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This post has been edited by kimhoong: Apr 13 2010, 09:37 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 189495), 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 199394 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 (199899 and 199900) 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 200607 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 201314 season.

Construction and completion of the Ashburton Grove

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Some posts from previous thread:

1st post!

Looks like nothing is in the balance of Arsenal's hand now. No thanks to countless of injuries, if Arsenal did survived Nou Camp and turn out to be the winner history will be made.

But now move on to the next match eh?

song must play at midfield so we can break barca momentum going forward

welcome to new thread..good comeback by our players..next leg we can win the game even without our general..

wow...new thread~

ashravin injured?

ytea..3 weeks..gg

yeah, out for 3 weeks. We can complain abt our injuries all we want, but Man U and Chels also has their own problem.

So, forget abt AA, wish Cesc get well soon, pray Gallas a new man next season, we just march on with what we have. This is where we proof our worthiness.....

If we cannot go through at Nou Camp, at least give our best fight and come back with Pride.

btw, goals and highlight of the champions league match:

http://www.goalvideo.net/champions-league/...-2-2-barcelona/

2 goals by Zlatan Ibrahimovic were just brilliant! How we gunners hope we have this kind of finisher in our team. Damn miss henry now....

Almunia actually had a great game. He might take part of the responsibile on the. But I would say Thomas Vermaelen should be the 1 who need to take the full responsibility. He payed too much focus on Messi, and created too much space for Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

Our captain seems not hurt that bad. Hopefully Nasri can steps in. Nasri is another guy who played very well. Love this guy.

I am not really worry about Cesc's absent. The team ECL away record I think is one of the best even against the peak of man utd last season we only manage to concede one goal.

I am concern with who will replace Gallas. AW cannot deploy Campbell because we have to play offside trap against Barca. Sol clearly does not have the pace to do that. Song need to be in the middle to burst forward. The team only can rely on Silvestre.

Firstly, and for once, i do not blame Almunia on this match. The first goal he looked stupid to come out and got chipped. But he dun come out, Ibra could easily muscle Song off and have an easy shot on goal. He was hoping for Song to keep him tap for a while longer allow him to close in.
The second- there is none a keeper could do which such a strike.
Thirdly, the number of saves he done, i doubt many of it was luck. if he were any less impressive, we would had conceded 4 or 5.

Henry... nah, i dun miss him that much. He was great, i idolized him.
Would he make any different if he stayed with us? Unlikely.
His performance last nite, simply remind me of his last season with us- in which he was over his peak.

He always wanted to get the ball and carry the team alone, but physically and technically just could not out-do new generations of defenders.
We need a good finisher, no doubt- the likes of RvP, and the supposedly effective AA and NB52.

It's Pep's job to play whoever that he deems suitable, and he probably was hoping Titi can perform some magic at that stage. It's hard to say whether Titi really mucked around due to his Arsenal sentiments or he's merely losing it (or both), but for a player of his calibre and who has won everything, he doesn't need to prove anything anymore.

The old #14 will always remain in our hearts... the new #14 however, showed us what he can do and if he scores the winning goal in Nou Camp he'd ascend straight to legendary status.

We do. He was brilliant for the first 3 months... and has been crocked ever since. Note that Ibra also missed quite a lot in the first half where they tore us apart.

Manny was brilliant, if anything it showed that Song-Vermy does not work. In fact, Song looked lost as a CB. I don't think Silvestre will instill much faith either so signing Sol might prove to be vital after all. Will the aging Sol be ready to take on Ibra once again? I'm not sure about technical ability but if Sol plays he'll be fully committed after opening the scoring and losing the final in 06.

This post has been edited by StarGhazzer: Apr 1 2010, 08:12 PM

Yes , Wolves first . Like The Professor said , 1 game at a time .