Still not disabled though is he........I cut my finger at work at work and i cant tear slip out of pass...will someone help me at turnstyle?????

Did he ring the KC to check before turning up? With the East and South Stands expected to be near capacity it would have been unwise to turn up expecting to be allowed in the disabled area without prior advice.

thats cos you got sausage fingers and are a money grabbing sod

lol

When Dan dislocated his knee ( x 3) during the season we used the South stand and I did contact the club asking if there was any space. They siad they had but it soon filled up, but there are seats that can be used on the flat with leg room for those with leg injuries etc. These seats are too the left of the disabled area's and you have to climb up one step and they are ok as we used them. There should not be a problem with using the lift entrance into and out of the stadium the stewards I have found to be OK.

You will have to get there earlier as they are not reserved and you may not be all sat together, but whats more important.

Getting pi$$ed up at games apparently!!

two years ago my lad had a full cast on left leg, rang club and and they got us two tickets for front row west stand, only paid for one with me as carer, got in stadium via the corner entrance, v Bradford i think, fantastic effort on club or KC,s behalf

I attended the k.c. many times last year on crutches....[work related Never once thought to sit in the disabled part.....i was only on crutches for gods sake.....

taking it like a man then sparkey!

The moral of the story seems to be get in touch first. When Mrs 28 had sprained her ankle badly a few years back and was on crutches, we had a game at Cas the following weekend. I called them and they were great - seats in the main stand for both of us for free and assistance from their stewards.

And that was a drinking injury too

I think you can buy casts that just strap on. Might get one and see how many freebies I can blag

Why did i read that as Kaths Strap On

Flashbacks to last night?

so what you are saying in clear English is that the stewards are wrong for stopping a man from sitting in an area he isnt eligable to sit in despite him turning up unannounced and expecting to be able to am I right here or not??
what I dont get here is why he thought he was eligable

???
If I was the steward involved my response would have been along the lines of " oh jesus how unlucky for you, I bet that hurts doesnt it but as you managed to walk in here under your own steam then head towards the area your meant to be sat in under your own steam .. ta ta

Do you work in a brewery?

If he had gone to the ticket office well in advance they would have made arrangements I know this is a fact my wife had a knee replacement and I when to the ticket office and they were very helpful ..We got seats in the disabled area.. at Half time the wife wanted the loo and a lady steward took her to the toilets and waited out side the loo and guide her back to our seats ..somebody could have made arrangements in advance

ya but as i said they was plenty of space left, after kick off and we carried him up and down the stairs as he couldnt bend his leg and put weight on it, the steward didnt even point us in direction of empty isle seats
ya to be fair we should of rang in advance

If he was so badly hurt he couldn't bend his leg or put weight on it then the last place he should have been was a RL game, I assume he didn't even consider the risk he was placing on everyone else had there been the need for an evacuation etc.?

So think on all those in wheelchairs, disabled or generally infirm. You're putting us all at risk by attending games. You really need to think whether or not its worth attending in future.

Standee, you do talk some bollox at times.

Not at all, those in wheelchairs are placed in ambulant areas that have egress plans (I know, I used to write them) likewsie the genuinely disabled will know what they need to do, likewise the generally infirm, they have lived with their circumstances for some time (usually)

I don't talk bollox, I've run a major stadium, have you?

Have to agree with Stanley on this one.

Standee the officials let him into the ground it is surely their job to look at these things. If he was putting people at risk then they should have moved him to the disabled area. And then he would have been happy

Not if the disabled areas were already full.

As I say, when you've been responsible for a stadium, feel free to comment further.

It has already been made abundantly clear the disabled areas were not full. Just because i have not run a stadium does not mean i am not able to comment.

No, but it doesn't mean you know the square root of anything about why the decisions were made.

Anyway, it's irrelevant, the op's mate just has to "get over it".

Of course I haven't, I've not even run a minor stadium.

But you suggested that the OP's friend should not have even considered attending due to his injury, at the risk of putting others in danger, then regardless of your stadium management experience and qualifications, you are wrong.

I think its a safe bet that no-one (yourself excluded) would ever think not to attend a match because an injury (regardless of how it was caused) they sustained would put others at risk in the event of an evacuation.

And I beg to differ on the bollox issue