I am sure there is someone at the club who is good enough with words, or a legal representative they can contract who is good enough with legalese, to work this out how to say - 'your seat is now in a standing section, do you want to move? We'll do you a deal!' ......without actually saying that they are creating a standing section!
I have already said on this thread that Man U's allocation is reduced for persistent standing.If people sit down when asked, but pop straight back up again when the stewards walk away, then the club can say - we do all we can to get them to sit down, but they stand up again. If people just completely refuse to sit down, the club have to be seen to be doing something about this. That something is likely to be a 'once a season' example of ' we've even thrown them out'. Then they can say they are trying to enforce seating.The club lose money on Man U's reduced allocation. They will therefore be trying to get them to sit down, but they are simply refusing to sit down. They may even throw a few out, but we probably aren't seeing that from where we are, but it is simply not true to say it isn't enforced on away fans, because it is. Further than that, the club have been threatened with sections of The Holte being closed for persistent standing, they do have to be SEEN to enforce seating, but this isn't quite the same as us having to sit. There's a fair bit of manoeuvrability in semantics.
Yeah, the whole "the club are victimising us for standing up" argument falls down when it turns out that only one was actually ejected, and it was for standing on a chair rather than just standing.Rather than tell their friend to stop being a twat, Brigada seem to have decided to act like martyrs and left en masse. spoiled little kids and taken their ball home.