How come...

[LoyalRoyalFan]

Cardiff fans can stand at their new ground? We can't allow a few 100 fans to stand, yet they can let a whole stand.

Regulations applying for some and not for others?

[rhroyal]

Doesn't help them generate much atmosphere anyhow. Another club succumbs to the soulless new stadium problem.

[Terminal Boardom]

Because they ALL stand. In the middle class environment that is the Mad Stad, standing is frowned upon.

[Row Z Royal]

Too bloody right. I've paid for a seat and I want to bloody sit in it.

[Rev Algenon Stickleback H]

Because they ALL stand. In the middle class environment that is the Mad Stad, standing is frowned upon.

Who by?

I can't recall standing being frowned upon by anyone except the stewards.

[Big Foot]

Because they ALL stand. In the middle class environment that is the Mad Stad, standing is frowned upon.

Guess it was just the working class fans who went to Loftus Road yesterday then and stood for the whole game

[Terminal Boardom]

Because they ALL stand. In the middle class environment that is the Mad Stad, standing is frowned upon.

Guess it was just the working class fans who went to Loftus Road yesterday then and stood for the whole game

You have missed the point. If everyone stands, nothing will be done. Plus, if you dont stand at Stalag Loftus, you see feck all.

[frimmers3]

Because they ALL stand. In the middle class environment that is the Mad Stad, standing is frowned upon.

Guess it was just the working class fans who went to Loftus Road yesterday then and stood for the whole game

"working class fans"...were does schards fit in?

[FiNeRaIn]

How come Celtic fans can get away with that in regards to wearing poppies?

Also being tims, they cant spell bloodstained properly either, thickos.

[Big Foot]

Because they ALL stand. In the middle class environment that is the Mad Stad, standing is frowned upon.

Guess it was just the working class fans who went to Loftus Road yesterday then and stood for the whole game

You have missed the point. If everyone stands, nothing will be done. Plus, if you dont stand at Stalag Loftus, you see feck all.

So why mention classes as if making some kind of ground breaking observation?

[Rev Algenon Stickleback H]

So why mention classes as if making some kind of ground breaking observation?

Clearly Reading fans don't have the passionate, hard-edged working class background he craves in a football crowd, where you can watch the game among people for whom the game matters hugely in their lives. That's why he watches football in Maidenhead these days.

[swansea jack]

Cardiff fans can stand at their new ground? We can't allow a few 100 fans to stand, yet they can let a whole stand.

Regulations applying for some and not for others?

There's a big difference in the stewards at both C*rdiff and Swansea as opposed to the Mad Stad. They are all from the local area, have been doing it for years, know loads of the fans and are all themselves fans of one club or t'other. We don't appear to get the pcunts that you unfortunately seem to get.

And as mentioned above, may of the fans stand the whole game especially in the Y25/6 equivalents. When it happens in the 'prawn sandwich' seats people just sit down after the action.

Simples.

[LoyalRoyalFan]

So when Cardiff come on Wednesday, watch them all stand and not get noticed.

Few 100 fans stand in Y25/26 and it becomes an issue.

[Silver Fox]

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned it before

[Svlad Cjelli]

So when Cardiff come on Wednesday, watch them all stand and not get noticed.

Few 100 fans stand in Y25/26 and it becomes an issue.

See the 100s of posts saying there is strength in numbers and stewards are only human - they go for the achievable targets rather than start a riot.

[Terminal Boardom]

So why mention classes as if making some kind of ground breaking observation?

Clearly Reading fans don't have the passionate, hard-edged working class background he craves in a football crowd, where you can watch the game among people for whom the game matters hugely in their lives. That's why he watches football in Maidenhead these days.

Have yet to go to York Rd this season but the rest is well and truly nailed on. Football in the Ego Dome is so sterile. It is like decaf coffee - utterly bland and pointless.

[Magnus]

So why mention classes as if making some kind of ground breaking observation?

Clearly Reading fans don't have the passionate, hard-edged working class background he craves in a football crowd, where you can watch the game among people for whom the game matters hugely in their lives. That's why he watches football in Maidenhead these days.

Brilliant

I've been to York Road and their only chant "We're black, we're white, we're pfucking dynamite" has since been reworded to "jolly dynamite" to appease the families

Truth is most clubs have become more middle class over the last couple of decades, even Maidenhead.

[weybridgewanderer]

a standing thread, haven't had one of these for a while

yawn

[swansea jack]

So did they stand?

Also wonder whether the history of Urz combined with the timing of the Mad Stad has anything to do with it i.e. your fame hit at a time and in an arena which encouraged middle-class families and newbies to conform to sitting down.

Ftr, have enjoyed some great away experiences with Urz at Crewe, Hammers, Oxford, Swindon...

As above, and elsewhere, we really need to start looking at the German setup! Seeing the Munichs going mental in the festy style mosh pit behind their goal made me v jealous.