Stand Up For the Irons

SportTrades support the campaign of Scunthorpe United and the FSF, to keep Scunthorpe standing. The post below was taking in full from the Football Supporters Federation recent newsletter.





At the end of the 2010/2011 season, government bureaucracy dictates that Scunthorpe United's Glanford Park must be converted into an all-seater stadium, simply because the club has been successful in reaching and remaining in the Championship for three years. This makes no sense. Keep Scunthorpe Standing wants the standing area to remain.

Glanford Park's standing area is modern and safe, and complies with all of the latest government safety standards. Morecambe FC, two divisions below Scunthorpe, has just moved into a new stadium – with standing areas very similar to those at Glanford Park. If this is acceptable for Morecambe, it should be acceptable for Scunthorpe, too.

Converting Glanford Park to all-seating would knock 1,000 off the capacity of what is already the smallest ground in the league. More people want to enjoy and share in the good times, yet as a result of them more people will be locked out.

Supporters are being punished for the success of the team, while the club face being forced to waste money on a redevelopment that nobody wants, to a stadium in which they will be able to sell fewer tickets.

Keep Scunthorpe Standing is the campaign that has been launched to challenge the ruling, and we'll be lobbying the Government and appropriate authorities to keep the standing area at Glanford Park.



To do this, we'll need your help.

Find out more, and register your support for our campaign by joining Keep Scunthorpe Standing on Facebook.

Hear more about the campaign, with Keep Scunthorpe Standing on the radio - a discussion from BBC Radio Humberside, with the campaign debate featured at 15 minutes and 63 minutes into the programme.