safe standing again

strange how some evaluate this ongoing situation..

uring a recent video interview former hooligan turned author & film maker Cass Pennant asked the joint Chairman a??What is your personal views to the call for safe standing, fan areas for the supporters for the new stadiuma??

David Gold replied:

.bq a??Good Question Cass, I am a great supporter of safe standing, it is interesting that for many years we have had unsafe standing, we do have that, I dona??t think there is a ground in the country that are all seater stadium that dona??t have their fans in some area of the ground standing. Now that standing is both unsafe and unsocial. In other words unsocial from the point that if you were to bring a child to that match and that child is suddenly confronted with rows and rows of people in front of him, then he or she is not going to be able to see the match, So I think it is time to revisit the issue of standing and of course when all the problems of the eighties that we had where the t