League One Side Shrewsbury Town Installing Rail Seats

Shrewsbury Town will become the first club in England and Wales to provide safe standing.GETTY IMAGES

League One side Shrewsbury Town has "begun work to install safe-standing rail seats at the Montgomery Waters Meadow Stadium," according to the PA. The club will "become the first in England and Wales to provide safe standing," with 555 rail seats being installed in the ground's Salop Leisure South Stand. Shrewsbury Town CEO Brian Caldwell said, "It's going to hopefully help the atmosphere going forward and I think you could see with the south stand that the acoustics worked so well. Hopefully, having that big body of support behind the south stand, cheering the team on, will help us in the long term as well." The pilot scheme "has been supported by the English Football League" and was given "the go-ahead" by the Sports Grounds Safety Authority, the government agency set up to regulate sports stadia after the '89 Hillsborough disaster (PA, 5/15).