{"id":617,"date":"2020-05-07T14:44:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T14:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.football-stadiums.co.uk\/stewards\/"},"modified":"2023-12-18T16:49:38","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T16:49:38","slug":"stewards","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.football-stadiums.co.uk\/articles\/stewards\/","title":{"rendered":"Stadium Stewards"},"content":{"rendered":"
Most football fans who attend grounds regularly won’t notice certain parts of the experience because they just become background noise.<\/p>\n
How often do the ball boys get a mention, for example? Other than when one grabbed the ball and gave it to Trent Alexander-Arnold for him to cross the ball and allow Divock Origi to score when Liverpool beat Barcelona 4-0<\/a> in the second-leg of the Champions League semi-final in 2019, it’s difficult to remember one not just being part of the furniture.<\/p>\n It’s a similar story for stewards, who are a vital part of the fans’ match-going experience and yet who barely get a second thought on days when everything goes as smoothly as it should.<\/p>\n It’s a good thing that we don’t know about them, of course, given that if we are noticing them then it almost certainly means that something has gone wrong and they’re having to step in to usher supporters to safety. Whilst they’re best being invisible, therefore, it’s still interesting to think about what they do.<\/p>\nA Brief History Of Stewarding<\/h2>\n