Absolutely no chance of prices for a standing area being decreased, it's just not going to happen. They will blame extra security requirements or something.

Well, that may depend on the club. You might be surprised.

At least one EPL club has told us that they would like to have safe standing ...

Does safe standing actually increase capacity of stadiums or do you have the same amount of people in the space as could be seated.

It all depends on what any new rules for safe standing might say.

In theory safe standing would indeed increase capacity.

At the Emirates you have wide rows ...

Of course, what is being proposed is a 'European' solution anyway, i.e. German-style rail seats, as used in many Bundesliga grounds hosting UEFA games, like the AWD Arena in Hannover, where this video was filmed:

http://youtu.be/apX5V1IJCW4

If you think that, like the Germans, we should also ...