From the view of the fans who attend the games at the Emirates nearly every week, we all find one thing in common. The lack of atmosphere. I am bringing this petition to the heads of Arsenal Football Club to address them that Safe Standing is the way forward, for the safety and security of the fans, but also the atmosphere. Atmosphere plays a big role in pushing the players and acting as the 12th Man, so let’s make this a movement towards Safe Standing at the Emirates!
I believe there’s safe standing at Shrewsbury. And Celtic have recently developed a section as well. I think we may see some change on this slowly but surely. Maybe not in the Premier League in the next few years, but if other clubs follow suit lower down, it may happen eventually at some stage.
Yeah I mean in the epl… Seems like the powers that be don’t like it, wonder if they are worried about another calamity happening they may feel there is no such thing as ‘safe standing’
I think things have moved on and improved an awful lot in 30 years since the Hillsborough disaster. When you think about what the fan experience looked like in the 80s, it’s definately a different world today. It’s not like it’s going to be the whole ground, and you have officials and proper protocols in place now to make sure there’s some order. At least you’d like to hope so anyways.
I wonder how many fans on here would like to see it. I’m quite nonplussed about it, but if it happens then I guess it’ll be good for fans to get an extra choice.
Yes Tottenham’s stadium has an area that can be converted into safe standing, but they can’t use it unless it’s legalised. It’s just future proofing on their part.
I agree with reintroducing standing but the idea that having an area of standing that would probably be no more than 6,000 people would automatically lead to a better atmosphere is pretty much a nonsense. We already have decent portions around section 5/6 who stand the whole game anyway and that makes little difference.
isn’t the lack of atmosphere down to that we have like 45k/60k season tickets and they don’t really always show up or are the singing type. I have no clue but that was always my guess lol
However, block 5 and 6 make up 2000 or so people, if we have the whole north bank trying to make noise plus the blocks 26-24, then the atmosphere will be class
I truly don’t mean to knock you but there’s no guarantee of that. Atmosphere is the wrong reason to do this anyway imo. Any effort to make the game more accessible I fully support. If that leads to better atmosphere then great.
