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​Petition ensures safe-standing will be debated in Parliament

Safe-standing in the Premier League and Championship will be debated in Parliament on 25 June.

It comes after a successful petition to the UK government, which was signed by over 110,000 people.

The government said earlier this month there were no plans to change the all-seater policy after West Brom had a safe-standing proposal rejected.

Standing in English football's top two divisions was outlawed by the Football Spectators' Act in 1989.

It came following recommendations made in the Taylor Report into the Hillsborough disaster, which claimed the lives of 96 Liverpool fans.

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