Disabled Fans: Is your club doing enough for you?

[Mikey_Fitzgerald]

https://www.theguardian.com/society...oing-enough-to-help-you-watch-the-game-access

Not sure if we have many disabled fans here on the site, but if you are, how do you feel Everton fare in this regard?

 

[Prevenger17]

I have a clean bill of health and Everton have done nothing but try to destroy it.

 

[canuckblue]

Liverpool have done well to expand the main stand to accommodate even more of the mentally disabled...

 

[roydo]

Liverpool have done well to expand the main stand to accommodate even more of the mentally disabled...

Stupidity on here it seems. Warned.

 

[canuckblue]

Stupidity on here it seems. Warned.

Sorry.

 

[Huyton Layne]

Never understood clubs that stick people with limited mobility in areas behind the goal where wayward shots are likely to end up.
Goodison always bugged me as it has an extreme camber and being pitch level is a terrible view, really should have used part of an actual stand and raised the disabled section a bit.

 

[Reidy's Bottle Of Grecian]

We're opening a new disabled section on the front rows of the main stand, I'd be well brassed off if I had to move (as current seat occupants are btw) cos yes they get 1st dibs on seats that don't get renewed but if most renew then they could end up going from a boss seat to an obstructed 1.

 

[Khalekan]

Never understood clubs that stick people with limited mobility in areas behind the goal where wayward shots are likely to end up.
Goodison always bugged me as it has an extreme camber and being pitch level is a terrible view, really should have used part of an actual stand and raised the disabled section a bit.

I don't know if I think that is a good idea.

If there was an emergency I would imagine the best place for disabled people, especially those in wheelchairs, is on level ground, near an exit.

If the wheelchairs are accommodated even in the lower sections of a stand and steps or stairs are involved, that would take more time to evacuate and that lost time could be the difference between life and death if ever we had, God forbid, a Bradford or Ibrox type disaster at Goodison.

 

[Khalekan]

We're opening a new disabled section on the front rows of the main stand, I'd be well brassed off if I had to move (as current seat occupants are btw) cos yes they get 1st dibs on seats that don't get renewed but if most renew then they could end up going from a boss seat to an obstructed 1.

I didn't know that.

And as per my other post, I think it is a bad idea.

How the heck could wheelchairs be quickly evacuated in the event of an emergency and they are heading for those narrow tunnels out onto the concourse?

And imagine the crush from behind by the able bodied if a wheelchair became stuck or coupled over.

IMO wheelchairs need to be at pitchside so they can be quickly wheeled to the big gates at the four corners of the ground if the worst was to happen.