English Soccer - Season tickets pulled for "persistent standing"

When I went to the Ohio game in 09 we stood the entire game with the exception of halftime. Don't know how much I has changed since then, though.

Herm's wet dream.

I wish people would stand up more often during big parts of the game at Michigan stadium, but don't be that asshole that stands up while everyone around you is sitting down and expect not to be told to sit down. 

I'm all for standing during the game, but I know enough people who are physically unable to stand for that length of time to not pick that battle. 

Now yelling and cheering on the other hand, I can totally get behind that.  As long as you keep it respectful, there's no legitimate reason for anyone to be upset.

doesn't know how to properly participate at a game:

Here is what annoys me about people telling me not to stand at games: personally I am far more comfortable standing the whole game instead of trying to stand, sit, stand, sit, stan-no-sit, sit-stand, etc.  Yes I am "young" (27), but I'm relatively average height (6-1) and I hate when my legs and elbows touch other people whether I know them or not.

this really isn't comparable to anything in an American sporting event... we never had 50,000 seat stadiums composed entirely of standing terraces that led to multiple instances of death from collapses and crowd crushes. The scars over there that led to seats being mandated in the Prem are still fresh. 

I had tickets for that miracle Wisconsin game in 2008(?) a section away from the students, around the 15-20 yard line, everyone was standing. People in front of me. People to the side of me. People in back of me. All standing. When people aren't standing, I'm one of those people that sits down too, to be respectful. But if people are standing, I stand.

Suddenly I feel something jab me in the back... really freaking hard. So I turn around and there's this guy, maybe 35-40 and he's yelling at me to "Sit down! I paid good money for my son and I to watch the game!"  It took all I had to not just punch the guy in the face, and instead I give him my best "WTF" look. Then he starts to walk back up  FIVE rows back to his seat and yells back at me "Be a leader, man!"

Now granted, I'm pretty tall (6'3") but he was FIVE rows behind us. And I can also understand his kid being small and not being able to see when people are standing. But let me state this again... he was FIVE rows behind us. And of the hundreds of people standing in front and to the side of him and his son, he chose to single me out.  So I was even more "WTF?!"

F*** that guy, way to set an example for your son, dude. When you can't get your way, resort to physical violence. Nice work.

I kept standing.

Whether people sit or stand is ultimately beside the point.  Just be loud.  You can make noise while seated.

I pay $32 per cushion for the season...I sit as often as possible.

at upper level English games because of the Taylor Report which recommened standing terraces be replaced with all-seater stadiums in the interest of crowd safety.  Several incidents led to this conclusion but the Hillsborough tragedy of 1989 where 96 Liverpool fnas were crushed to death in an overcrowded terrace was the tipping point.   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Report

Most people in the US have absolutely no idea how completely incident free and safe most of our sporting events are.  I really don't think even our worst compares to the average everyday security problems at English soccer events.  Other parts of Europe are even worse.

As an aside the police inquest into Hillsborough blamed the tragedy on Liverpool fans, which those families and the club have had to carry with them for 25 years.  This year the inquest was overturned placing the blame on the authorities.  It was a terrible tragedy made worse by a blatant government cover-up which those people have had to live with for 2 1/2 decades. 

At last justice for the 96.

It really isn't that hard.

If you're the only person standing in your row, and you're separated from the field by 20 rows of seated people, you're doing it wrong.

If you have ever turned around and done the "up in back" when no one in front of you is standing up, you're doing it wrong.

If you berate another spectator for not having the audacity to fit your definition of being "into the game" because they're not standing up, you're doing it wrong.  And you're doing it extra wrong if that person is elderly/pregnant/physically incapable of standing for four hours, and you do it anyway.

If you pretend to suddenly fall deaf when a choir of people ask to not to have to look at your back for another quarter, you're doing it wrong.

If when they go get security and you talk back to the cop and/or usher because you "have the right to stand up," you're doing it wrong.

I've seen all of these things become a fairly common occurrence in my section in the past five years.  For whatever reason, it's become a problem.  We even had two people booted during the Northwestern game because they got angry and confrontational to the point of near-violence when they were repeatedly and politely asked to sit down in unison by at least five rows of people behind them.  They'd done this all season, and we'd had enough.  When the cops came and they decided to get abrasive about their right to stand, they were gone.  And we enjoyed the rest of the game without having to look at their backs.  

Courtesy and consideration counts, people.  We all want to enjoy the game.  But it's a stadium with people young and old, big and small.  It isn't an entire stadium of the student section, like it or not.  There are lots of ways to enjoy the game, and if you have to sit down until the big plays (when most everyone stands up anyway), it's not going to kill you.