West Ham United have revealed more changes have been made to the London Stadium as fans return for the first time in nine months.
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The pandemic has kept West Ham fans out of the London Stadium since February.
But 2,000 of them will be back on Saturday evening as West Ham entertain Manchester United.
More changes afoot at the London Stadium
During the time away West Ham have reconfigured the seating behind both goals to square it off in line with a more traditional football stadium.
There are plans in the future to do the same on the sides of the stadium as well where the bowl shape of the ground leaves a huge gap between the stands and the action.
Further stadium enhancements are on the way it seems. That’s after West Ham made an exciting announcement yesterday which bodes well for the future.
West Ham put plans in place to be ready for introduction of safe standing
The Hammers announced on Friday that they have prepared for the expected implementation of safe standing at football grounds by putting plans in place to install safe-standing rails for 3,000 seats.
Arena Group has been appointed to install safety rails – needed for safe standing at football matches – among seating at the top Sir Trevor Brooking Stand Upper Tier.
And the Hammers revealed both the reconfigured stands behind the goals are ready for safe standing rails too (whufc.com).
Atmosphere would undoubtedly be improved
“The two recently-installed new stands in the Sir Trevor Brooking and Bobby Moore Lower Tiers have already been fully designed with any possible future developments with regards to safe standing already in mind. so as to be compatible for future installation, to allow them to be adapted should there be any changes to Premier League guidelines on safe standing,” West Ham said in a statement.
Having a big proportion of the 60,000 London Stadium crowd – post pandemic restrictions – on their feet cheering West Ham on will undoubtedly improve the atmosphere.
More positive news in what is turning out to be a hugely positive season for the Hammers.
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