How All Seater Stadiums Have Taken The Atmosphere Out Of Football Grounds
I have been to watch football matches from a very early age. My father started taking me to watch my favourite team Birmingham City from the age of six. In this article I write about how in my opinion, all seater stadiums have taken the atmosphere out of football grounds.
I remember as a young child feeling quite intimidated by the crowd at Birmingham City’s home ground, called St Andrews. The noise and singing of the supporters was even quite frightening at times.
The football team itself, always seemed to struggle each season and we seemed to lose more games than we would win. I still however could not wait for the next match to arrive and had a dream that I myself would one day wear the blue and white strip and play for Birmingham myself. Football you see was my passion at the time.
The supporters had quite a number of songs which they would sing and each season would add a couple of new songs, normally criticising the rival team Aston Villa.
The songs and shouted comments were always full of humour and even when the team was losing, the supporters would...