The attendance was 45,000 last night so there were 12,000 empty seats. Plenty enough to provide adequate segregation if they moved fans to appropriate areas. Instead, they just moved fans to make the stadium look fuller on TV.
I remember reading that there are issues regarding segragations within the actual stadium construct itself not only in the seating area. For example, you can walk out into the concourse and just walk anywhere you like, the full circle of the stadium to any area as you see please. That is a big factor in why it's so unsuited to being a football stadium.
How to stop people walking around without regularly checking their tickets?
No wonder they had huge police and increased stewarding during the Chelsea match, but what did it do? It stopped nothing, or rather minimised the problem at least.
Knowing this, West Ham didn't bother sorting out the stewarding, yes I know it's not their contract but take some responsibility? They got a cheap deal because also part of not having to handle anything themselves.
The policing issue, police said they won't help unless they sort out the radio signal problems the stadium had, long known problem before moving into the stadium. Why is that neglected?
They have such a myriad of problems with this stadium, before even getting to the flat atmosphere, poor aesthics with the seating away from the pitch, the increased capacity issues.
