{"id":3961,"date":"2011-04-01T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=3961"},"modified":"2011-03-31T17:31:21","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T16:31:21","slug":"bring-back-the-football-terraces-sign-the-petition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/bring-back-the-football-terraces-sign-the-petition\/","title":{"rendered":"Bring back the football terraces: sign the petition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bring-back-the-terraces.jpg\" alt=\"Bring back the football terraces: sign the petition\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Being forced to sit down in uncomfortable plastic seats at a football game is a bit like going to see The Clash and being asked to sit down and be quiet.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>All stand together<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Going to football is all about\u00a0being part of the\u00a0spectacle\u00a0and sharing the experience with your friends, and being forced into seats miles away from each other can really spoil the fun.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s other reasons why fans should be allowed to stand too: if you find yourself sat next to a\u00a0particularly\u00a0annoying\/smelly\/puritanical supporter, there&#8217;s no reason why you should have to annoy each other for the next 90 minutes &#8211; with terracing you can just stroll over to a part of the stand that suits you best.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/bring-back-the-terraces-1.jpg\" alt=\"Bring back the football terraces: sign the petition\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Keep some seating too<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Of course, if people want to sit down and clap politely then seating should be provided for them, but as far as I&#8217;m concerned, there&#8217;s no longer any good reason to stop clubs providing safe\u00a0standing\u00a0areas for\u00a0their\u00a0fans &#8211; and that&#8217;s why the &#8216;Support Safe Standing&#8217;\u00a0campaign\u00a0has got my signature.<\/p>\n<p>The petition has been put on line by the Football Supporters&#8217; Federation and asks fans to sign this statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I back the Football Supporters&#8217; Federation&#8217;s safe standing campaign and believe that football supporters should have the choice to watch football from a safe standing area, if they so wish, at matches in England and Wales.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fsf.org.uk\/petitions\/safestanding.php?id=&amp;page=sign\" target=\"_blank\">sign the petition here<\/a>. Please do!<\/p>\n<p><strong>More info<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fsf.org.uk\/uploaded\/publications\/pdfs\/safe-standing-report-web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The case for safe standing\u00a0at major football stadia\u00a0in England &amp; Wales<\/a> [PDF]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Got\u00a0something\u00a0to say?<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.net\/vbulletin\/threads\/339422-Safe-Standing-campaign-update-It-s-about-time!\" target=\"_blank\">Discuss this on our bulletin\u00a0boards.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being forced to sit down in uncomfortable plastic seats at a football game is a bit like going to see The Clash and being asked to sit down and be &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[399,1192],"class_list":["post-3961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-campaign","tag-football"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/bring-back-the-terraces.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-11T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3961"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3963,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961\/revisions\/3963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}