West Brom’s plans for standing areas rejected
West Bromwich Albion's plans to bring standing areas permanently back into the top English football leagues have been blocked by the sports minister, Tracey Crouch.
The club wanted to run a pilot scheme to introduce rail seating at The Hawthorns for both home and away fans next season, and had made its application last October.
All-seater stadia in the top two leagues in English football were introduced in the wake of the Hillsborough disaster, when the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans at an 1989 FA Cup semi-final were blamed on prob... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...
