n European football there is a very different pat- tern, with each stadium typically owned by the local municipality and used by a large number of sports clubs. The football clubs run their own lotteries, ploughing the profits back into the game; many sta- dia are also used for other sports, particularly ath- letics. For all these reasons European stadia have in the past tended to be better funded than British ones and somewhat better designed and built – examples are Düsseldorf, Cologne or the World Cup venue at Turin. Dual-use facilities have the drawback that the placement of an athletics track around the pitch pushes spectators away from the playing area, thus reducing spectator/player contact, but such loss of intimacy must be weighed against the advan- tage of better community use.