STADIUM FRANGLAIS

摘要

While English national football struggles as a credible export commodity, English stadiums fare considerably better. European stadiums tend to be rather more consensual affairs than their English equivalents, with stadium sharing between teams and athletics tracks - both largely anathema in top-flight English football - being relatively common. In many ways several European football stadiums are the conceptual equivalents of the horseshoe parliamentary chambers favoured across the European continent that are, in theory at least, said to breed courtesy, consensus and collaboration. English stadium design on the other hand, rather like our gladiatorially confrontational House of Commons, tends to take a somewhat more aggressive approach. English stadiums are famed across Europe for the intensity and implied oppression of their design, with steeper stands, encircling roofs and the lack of athletics tracks said to foster a more energised connection between spectator and pitch.