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The Emotional Highbury and The Grand Ashburton Grove

Highbury 1913-2006

For the majority of their time in south-east London, Arsenal played at the Manor Ground in Plumstead, a three-year period at the nearby Invicta Ground between 1890 and 1893 excepted. The Manor Ground was initially just a field, but the club installed stands and terracing in time for their first Football League match in September 1893. They played their home games there for the next twenty years (with two exceptions in 1894�95), until the move to north London in 1913.



Arsenal Stadium, widely referred to as Highbury, was Arsenal's home from September 1913 until May 2006. The original stadium was designed by the renowned football architect Archibald Leitch, and had a design common to many football grounds in the UK at the time, with a single covered stand and three open-air banks of terracing. In the 1930s, the entire stadium was given a massive overhaul, with new Art Deco West and East stands constructed, opening in 1932 and 1936 respectively; in addition, the North Bank terrace had a roof added, which was later bombed during World War II and not restored until 1956.

At its peak, Highbury could hold over 60,000 spectators, and had a capacity of 57,000 until the early 1990s. The Taylor Report and Premier League regulations forced Arsenal to convert Highbury into an all-seater in time for the 1993�94 season, reducing the capacity to 38,419 seated spectators. This capacity had to be reduced further during Champions League matches to accommodate additional advertising hoardings, so much so that for two seasons (1998�99 and 1999�00) Arsenal played Champions League home matches at Wembley, which could house more than 70,000 spectators.

Final moments - the emotions run high in Highbury



Ashburton Grove 2007-present

Expansion of Highbury was restricted because the East Stand had been designated as a Grade II listed building and the other three stands were close to residential properties. These limitations have prevented the club from maximising the revenue that their domestic form could have brought in recent seasons. After considering various options, in 2000 Arsenal proposed building a new 60,000-seater stadium at Ashburton Grove, since renamed the Emirates Stadium, about 500 metres south-west of Highbury. The project was initially delayed by red tape and rising costs, but construction was completed in July 2006, in time for the start of the 2006�07 season. The stadium is named after its sponsors, the airline company Emirates, with whom the club signed the largest sponsorship deal in English football history, worth approximately �100 million; however some fans refer to the ground as Ashburton Grove, or the Grove, as they do not agree with corporate sponsorship of stadium names.The stadium will be officially known as Emirates Stadium until at least 2012, and the airline will be the club's shirt sponsor until the end of the 2013�14 season.

Construction and completion of the Ashburton Grove

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AW got 39M for Adebayor and Toure..good business..

^ hahahahha.... nice one! =)

Looks like Toure is set to leave. Our match against Man City will be mouth watering IMO. We play Man City in our 4th game of the season me thinks.

waa if we sign Hangeland..our defence would look pretty good i think
i mean yea theres no guarentee to a 100% success
but both vermaelen & hange, one of them experienced defender at dutch league..the other already establish himself in BPL...would bring us fresh defensive strengths

will see how it goes,

I am not sure Toure is good business. a lynch-pin, IMO I like the way he gets forward, having long shots and precise tackles. If Everton can hold out 30 Mil for lescott, Terry for 40, then Toure should be at least 30 too. Arsene should have raised the price more, judging by this yrs inflated market he really should.

Wenger has always been a great businessman! Hopefully with the injected cash he generates from the transfer market, there will be one or two more new faces to the squad! Then we are ready to challenge for the title!

toure is in his last year of his contract
£14Mil might be enough since Wenger bought Toure for merely £150,000
1 Question: Does Toure will get the standard "double-your-wages" at MC?

toure will receive 120K/week at eastlands..double from his Arsenal wages..

I dont understand abt tax that player have to pay, can anyone explain it
in terms of adebayor, when he's at Arsenal and at Man City, how much will he earn after tax?
Does this TAX become one of the reason player seeking for more money in terms of wages?

It is good business.
We got African Nation cup early next year and we sure don wan any of our african player come back injured or become shyt toure-style.
Now lets pray Man city have the same fate

Hope AW have it all plan out. Actually, now I'm hoping, if we do lose Toure(which seem to be closer and closer) at least AW can finally have a chance to replace one of the CB spot at least with a taller defender, hopefully. Plus, even with 6 CB last season, we were unable to cover for the spot last season when we lost Gallas and Toure, so I feel, there wont be any probz in getting another CB.

This post has been edited by jim18992: Jul 29 2009, 11:11 AM

what? we sold kolo? wth was arsene thinking of?? he was our last invincible

This post has been edited by kaka91: Jul 29 2009, 11:12 AM

BPL tax is highest than other league..50% if not my mistake...
other sportsman like lewis hamilton also live outside to avoid this tax..

i chose arshavin for the poll, but truth be told, i rather see dudu and nicky play together