Cope (stadium)

Cope at Anfield , Liverpool's home arena

Spion Kop ( Eng. Spion Kop ) or just cop - a type of sloping terraces and stands in sports stadiums , especially common in the UK . Their steep slope resembles a hill next to Ladysmith in South Africa , which was the site of the Battle of Spioncope in January 1900 during the Second Boer War . ^[one]

The first known use of the term refers to the Manor Ground stadium, where the Woolwich Arsenal team played in 1904 ^[2] . A local journalist compared the silhouette of standing fans to soldiers standing on top of Spyon-Kop Hill during the famous battle in southern Africa ^[3] .

The size and location of the Kop rostrum varies from stadium to stadium. Most of them are located outside the gate; it is there that the singing fans of British clubs are concentrated. As a rule, it looks like this: a single-tiered tribune with traditional terraces. The cop is not necessarily the largest grandstand in the stadium and does not necessarily stand out for its capacity (for example, the old Chesterfield Stadium accommodated only a few thousand spectators). In Britain, after the so-called Taylor report, which examined the causes of the 1989 tragedy , the terraces were demolished and all places became seated.

The most famous for its unique atomosphere is “Kop” with singing Liverpool fans at the Anfield Stadium . ^[4] Liverpool fans are called kopaitis . ^[5] In order not to lose this atmosphere, the club owner decided to abandon the construction of a new, more spacious stadium ^[6] .

Some examples

Cope on Meadow Lane

Cop at st andrews

Stadium	Club	Title
Anfield	Liverpool	Spion Cope [7]
Arsenal	Arsenal	Spion Cope (Grandstand West Stand) [8]
Center Park	Wigan Warriors	Cope [9]
Baseball ground	Derby	Popside Cope (Popside) [10]
Bloomfield road	Blackpool	Mortensen Cope [11]
Bramall Lane	Sheffield United	Cope [12]
Country Ground	Northamptonshire	Spion Cope [13]
Deepdale	Preston North End	Bill Shankly Cope [14]
Elland road	Leeds United	Cope [15]
Philbert Street	Leicester City	Spion Cope (Double Decker) [16]
Highfield	Coventry City	Spion Cope Terrace [17]
Hillsboro	Sheffield Wensday	Spion Cope [18]
Home park	Plymouth Argyle	Spion Cope (dismantled in 2001)
Knowley Road	St helens town	Cop
Manor ground	Arsenal	Spion Cope [2]
Midow lane	Notts county	Spion Cope [19]
Oakwell	Barnsley	Spion Cope [20]
Park de prince	Paris Saint-Germain	Cope Boulogne [21]
Prenton Park	Tranmere Rovers	Bibington Cope [22]
Reyskource Ground	Wrexham	Spion Cope [23]
Recep Tayyip Erdogan	Kasympasha	Cop yahoo
Seltirgate	Chesterfield	Spion Cope [24]
St andrews	Birmingham city	Spion Cope [25]
Valley Parade	Bradford City	Cop End [26]
King power	Leicester City	Cope, Foss Stand [27]
De Wijverberg	De grafshap	Spionnicop
Windsor park	Linfield / Northern Ireland National Team	Cope [28]