.
At least I am fortunate that I had 22 years of freedom & fun before they made it into somewhere I don't really feel at home.
Except when I go for a piss in the old bogs at the back of the kop (Cherry Street side near the turnstiles) , where , apart from the new-fangled roof they fitted , I can be transported back to the 60s.
If they ever knock those old bogs down , I might just have to concede defeat and admit that there's no magic left.
But I hope they don't.
Then I can go straight from standing at the back (XX90) to my wheelchair , in which I can really give the lino a piece of my mind.
