Arsenal Stadium (Highbury)

Highbury stadium the ground to one of englands best football clubs That team being arsenal In less than 3 monthes highbury is being demolished and Highbury’s Grade II-listed East Stand and opposing West Stand will be converted into high-spec apartments, many overlooking the pitch, which has seen so many glorious football moments over the last 93 years. The goalposts will be removed and the pitch will become a garden of nearly two acres. The North and South Stands will be replaced by new-build apartments designed to harmonise with the East and West Stands.The luxury of the development continues with an underground swimming pool and fitness centre under the ...

This is the last season that fans will get to see football played at it’s purest at Highbury as the new stadium will be open for business for the start of the 2006 season. Now you might think that as a life long fan who used to live in N5 I will be sad to see the team move to a new stadium where the name has already been sold to the highest bidder, Emirates, however you would be wrong. It is not that I don’t love the old stadium even with all of it’s faults, what is more important to me is that the team are able to compete and continue to win things and the sad reality is that crowds of 38, 000 do not generate the kind of revenue that allow the team to compete with the ...

If you’re going to Highbury to watch your team play Arsenal then unless you’re Man U or Chelsea you’ll be expecting to be outclassed for the majority of the match. If luck is on your side you may grind out a draw, a win would be the stuff of dreams but the likelihood is that you’ll not be leaving with three points. We made our journey to Highbury knowing that there was an odds on chance we would lose, at Carrow Road we had witnessed an Arsenal master class as they beat us 4-1. The result at Highbury was just the same although we did get a good strike from Darren Huckerby. It’s just a shame we allowed Mr Henry a lot of time and space! I’d never been ...