Stand in the Place Where You Are

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“Borussia Dortmund’s Westfalenstadion is rarely mentioned in the same breath as Peterborough United’s London Road but both are at the centre of one of the hottest debates among football fans of recent years: the issue of standing at matches. The Taylor Report’s seemingly incontrovertible conclusions sprung up in the aftermath of the Hillsborough disaster and its preceding long decade of trauma and, in tune with alive and kicking. So, it was with a sense of heady nostalgia that I took up my place against the foremost crash barrier at the Moys End on Saturday. True, just last year, I had had an opportunity to relive my formative years at Dagenham, but this was a fairly high profile league game, just one notch below the Promised Land.” (thetwounfortunates)

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