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This post has been edited by kimhoong: Apr 1 2010, 07:03 PM

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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This post has been edited by kimhoong: Mar 10 2010, 12:16 PM

Some photo sharing dedicated for Ramsey's injury

This post has been edited by kimhoong: Mar 10 2010, 06:14 AM

yeahh!!!!

YAHOO!!

Post your match analysis or review here

first vote!clichy for me.i just love his pace and breaking the opponent's right winger's heart.yes,he had some bad patch but seems to me he's picking up his strength back.

in!

new thread... new life! let's hope this thread will be full of joy like the last one.

worth waiting worth watching!

Regarding the poll options, there's a limitation of 15 options only. So I just put in those who has played more (according to http://www.arsenal.com/first-team/first-team-stats )

This post has been edited by kimhoong: Mar 10 2010, 06:20 AM

Voted for my RvP in the poll,lethal,can create and score goals,fiery and passionate..the only downside is he was always cursed with unlucky injuries.

The match was just superb!It's been a while since we last trash opponents by 5 goals margin!

Off topic-was going to buy the Arsenal away jersey later on,between Vermaelen and Nasri which one is a better choice to print on ah?Kinda torn between them..or maybe I just put another RvP..haha!

5-0, ah what a nice scoreline to wake up to

Thought I could wake up for the match but turned out I was too tired and slept through the whole match

Nevertheless, a good win and a major boost for the lads

the referee console the Porto keeper right? sort of asked him to relax abit....

kesian him...

agree2.the ref even shake hand with Helton(Porto GK) before Bendtner penalty.i never saw any referee done that.

from the moment the goalkeeper kena sepak kepala i kesian oredi..

go with Vermy.

Somehow, I felt abit weird that Eboue has this unusual seriousness of him in celebrating goal...Hope he's not thinking about other club tho.

err..dis is his last season with us rite?