Shadow sports minister Rosena Allin-Kha holds a Labour 4 Safe Standing t-shirt, at Loftus Road, Queens Park Rangers
LABOUR backed safe-standing in the Premier League and Championship today, increasing the pressure on the government to follow suit.
Clubs in English football’s top two tiers have had to be all-seater by law ever since the 1989 Hillsborough disaster that left 96 Liverpool fans dead.
But large numbers of fans have continued to stand throughout games and calls for a scrapping of the all-seater requirement have grown in recent years, particularly after an independent review in 2012 confirmed that standing was not the cause of the Hillsborough tragedy.
ROGER MCKENZIE argues that it was correct to ban the notorious Israeli side who were likely to cause trouble in Muslim areas of Birmingham, but asks, given the occupation and slaughter in Palestine, why any Israeli team is being hosted anywhere
JAMES NALTON writes on the bizarre Aston Villa v Maccabi Tel Aviv scandal
