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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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Ex-Gunners:

Gentlemen, start your engine !

in!

Any team news ? cant wait for the match

not goin out to watch today, at home on channel 832 HD !!!

@bro kimhoong.. add my name please

C'MON YOU GUNNERS!!!!!!

come on gunners!!!

reporting in .. GO GO GO!!

astro b.yond? wahh.. so syiookk

done

GO GUNNERS!! Which channel you guys watch on sopcast? Been looking for YES [EN] but not there

funnyTONE reporting! I'm at my local mamak,drawing cheers for the Gunners. Dear God, pls save Vermaelen tonite.

if we win this games.. titles is ours!!

don't be so cocky la.. aityer.. it's one step closer...

anyway this streaming kinda good

http://hqsportz.net/chan1.html

Channel - 81774

i cant view YES as of lately.. i watch fsc - 81774

81774 is so far so good to me

wow.. my heart so dub..dubb..

Flying tackles, multiple yellows (and a couple of reds?), etc etc...

ARE YOU GUYS READY ??? !!!

Our players are !

same for me bro kimhoong add me to the list:)

WERE READY TO TRASH!!!

arshhaavinn.. noo

ARSHA!!!! AIYOOOO!!!!!

good luck guys!!!!

Greedy fella... Early ball in to the right channel and Rosicky would have been clear...

anybody got any tvants link?

can't access myp2p

This post has been edited by Gr3yL3gion: Feb 1 2010, 12:05 AM

done

Kimhoong bro add me to the list as well
go arsenal!!

hehe.. i like rosicky...

No ENG channel for tvants.

Maybe you can try this [Taiwan]:

tvants://list.tvants.com/tvants/?k=81c572d57c2e82bb6a57a214e3872344

Oh shii...that almost gave me a scare. Gila la darren.

no no no

done

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Added on February 1, 2010, 12:12 amMU is pushing hard

This post has been edited by kimhoong: Feb 1 2010, 12:12 AM

arshavinnnn... oooo

pass the ball la arshavin..sigh

go go gunners...

bullsh*it la NANI!

u guys' streaming is too fast for mine to catch up

I better stay off from the thread until half time break

Go go go, Arsenal !

ouch! Stud by song. Gotta hurt liek hell.

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Added on February 1, 2010, 12:20 amFisrt free kick. Easy save by vds.

This post has been edited by funnyTONE: Feb 1 2010, 12:20 AM

oooooo..ermmm

arshavin trying to setup for later kot.. later they def will surround him and then.. pass

waw, fabregas upper strengt is very impressive. He can handle scholes quite easily.

arshavin is spoiling the mood ..

any link to watch live?

Dangerous! Man utd are very, very dangerous near the box. Thx god Gallas was at the right time.

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Added on February 1, 2010, 12:33 amThat's weird. When Song was dribbling towards the goal, no one tried to intercept him. If that was diaby, he'd sure shoot a curl.

This post has been edited by funnyTONE: Feb 1 2010, 12:33 AM

what!!! how come??

darn!

alamak...

own goal by keeper.. keep going goons!!

Fcuk Almunia.

Sorry but FCUK him.

omg, clever flick by nani. Impossible angle summore. But then, its registered ad own goal by almunia.

http://www.sports-stream.travel2ohrid.com/

skill and a luck ...

haih..but this goal cnt blame anyone...ATM, arshavin din rly perform...selfish...

clichy still a bit slow due to juz return from injury...

man u running us tiredly!!

last match, own goal, now another own goal.................

babbeeyy btoll laa!!!!

aarrrghhhhh

we are more like an away team instead... haiz...

Yawnnnn!!!

Night guys.

OMG...............WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING!!!!

wat the heck is happening??

That was fcuking Denilson's man. FCUK ALMUNIA AND FCUK DENILSON.

We will never win with these two in the team.

swt. 2nd goal by rooney. Gallas left behind at vds. No wonder no one jaga him.

champions league last year rsult haunting us!!

Almunia and Denilson = epic fail.

I rather have Mannone and Ramsey anytime.

And Arshavin he misses everything to do eh ?

haih...time to slp now

wtf denilson, he joggin while everyone running. track rooney la stupid fellow !!!! damn stupid denilson !!!

omfg .. this is not looking good.. MU is a lot sharper than us

lolz,,,well...how to fight la...see arsenal attack like shit..fabregas where enough to fight with rooney..No matter how hard they strike,arsenal attack just totally not strong enough to win MU. just like malaysia impossible can win braxil..

Really la, wanna quite being a supporter after our team is down? C'mom la..

ok good night,tomorrow will be hard.

i dowan sleep just yet ... night still young la u guys ..

how to face chelsi and liverpool?? not dis season.. hope champions league more brighter!

if continue this condition with weak defending, ft score sure is 0-4

I'm no manager really. And I'm no Beandy or Casnova or whatever.

But its plain for everyone to see what our problem is. We attack through the middle. We can't defend on the wings.

Look at how we tippy-tappy around the penalty box. Even a backup pair in Brown and Evans have got nothing to fear!

Let's hope we dont start hitting the panic buttons. We've been humiliated in the past by MU

denilson should have be MORE ALERT with his surroundings !!! then we could not trail by two goals ..


now .. can we SCORE? Go go goooo

hope for spirit again standard leige and bolton!

wtf je denilson..haih

I'm predicting Bendtner to come in immediately at the 2nd half. Denilson off and out of the first XI for the foreseable future I hope...

come on gunners..............get your guns ready and shoot the devils

ada chance lagi, dun quit on arsenal yet guys !!!

buyy buyy buyy!!

let's pray for Arsenal comeback.

we not quiter! but cant watch anymore.. ehehe..

i am so farking frustrated with almunia and denilson

Why suddenly so many glory hunters tonight? sTFU n go to sleep la. Man utd thread is the other way.

zz..imposible got chance to win back la..can draw also super miracle ady example MU got red card.

praying for better 2nd half!!

already two goals for 1st half for MU... haihhhhhhhh.....

denilson's been poor, i wonder why he's running slowly when MU is on the counter. Half time and another 45 minutes to go, COME ON ARSENAL! COME ON ARSENAL!

Arsenal doesnt produce clear cut chance maybe because there are no natural striker and the player is physically smaller. But West Brown pairing with Jonathan Evans i think Arsenal can score more goals in the 2nd half.