Source: FOOTYMAD
Remember The Ends - The Clanford, Holt, Kop & The Loft Bring Back Standing
Let us recreate the home end match day experience of old. Remember the days when we stood on our own Kops - The Holt End, Sheffield Wednesday's Spion Kop, The Kippax & Stretford Ends, The Shelf at Spurs - I am proud to say as a kid I experienced the Loft at QPR with my dad, then The North Bank and Clock Ends at Highbury before being forced to buy seats in the West stand Lower with a late mate. It was the same thing that drove me to recreate the Clanford experience with Lee, Dean and Lemmy, as 4 voices became many as we stood amongst the seats on the Stacey West. All us fans had a home end once, our special 12 inches of space, maybe even a stantion to lean on - luxury I tell you luxury - on those vast stepped concrete colliseums of the past. It was home. Be it 7,000 like the Loft or 17,000 like the North Bank when I, born a londoner and christened an Imp much later, joined over 55,000 three times in almost a week in the 80's to see Spurs, Liverpool and Man Utd come to town. Then 100,000 at a fully roofed Wembley, forget Viagra - every hair on your neck standing on end. Up the back at the Home of football was something special I can tell you. But harking back to a bleak day on the empty vast expance of the old East terrace at Charlton - the 45,000 grand daddy of them all, I wish I could take my son back to the day when we could all stand together. So join us and The FSF, copy a link to this article from the top of your browser and paste this on every football fans website in the land PETITION: Support Safe Standing On Wednesday the Football Supporters’ Federation launched our Safe Standing Petition. We 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. Nine out of 10 fans support the choice to sit or stand, it's being debated in the House of Commons, and there's a sports minister listening to our arguments. There's never been a better time to make your voice heard. Sign the FSF's petition today, here...
