We are yet to hear chants of “stand up if you love safe standing” echo around Premier League grounds but there is undoubtedly a groundswell of opinion building behind an idea that even five years ago was habitually dismissed by clubs as a non-starter.
Survey after survey has shown the vast majority of fans welcome the idea of safe-standing areas – rows of so-called rail seating as popularised in the Bundesliga almost two decades ago and successfully introduced at Celtic Park for almost 3,000 fans this season – that are a world away from the unsafe, crumbling, concrete terraces of yore.
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