1) The club can not and never will actually sanction standing in any part of the ground, apart from what the authorities call moments of high excitement, i.e a good challange, a goal, a short section of a song even. The reason is simple, that the council licence the ground as fit and proper to hold a sporting event with a capacity crowd of 45,000 and the council have our stadium as a seated venue just like every other Premier league ground. Occasionally they flex their muscles, normally with away fans, and we ourselves have experienced this at grounds like Sunderlands. So if our club officially authorised standing in any part of the ground, the council would take action. The so called "standing section" on the Kop isn't that, it's actually called the "singing section" by the club itself, and although they have occasionally tried to enforce sitting down, the council authorities appear to overlook the fact that people stand on the basis that the club make announcements for people to sit etc. As for "Big" games and European Nights, again the council choose to overlook the fact that noone sits, but if they wanted to play hardball they could close the entire Kop terrace.
2) As for the only section of the Kop singing being the 305 etc areas, well thats patently untrue, many sections of The Kop join in or initiate songs, though I do accept that many people around the Kop choose not to join in the songs. I would accept that the most consistent singing comes from 304/305 but the reality is that the "noise" is often lost into the rafters of The Kop and doesn't project around the terrace or ground until many more people join in. Whatever eventually happens to the stadium, new or refurb, i hope the designers give some thought to this to see how to project the Kop's noise rather than it being lost.
3) I've been standing and sitting on The Kop since 1971. As a kid my Dad took me and sat me on a bar near the top of The Kop and unless it was a really passionate moment, just like today, it might surprise you to know that the guys stood there silently, clapping or shouting abuse to incidents on the pitch and no doubt if they'd had mobile phones/cameras back then using them too. The biggest difference was there was more than twice as many people on The Kop back then and the "singing section" was the whole of the front section of The Kop with the roof projecting the noise by accident rather than by design.
The debate on this subject always falls into i sing better than you do, you don't sing so don't come on The Kop etc right through to people who then seem to want songs sung as if conducted by some musical genius with a baton on the pitch because Scouser Tommys sung too fast, or a "new" song is written on here thats so complex it would never take off on a stadium basis. Classic examples recently would be the old Lucas song which waffled on and on and in reality never really took off (especially when compared to his new song) and definately compared to songs for players like Maxi, Torres and Suarez which are simple, catchy and easy to pick up. The latest being various efforts to get a song for Craig Bellamy, when the Kop are actually chanting Craig Craig Craig Craig Bellamy, which is simple, effective and no doubt heard by the player himself.
Overall football has changed massively from the days of the 70's and 80's sometimes for the better often for the worse. The Kop remains a very passionate and noisy place, though a plae shadow of it's previous self. Somethings that happen such as the scarf twirling when LFC score look and feel great, somethings could be done better, for example the Dutch fans definately creat an atmosphere with there rythmic swaying, while seated, and we've seen plenty of foreign teams come and create an atmosphere in a seated section which looks visually good. The only way to change the Kop is work with what we have and use creative imaginations to make it more visual and noisy than it is today. Our fathers and grandfathers did when a silent crowd of the 50's became The Famous Kopites featured on TV in the 60's.
