MacK1950 2,231 Posted September 17, 2018 Share Posted September 17, 2018 At last couple of games I've been at when our team has been announced we are then told that the substitutes will be shown on the big screens. The fact that a few more seconds is not taken to read them out concerns me for a couple of reasons:- 1) Visually impaired are at a disadvantage,unless accompanied by a sighted person. 2) Where I,and many others,sit under the the Sandy Jardine stand there is no sight of the big screens. Might seem trivial but we all pay our money and are entitled to hear full details of team and subs.. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFK-1 1,674 Posted September 18, 2018 Share Posted September 18, 2018 7 hours ago, MacK1950 said: At last couple of games I've been at when our team has been announced we are then told that the substitutes will be shown on the big screens. The fact that a few more seconds is not taken to read them out concerns me for a couple of reasons:- 1) Visually impaired are at a disadvantage,unless accompanied by a sighted person. 2) Where I,and many others,sit under the the Sandy Jardine stand there is no sight of the big screens. Might seem trivial but we all pay our money and are entitled to hear full details of team and subs.. I'm not being critical of you or any visually impaired person but it never occurred to me that someone who had such an impairment they couldn't see what was on a big screen would go to a football match. Perhaps they do I suppose. And as I said it just never occurred to me before that they might. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacK1950 2,231 Posted September 18, 2018 Author Share Posted September 18, 2018 I don't know if it still occurs but many non/severely impaired sighted persons used to attend games with a "commentator"who would give details to them on how the play was going.Also to those that did come they were able to soak in the atmosphere. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
917 191 Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 I think it is kind of amateur-ish that the guy doesn’t read out half time substitutions or other half time scores either. And don’t say we can all check them on our phones, as the signal on my iPhone never works in that big a crowd & the WiFi doesn’t work either. They don’t even have sky sports news on in the foyer at half time either.. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacK1950 2,231 Posted September 22, 2018 Author Share Posted September 22, 2018 Thanks 917 I don't have an iphone or similar nor anything that connects to wifi so am disadvantaged from where I sit with no sight of big screens. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whosthedado 1,499 Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 My phone or wi-fi doesn't work inside Ibrox or most of the surrounding area! 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooponthewing 1,139 Posted October 3, 2018 Share Posted October 3, 2018 On 18/09/2018 at 03:34, JFK-1 said: I'm not being critical of you or any visually impaired person but it never occurred to me that someone who had such an impairment they couldn't see what was on a big screen would go to a football match. Perhaps they do I suppose. And as I said it just never occurred to me before that they might. Of course people who have issues with sight go to the football. I used to be on a bus with a guy who was totally blind. There was always someone with him to sit next to and tell him what was happening 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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