Its pretty widespread and certainly not banned on health and safety grounds as the police are aware of the actual attendances.

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Its pretty widespread and certainly not banned on health and safety grounds as the police are aware of the actual attendances.

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I can only tell you what I know from the grounds I used to work at. They need to know how many people are actually accounted for[i in the ground[/i for emergency evacuations etc. You add a couple of thousand on and there is an incident and people need to be accounted for, you are breaching health and safety (and possible risking peoples lives). Anyway as someone else has already pointed out, why would Hull do this when the user agreement states we have to pay x amount of money on attendances over 7500. It would be pretty stupid to announce more in the ground and have to pay the SMC extra for "ghost fans" that don't exist just to make the KC Stadium look more full than it is.

I can only tell you what I know from the grounds I used to work at. They need to know how many people are actually accounted for[i in the ground[/i for emergency evacuations etc. You add a couple of thousand on and there is an incident and people need to be accounted for, you are breaching health and safety (and possible risking peoples lives). Anyway as someone else has already pointed out, why would Hull do this when the user agreement states we have to pay x amount of money on attendances over 7500. It would be pretty stupid to announce more in the ground and have to pay the SMC extra for "ghost fans" that don't exist just to make the KC Stadium look more full than it is.