Safe Standing - Fan led consultation - online link - post #43

[amfy]

I have just read back my post above and realised how tired I get after an 11 hour shift! It is a masterpiece of butchery of the English language!

[amfy]

I have got the Safe Standing Roadshow coming on Sunday! We are going to set up near the Trinity Road ticket collection office, which is a good spot, because people collect tickets for all parts of the ground there, and there is a lot of passing traffic.
We need some help to set up at around midday. Any chance of any volunteers? You don't have to stay and survey unless you want to! Just head to the pub till kick off - but I do really need about 3 men to help us unload the rig and set it up.
any offers?

[OCD]

You never know amfy, Sky might spend a few minutes looking at the issue of safe standing and want to interview you?!

[amfy]

Oh Shit!

[Weedy]

Demo of the safe standing at the ground to-morrow

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/jon-darch-show-aston-villa-6206881

I see AMFy is mentioned in the article too.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

You know I'll be there amfy!

Already looking forward to behaving like an idiot behind the Sky chappy while he's interviewing you.
Fun times!
UTV!

[amfy]

I am really nervous about today because it is probably the final day of the campaign. Having invited the safe standing bloke up from that there London, I would really like it to go well, but rain is forecast & I am worried that all the surveys will get soggy.
Surveying people at tables, who are not on the move has been easy, but it is hard to stop people who are on the move, especially if it's chucking it down.
Still - today the forecast is 'showers', whereas next week for Everton it is 'downpours' - so it made sense to go for it today.
Some random twitter people have offered to help with the set up, so I hope they turn up. Twitter went a little berserk on me for a couple of hours yesterday and I was at work with virtually no signal and unable to respond to most of it!
I hope that I can get away before the game & catch Kick off, I'd like it to be in time for a pint, but I'm not hopeful!
I am very very nervous at the prospect that someone from the telly might want to talk to me. That is very scary indeed.
Look forward to the re-assuring presence of frankmosswasmyuncle, & possibly My Jeffries
........anyway.....I think we have done it, I think we have done what we need to do to show that this has the fan's backing, and then it is over to Villa to get on with it & stop the Manc glory hunters from stealing our thunder!

[Legion]

Good luck, amfy.

[UK Redsox]

I have got the Safe Standing Roadshow coming on Sunday! We are going to set up near the Trinity Road ticket collection office,

This is the first time that anything that close to Legion has been deemed "safe standing"

[OCD]

Reading that article that Weedy posts, it looks like we'll need the support of 14 out of 20 Premier League clubs so getting Man United on board would be a big step forward. We as a club (with Amfy at the forefront of the campaign) have been the visionaries and the leaders though as we have so often been throughout our history.

Don't worry too much about Sky Amfy, they only have half an hour to build up the game and tend to be more bothered about that than anything else. If they should speak to you, just treat the interviewer as another punter who's interested in learning more about safe standing. Ignore everything else. You'll do fine. 

[oldtimernow]

You'll be fine Amfy and we'll all be proud of you!

[dave.woodhall]

Well done to Amfy for getting this sorted. I was there for a couple of minutes and in that time, total respect to John Wragge of the daily Express for coming over, talking and being generally interested in the display. No respect whatsoever to the ignorant ****** who said "I'm against it," turned his back and walked away while I was talking to him. The ******'s name, quelle surprise, is Alan Green.

[danno]

Alan Green is probably obligated to that stance, just by being a Liverpool supporter.

Coming over for no other reason than to say he's against it, is however a 100% Green-ism.
The self importance he affords himself is as comical as it is grating.

"Alan I don't care! just describe what's happening you fat idiot."
Is a phrase I've shouted at my radio heaps of times, when he's bleating on about the
referee or something in the crowd he doesn't approve of.

[mrastonvilla]

What an arrogant twat!

Did he give a reason for being against safe standing?

[dave.woodhall]

Alan Green is probably obligated to that stance, just by being a Liverpool supporter.

Coming over for no other reason than to say he's against it, is however a 100% Green-ism.
The self importance he affords himself is as comical as it is grating.

"Alan I don't care! just describe what's happening you fat idiot."
Is a phrase I've shouted at my radio heaps of times, when he's bleating on about the
referee or something in the crowd he doesn't approve of.

He didn't come over. He was asked to see it as he walked past, said what he did then turned his back as I was talking to him.