Liverpool's new elected mayor has said that safe standing at football grounds should be examined, as the city prepares for a crucial vote among supporters on the sensitive subject.
The subject is more delicate on Merseyside than anywhere else in Britain because it was the horror of the 1989 Hillsborough Disaster which prompted the introduction of all-seaters, through Lord Justice Taylor's report into the tragedy.
Steve Rotheram, a Liverpool supporter who was elected to the powerful new Metro Mayor position two months ago, said his instinct was that 'small sections [of safe standing areas] that are barriered off so there is not lateral, or forwards and backwards, sway are something we need to look at.