Stephen Bettis at the opening of Sheffield United's new fan zone

Chief executive Stephen Bettis at the opening of Sheffield United's new fan zone

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00:00Steven, we're here at the newly opened Bled fans zone, just give us a bit of an idea as to why you've created this.

00:05Yeah, I mean it's something we've been thinking about doing for a long time, but obviously we've never really had the space to do it.

00:11But fortunately we've been able to acquire the piece of land on the corner of the site about three months ago.

00:18Immediately it was the first idea to do with it was give the supporters somewhere to come pre-match, which we've always struggled to do before.

00:26And I think this literally is for the supporters and we hope they come and we hope they enjoy it.

00:31Give us an idea as to why it's so important to give this to the fans.

00:34We want the atmosphere to build up earlier on before the games, etc.

00:38We want supporters to be here earlier and enjoying it.

00:41Obviously we always have that 2.59 rush to get in before the three o'clock kick-off.

00:46And it's nice if we can get everyone here before that and come and enjoy it.

00:50And make more of a day of it rather than just watching 90 minutes of football.

00:54The whole point is this is a nice day out and hopefully they can come and enjoy it and enjoy the facilities that we provide.

01:00A great turnout as well for the first day?

01:02Yeah, really pleased.

01:03Obviously it's the first day and we give a few beers away, I think, early doors to get people in.

01:08But yeah, I've had a little walk around chatting to a few supporters and some really positive feedback, which is nice.

01:14And I hope it continues and they enjoy it.