I agree - the whole thing does seem to lack common sense in that respect. I also found it quite amusing that the Announcer chap kept exhorting the crowd to make some noise - and then a minute later we're being told to sit down and be quiet.
I think they might have a job on their hands for the home leg of the Play Off Semi.
It'd be nice to think that we'd be given the choice to stand or sit like in Germany, but I don't think that'll ever happen.
Terry Emmott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As for the stewarding - wtf is it all about? I only manage half a dozen home matches a season, and Crewe was my first one in the Kop this year - every five minutes the bloody stewards were flapping about telling you to sit down and all this carry on. A right pain the lot of em.I tell you what if I'd wanted to be treated like a child for the afternoon I'd have gone shopping with my missus.Absolutely ridiculous.To be fair to the stewards ( and I do agree, it's a pain in the arse), they're only doing what they have been told to do.Persistent standing is against the licence that the club have been granted to have crowds at ER, so they have to be seen to be trying to do something about it.It is, of course, very dangerous to stand (!) because if there is a surge and people fall over the seats someone could be seriously hurt.Apparently it's fine though to stand when people get excited because it looks as if a goal might be scored because that's human nature and to be expected.When do surges take place?After a goal is scored, so we'd all be standing up then anyway!!The whole logic of this not being allowed to stand is so stupid it defies belief.It also amuses me that the stewards spend all the first half annoying us by going on about it and then seem to get fed up and disappear after half time.It's bizarre.
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