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Post by lostinspace on May 14, 2015 20:13:45 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2015 23:27:59 GMT
Tragic.
How many more lives have to be lost before clubs and football authorities realise that brick walls around the pitch can kill?
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Post by irishrover on May 15, 2015 9:19:22 GMT
Tragic. How many more lives have to be lost before clubs and football authorities realise that brick walls around the pitch can kill? To be honest I've always worried about the drop onto that concrete slope along the West Enclosure at the Mem. OK, it's probably not going to kill anyone but it could easily produce a career ending injury if somebody overran the pitch and crashed down by the steps where they were originally going to put the dugout. I never understood how Rugby managed it. Did they put up some sort of barrier - surely it wouldn't take much for a rolling maul to crash down there and it would be chaos. You see things that make you cringe like that all the time at football gorunds and that's just in the professional game. |
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2015 11:44:16 GMT
Tragic. How many more lives have to be lost before clubs and football authorities realise that brick walls around the pitch can kill? To be honest I've always worried about the drop onto that concrete slope along the West Enclosure at the Mem. OK, it's probably not going to kill anyone but it could easily produce a career ending injury if somebody overran the pitch and crashed down by the steps where they were originally going to put the dugout. I never understood how Rugby managed it. Did they put up some sort of barrier - surely it wouldn't take much for a rolling maul to crash down there and it would be chaos. You see things that make you cringe like that all the time at football gorunds and that's just in the professional game. Exactly. Is there no risk assessment carried out on these things? The madness of it all is that we can't get a safety permit without yellow paint in aisles, stewards throw people out of grounds for standing when they should be sitting, yet obviously dangerous things, like the one you mention, seem to go unnoticed until the day after someone is hurt. |
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2015 13:25:40 GMT
I've seen a player dislocated his shoulder on one of the walls at Mangotsfield.
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