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PICS: Oh how stadiums evolve...from homes to 'toilet bowls'

For those who call football a religion, stadiums are our temples. But with plush new stadiums acc...



PICS: Oh how stadiums evolve.....
Off The Ball Radio

PICS: Oh how stadiums evolve...from homes to 'toilet bowls'

For those who call football a religion, stadiums are our temples.

But with plush new stadiums accused of being soulless, has something been lost?

That's something Joe looked at on this week's Team 33, seeing how stadiums like Arsenal's Emirates could actually become more homely as time goes on - and also looking at how safe standing areas may come in sooner rather than later.

And it's interesting how Serie A has been hankering for English style grounds.

Listen in below or download the podcast via iTunes.

But to help give you a visual representation of what we were talking about on air, cast your eye over these:

 

Arsenal

Highbury stadium, the old home of Arsenal ©INPHO/Allsport

 

Aerial view of the Emirates Stadium, home of Arsenal football club in Ashburton Grove, Holloway ©INPHO/Getty Images

 

Leicester

Filbert Street, the former home of Leicester in 1996 ©INPHO/Tom Honan

 

Leicester City's current ground was once known as the Walkers Stadium. Today it's the King Power stadium ©INPHO/Allsport

 

Middlesbrough

Middlesbrough played at Ayresome Park from 1903 until 1995

 

They moved into the Riverside Stadium. Here it is in 1996 ©INPHO/Tom Honan

 

Southampton

The Dell had weird ends as Joe explains on the podcast

 

A general view of St Mary's Ground, Southampton. ©INPHO/Allsport

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