Het grote ARSENAL topic #11: Farewell to Highbury. :{

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Op zaterdag 6 mei 2006 01:31 schreef venomsnake het volgende:
God wat is dat toch doodzonde dat zulke mooie stadions vervangen worden.
Highbury ademt gewoon voetbal.


Kut naam heeft dat nieuwe stadion trouwens ''emirates stadium'' Ashburton Grove

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Op zaterdag 6 mei 2006 01:41 schreef venomsnake het volgende:
''Ashburton Grove'' word dat de officiele naam?

Zoiets gaat dat er dus uitzien.

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De officieuze maar zo zal het wel door de supporters genoemd gaan worden.

Ik weiger dat E-woord over mijn lippen te laten glijden.

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Op zaterdag 6 mei 2006 01:43 schreef fanneke het volgende:

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hetzelfde als nu gebeurde met Highbury, wat ook niet de officiële naam is.

I know maar je ziet het overal eik dat er iets anders wordt verzonnen om de sponsornaam te laten verdwijnen.

Heb jij de Vliert ooit Ecco Stadion genoemd...?

The Times May 06, 2006


Highbury will be the real star, win or lose, fourth or fifth
By Catherine Riley

Our correspondent is given a guided tour of the ground that will stage its final match before Arsenal move home


THE only sound in Ken Friar’s office at Highbury is the whirr of the air-conditioning unit, which sits incongruously in this most traditional of settings next to the heavy desk used by Herbert Chapman. “You’ll like this,” Friar says, pulling out a sheet of paper. It is a copy of Arsenal’s accounts from 1944-45, when travelling, training and kit washing expenses were, at £1,610 17s and 4d, a little more than £400 in excess of the players’ wages that season.
If Highbury is home to anyone, it is to Friar. He joined the club in 1950 “as fourteenth assistant to the box-office assistant” and, after stepping down as managing director in 2000, was charged with overseeing Arsenal’s move to Ashburton Grove from the stadium they have played in since 1913. He, more than anyone, must have been aware of the importance of getting it right.



“It’s more than home to me,” he says as we walk round the ground. “I was conscious of the history of the club and its traditions, and it would have been very sad to lose that. We are taking many things and a great deal of the existing design from the Thirties has been recreated.

“When I first came we had a capacity in excess of 65,000 with only about 8,000 seats. There were no screens and no advertising, because there was no television coverage. We had no sponsors. It’s changed a bit.”

And then there is the famously small pitch, which even at the end of the season is looking remarkably green. Although plots are being sold off, when the redevelopment into housing is complete the entire pitch area will be gardens. “It is all going to be landscaped and the East and West Stands will be retained, but with glass façades. It will look magnificent.”

Did he not fancy buying a flat — perhaps one that will occupy the site of his office? “Well, yes, and some of us did try to buy flats, but we found we needed to get shareholders’ permission — even though we weren’t going to get them at a discount. We are all going to buy a few mementoes from the auction — I am buying things for my grandchildren. We are not ashamed of the history of the club, which I have tried to preserve over all these years.”

We walk through the small car park, where Friar pauses to say hello to Charlie George. “This area used to be a training pitch, with a goalpost at the far end. We had a ‘shooting-in box’ with slanted walls, so the ball would always come back at a different angle. The shop never existed — that was done in the late Sixties. There just wasn’t the demand for things then.”

In the famous entrance hall, a temporary wall is filling up with signatures from figures in the club’s history. “I’m not sure what will happen to it,” Friar says. He is also unsure about the design of his new office, as if it is the last thing on his to-do list.

As we move at a clip through the corridors, Friar apologises as we step around piles of boxes. The need to move to a bigger stadium is not simply a matter of maximising crowd and corporate revenue, but also a matter of operational logistics. “We are completely out of space — 300 people work here now,” Friar says.

Back in his office, he gets out a book from his desk drawer. This also contains signatures, but these go back to the Thirties. It is the VIP guest book. The first entry reads simply Edward (VIII) and the pages are a curious roll call, from Harold Lloyd to Prince Charles via Nye Bevan, the Shah of Persia and Joe Frazier.

“There will be a few tears shed here on the last day, but it’s not as if we are moving into a slum dwelling,” Friar says. Just a tear? He smiles. “I’ll be sobbing my heart out. I think we all will. But you can’t continue to live in the past. We are extremely proud of the club’s history and we can continue that in a new home, can’t we?”

www.thestadium-highbury.com

Tering,wat een raar seizoen.

Je draaide gewoon het slechtste seizoen sinds 7-8 jaaren toch voelt deze 4e plek vele malen lekkerder dan bv. het kampioenschap in 2002 voor mij persoonlijk.
Komt wsl omdat ik het een seizoen van dichtbij heb mogen meemaken waardoor je dingen toch veel anders beleeft.
Had het iig voor geen goud willen missen dit seizoen met zoveel mooie momenten.
Misschien dat we het over een jaar of 2,3 nog eens overdoen.

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Op maandag 8 mei 2006 04:02 schreef F1Bas het volgende:

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Hoogtepunt moet nog komen

yup,maar dat staat natuurlijk los van het competitiegebeuren

Uit het vorige Arsenal topic;

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Op zondag 23 april 2006 12:03 schreef DiegoArmandoMaradona het volgende:
Veel succes volgend jaar in de UEFA Cup

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Op maandag 8 mei 2006 12:17 schreef ruud_fr het volgende:
waar was jij zaterdagavond trouwens DG?
toch niet in de keuken van White Hart Lane he?