The Premier League has taken a long leap away from fans in recent years as mega money and corporate boxes have taken over from the sort of traditional fan-led arrangements that had previously seen football take a fairly dire turn, driving away from the game children and families in the process.
However, with safety in modern stadiums having since taken priority, and with players, fans, and the Premier League all in agreement that there can never be a repeat of the tragic scenes so often associated with terraces, there are still calls to be heard for terraces to be reinstated in Premier League grounds, where fans already stand for large periods of the game and where this kind of behaviour at the moment leads to families and children forced out of these seating areas despite the fact that they are only "unofficial" standing areas and anyone in the Betfair Loyalty program will have noticed this.
These calls have so far been rejected, but it may soon be the case that the likes of Manchester United feel so distanced from their fans that they are forced to take notice of the German teams that have successfully integrated terraced areas into their new modern stadiums, with no greater levels of danger than those that exist in seating areas. So, it would seem that the Premier League is under a fair deal of pressure to show that they still care about the average fan, who seems to have been forgotten about as the money has rolled in over the past few years, and if you're a Betfair VIP this may be worth keeping an eye on.
That said, with the Premier League already rejecting any talk of terraces, it looks like it will take a real fans movement for clubs to start to accept that a return to terraces is not going to end in disaster and would actually increase attendance and reduce overall costs for fans coming to games each week.
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