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Stadiums that take the spotlight.

A weather warning has been issued here in Catalunya about a wee bit o wind. Hurricane #bawbag has decided to take a holiday on the Costa Brava. Here is another side dish of paella and Bovril for you to munch on. Hope you enjoy. PLEASE SUPPORT THE MATCHDAY PROGRAMME Football stadiums have been a fixture in our skylines for a good while now. Of course those outlines have changed over the years. In the mid 90s many a Scottish football fan jumped a wall to collect turf, turnstiles and toilet chains from grounds before the town saw the bulldozers come in and the cranes go up as terraces and sheds made way for seats and stairwells. In Kirkcaldy, Stark's Park’s outline hadn't changed much. Things were added and changed, like in the 50s when the the floodlights where placed onto the recently added “covering” that had been put in for fans, or new terraces and crush barriers put in, but the shed skyline has stayed the same. In Barcelona, Camp Nou has been part of the Les Cor