Growing up in the USA, my sixth-grade teacher was a huge Arsenal fan and visited Highbury before it closed. He told me the stadium had a touch like Fenway and Wrigley.
Emirates is a state of the art stadium... And the people who are saying Highbury had soul which Emirates have not, we the fans are the real soul of Arsenal... Look how the team is performing when we put our souls in the stadium...
I still remember the old stadium and fell in love with it's patched together look, it always reminded me of the history of both the team and the stadium. the new stadium lacks a lot of the character that the old one had and looks like just any other mega stadium.
I've been an Arsenal fan since 1996...Yes Highbury was special it had a soul... But it was actually the fans that made the difference... Hope we all can get our trophy and keep competing for long... It's been a long time coming. COYG
Travelled around Ireland in December of 2007. Watched football every night in the hotels and became a fan of the EPL. Saw a guy wearing a "Fly Emirates" shirt and as an aviation buff, had to buy one. Found out it was Arsenal and been a fan ever since.
What a great video ❤️ I saw your video about A’s stadium on instagram and quickly came here to subscribe to your channel and surly I found you’ve made a video about my favorite soccer team. As a Arsenal fan I couldn’t agree more with you. Keep up the good work ✌🏻
Point of order: Far from the debt burden being removed, it has simply been refinanced and now stands at £260m. In addition, transfer debt is the highest in the PL (£180m) All from Arsenal’s published accounts.
YEs there were financial constraints .. however Arsene Wenger also squandered over 80 million on several bottom of heap players instead of signing 2 or 4 very good players.. Secondly the defense that Wenger inherited (at the beginning) was gone by the time we moved to the emirates .. and he was not able to purchase or develop any good defenders subsequently.. Thirdly Wenger was too nice/fatherly to the players which festered a culture of mediocrity
Over paying mediocre players such Bentner, these players took advantage of the situation. Right upto recently they were being over payed. Arteta got rid off these mercenaries and at least now the wage bill has come down allowing us to spend in the transfer market.
@@axro well and you can say AFC is one of the biggest teams in Europe /CL team that ended up not even good enough to play in Europe... The three league titles/FA cups (first 4-6 years) were due hat defense/culture that was inherited .. FA cups were good .. but Portsmouth Wigan and Leicester City won FA cups...Yipeee
@@Sai_Saracen 1) Wenger won his last League title 2004, almost eight years after he took over at Arsenal. Obviously Wenger benefited pretty long from the inheritance of George Graham; 2) Considering that Leicester City won the Premier League too, they are not a very good proof for your theory according to which crappy clubs can win the FA Cup.
Sai: Either your memory fails you or you have some need to rewrite history.. Arsène Wenger's 'Invincible team' were composed of Lehmann, Cole, Campbell, Toure, Lauren, Pires, Gilberto, Vieira, Ljungberg, Henry & Bergkamp + (Keown, Kanu, Wiltord, Reyes, Parlor, Edu, Clichy, Cygan, Aliadiere, Bentley and Hoyte) Of those above, George Graham had signed only Keown & Parlor..! ALL THE OTHERS WERE WENGER'S SIGNINGS.. Yes, Arsène had a terribly efficient Graham built team, espically the midfield/defence (not forgetting David Seaman)with whom he had his earliest titles, but not only did his training/diets/ discipline improve those players mentally but also prolonged their careers by at least 3 years on average. Look up the real history if you are not familiar with it.. I write this, who as a boy, actually watched games with George Graham THE PLAYER at Highbury and much later, learned about and had the fantastic luck to watch Arsène Wenger's successes at Monaco.. and believe me, at that time, I could only dream then, that he would one day manage my team.. When I watched a 17yr old Thierry Henry's first game, under Arsène, at Monaco.. George Graham was nowhere near that game wishing/hoping to buy Henry.. or even the other Wenger man.. Emmanuel Petit..!!
I loved the all seated North Bank built in 1993. I had a Season Ticket in the 1994/5 season. I used to talk to an old boy who attended matches there as a kid when Herbert Chapman was Manager in The 1930s. His knowledge was great and seen it all. Sadly these people are very few now. But still fans out there who remember the first Double in 1971 and Ray Kennedy‘s winner at Spurs to clinch The League.
Winning solves everything. As simple as that. The stadium was broken-in with a significant run of incompetency both on and off the field. Things seemed to have stabilized since. Good to see Tottenham now taking on the piss-poor mantle at their 1 billion dollar toilet bowl stadium, as well as relying not only on poor football but NFL, concerts, Go-karting and other things that don't matter as their main strategy to earn their money back. It truly is the history of the Tottenham.
Never they should leave Highbury, because Highbourry was an icon, has a soul and intimity. Tipical english/british classical stadium, with special atmosphere That gave the stentgh to the team, Arhitectonic masterpiece, Art Deco style . There were possibilities to grade it up and bigger. The new stadium is without soul, an instant steryl, stereotip stadium like many others today, like and egg with video walls like in a shopping centre. Greetings from the Balkans
The problem was the economical crysis from 2007.....interest rates went up and no one had cash to buy the apartments from Highbury combined with the land for emirates bought like 3 times more expensive.....that was the reason they sold players each year.....always the best players.
That is incorrect. The Emirates project was mothballed for 12mths after banks withdrew their funding. This was after the club had started to decontaminate the old refuse site and therefore, the land had already been acquired (via a highly controversial and bitter CPO) long before any economic crisis. The problem actually stems from poor directorship at the club namely, Keith Edelman. He ‘negotiated’ an embarrassingly poor, lowball sponsorship agreement with Emirates which handcuffed the club for 15yrs. Why? Because (see above) the banks pulled out and left a huge black hole in the finance. Not long after, Edelman was sacked; a reflection of his inability to retain the confidence of the City and his inability to defend the commercial position of Arsenal. The properties built on the vacated Highbury site actually sold very well and served to provide a one-off wind fall receipt; initially quite significant (tens of £millions) before tapering to more modest sums as less units remained. Indeed, it is probably the most successful component of the whole project. The ‘reason players were sold’ was due to the fact Wenger opted to build a cash reserve which equalled the debt owed. This gave rise to the myth that “the debt has been paid off” when it never had been. That cash reserve was subsequently plundered when Arsenal slipped out of the top 4 and chose to gamble on acquiring dross like Pepe for £72m; and offering Ozil and Auba £350k/wk contracts to buy their loyalty. Sadly I’m one of those weirdos who remembers everything.
@@imconfused1237like it or not, I think we are in a better financially place because of Arsene shrewdness, Manchester United are the complete opposite imo
I never went to Highbury so I cannot say much about it. But Emirates stadium was needed if arsenal was to be taken seriously as a "big" club. Highbury although memorable would have required a lot of work to get it to compete with modern stadiums.
I've been to many games at the Emirates. It's a decent stadium. I do still miss Highbury, though. The old style football stadiums always had a better atmosphere.
Interesting history, but the financial assessments seem overly simplified, and arguable at best. Stadium revenue is not the key driver of a big club's financial health. Also, it's unclear how "sound" Arsenal's condition is today. This video should have examined how the 2008 real estate recession affected Arsenal finances, and how Arsenal had become a real estate company first, and a football club second during the building of Emirates. This had an enormous opportunity cost as they failed to expand their global marketing program like Liverpool, United, and other big clubs. Sponsorship income for the big clubs far outpace their stadium revenue. Arsenal has just recently closed the gap in this area.
While I 100 percent agree with your statements I also think it's important to add context to the situation ,you had a russian oligarch washing his corruption money at chelsea and a oil state diversifying their petro dollars in manchester this made the league even harder
Arsenal will Never be the same Moving to Emirates stadium was a Huge error Arsenal were at the top of European and English football before leaving Highbury
The stadium was built with the possibility of expansion however It is difficult to achieve the expansion, the local council will reject the plan unless the club renovate the Underground station to accommodate at least 200 more trains for the extra 20K capacity.
Little Brexiteer mate... It's not even a real English name unless it's Woolwich-on-Thames-upon-tweed-in-England-in-Europe-upon-straffordchestershire-on-planet-Earth.
Arsenal lost sole when they were selling of top players like Henry viera pires than fabregas van persi nasri Nothing to do with stadium as its only half a kilometer away from Highbury infact they are lucky to have got a space within Islington itself in London that area would have gone if arsenal delayed with spaces so limited in around London. Just look at Chelsea they can't expand plus can't find a suitable area to build a new stadium plus will cost anything more than a billion in today's Market
Actually, man, and I say this will respect for your efforts, and as a neo-Yank (I grew up on both sides of the pond) your video isn't very good (though decent visuals and pacing). You failed to answer the question in the title. At all. (False advertising much?) Had you done enough research (easily found on youtube) you'd know that the financing costs of the stadium gutted the teams finances for a decade, gutted the soul of their homeground, (God I miss Highbury; it was special (like Fenway Park) and I find the Emirates a bit shite, and meh) yet ultimately the corporate boxes alone brought in more money on a given day than Highbury did. Which was the main reason they built the bloody thing in the first - also something you failed to mention. It's one of the big reasons they now have the financial clout to compete. (Also not mentioned in your vid.) I'm not giving you shit, bud. But if you want to have a good channel and/or a good following, do a professional job. That's all I'm saying. A for Effort. But far from a cigar. I hope you understand I'm trying to help. Tough love - its what's for breakfast in America.
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When moving stadiums, it takes time to truly make it feel like home
Even Wenger admitted that "Arsenal lost a little bit of its soul" when they moved to Emirates Stadium. Highbury was a special experience.
4 FA Cups?
@@scorelineupdate12913 titles, 10 fa cups, 2 league cups and a european cup winners cup ?
Growing up in the USA, my sixth-grade teacher was a huge Arsenal fan and visited Highbury before it closed. He told me the stadium had a touch like Fenway and Wrigley.
@@zenkaiforms at the Emirates you dinlo
They lost from soul and lost a lot pf fans (like me)
Emirates is a state of the art stadium... And the people who are saying Highbury had soul which Emirates have not, we the fans are the real soul of Arsenal... Look how the team is performing when we put our souls in the stadium...
And what have we won at the Emirates? How about NOTHING.
I still remember the old stadium and fell in love with it's patched together look, it always reminded me of the history of both the team and the stadium. the new stadium lacks a lot of the character that the old one had and looks like just any other mega stadium.
I've been an Arsenal fan since 1996...Yes Highbury was special it had a soul... But it was actually the fans that made the difference... Hope we all can get our trophy and keep competing for long... It's been a long time coming. COYG
4 FA Cups?
We top of the league with ten games to go ❤
@@riofarai6928 just play for 0-0 Bore at Man city and title yours
yes, since we moved to the emirates weve had so many corporate fans who aren't too bothered about atmosphere. bit of a shame
what content for 1st youtube video, way to go man :) keep working hard :) sun will be brighter one day :)
Travelled around Ireland in December of 2007. Watched football every night in the hotels and became a fan of the EPL. Saw a guy wearing a "Fly Emirates" shirt and as an aviation buff, had to buy one. Found out it was Arsenal and been a fan ever since.
Quality content! Keep up the good work!
once a gunner always a gunner , great content you earned your self a subscriber
Nicely done! Great content.
Same for Tottenham and White Heart Lane but wow their new stadium is something special.
Hopefully for Everton it goes well having a new stadium
What a great video ❤️
I saw your video about A’s stadium on instagram and quickly came here to subscribe to your channel and surly I found you’ve made a video about my favorite soccer team.
As a Arsenal fan I couldn’t agree more with you.
Keep up the good work ✌🏻
Thank you ! 🙌
Really interesting! Keep going!
nice vid. you deserve more attention
Point of order: Far from the debt burden being removed, it has simply been refinanced and now stands at £260m. In addition, transfer debt is the highest in the PL (£180m)
All from Arsenal’s published accounts.
YEs there were financial constraints .. however Arsene Wenger also squandered over 80 million on several bottom of heap players instead of signing 2 or 4 very good players.. Secondly the defense that Wenger inherited (at the beginning) was gone by the time we moved to the emirates .. and he was not able to purchase or develop any good defenders subsequently.. Thirdly Wenger was too nice/fatherly to the players which festered a culture of mediocrity
That sounds like Wenger is a quite poor manager. I wonder where his three League and seven FA Cup titles came from. Did he inherit them too?
Over paying mediocre players such Bentner, these players took advantage of the situation. Right upto recently they were being over payed. Arteta got rid off these mercenaries and at least now the wage bill has come down allowing us to spend in the transfer market.
@@axro well and you can say AFC is one of the biggest teams in Europe /CL team that ended up not even good enough to play in Europe... The three league titles/FA cups (first 4-6 years) were due hat defense/culture that was inherited .. FA cups were good .. but Portsmouth Wigan and Leicester City won FA cups...Yipeee
@@Sai_Saracen 1) Wenger won his last League title 2004, almost eight years after he took over at Arsenal. Obviously Wenger benefited pretty long from the inheritance of George Graham; 2) Considering that Leicester City won the Premier League too, they are not a very good proof for your theory according to which crappy clubs can win the FA Cup.
Sai:
Either your memory fails you or you have some need to rewrite history..
Arsène Wenger's 'Invincible team' were composed of Lehmann, Cole, Campbell, Toure, Lauren, Pires, Gilberto, Vieira, Ljungberg, Henry & Bergkamp + (Keown, Kanu, Wiltord, Reyes, Parlor, Edu, Clichy, Cygan, Aliadiere, Bentley and Hoyte) Of those above, George Graham had signed only Keown & Parlor..! ALL THE OTHERS WERE WENGER'S SIGNINGS..
Yes, Arsène had a terribly efficient Graham built team, espically the midfield/defence (not forgetting David Seaman)with whom he had his earliest titles, but not only did his training/diets/ discipline improve those players mentally but also prolonged their careers by at least 3 years on average. Look up the real history if you are not familiar with it..
I write this, who as a boy, actually watched games with George Graham THE PLAYER at Highbury and much later, learned about and had the fantastic luck to watch Arsène Wenger's successes at Monaco.. and believe me, at that time, I could only dream then, that he would one day manage my team..
When I watched a 17yr old Thierry Henry's first game, under Arsène, at Monaco..
George Graham was nowhere near that game wishing/hoping to buy Henry.. or even the other Wenger man.. Emmanuel Petit..!!
I loved the all seated North Bank built in 1993. I had a Season Ticket in the 1994/5 season. I used to talk to an old boy who attended matches there as a kid when Herbert Chapman was Manager in The 1930s. His knowledge was great and seen it all. Sadly these people are very few now. But still fans out there who remember the first Double in 1971 and Ray Kennedy‘s winner at Spurs to clinch The League.
Brilliant video!
That why i love arsene wenger and arsenal🖤
You don't say the second W in Woolwich.
Winning solves everything. As simple as that.
The stadium was broken-in with a significant run of incompetency both on and off the field. Things seemed to have stabilized since.
Good to see Tottenham now taking on the piss-poor mantle at their 1 billion dollar toilet bowl stadium, as well as relying not only on poor football but NFL, concerts, Go-karting and other things that don't matter as their main strategy to earn their money back.
It truly is the history of the Tottenham.
Agreed
Hopefully, just hopefully someday i will be able to go there....
@SIR CHUKS ARSENAL TV
Just a suggestion, we need some bit of history about Arsenal sometime. It will help fuel our love for the club.
you have to acknowledge the fact that Highbury had smaller size pitch, which allowed Arsenal players to have a slightly more home field advantage.
Never they should leave Highbury, because Highbourry was an icon, has a soul and intimity. Tipical english/british classical stadium, with special atmosphere That gave the stentgh to the team, Arhitectonic masterpiece, Art Deco style . There were possibilities to grade it up and bigger. The new stadium is without soul, an instant steryl, stereotip stadium like many others today, like and egg with video walls like in a shopping centre. Greetings from the Balkans
I know they've should of just upgraded it
We had to leave. The area was too small to increase the capacity
@@Aaron-og8lv did you even watch the video
@@game1414 there was enough space. If they did really want to, there were some solutions
@@sebbelebb yes about no room for development
The problem was the economical crysis from 2007.....interest rates went up and no one had cash to buy the apartments from Highbury combined with the land for emirates bought like 3 times more expensive.....that was the reason they sold players each year.....always the best players.
That is incorrect. The Emirates project was mothballed for 12mths after banks withdrew their funding. This was after the club had started to decontaminate the old refuse site and therefore, the land had already been acquired (via a highly controversial and bitter CPO) long before any economic crisis.
The problem actually stems from poor directorship at the club namely, Keith Edelman. He ‘negotiated’ an embarrassingly poor, lowball sponsorship agreement with Emirates which handcuffed the club for 15yrs. Why? Because (see above) the banks pulled out and left a huge black hole in the finance. Not long after, Edelman was sacked; a reflection of his inability to retain the confidence of the City and his inability to defend the commercial position of Arsenal.
The properties built on the vacated Highbury site actually sold very well and served to provide a one-off wind fall receipt; initially quite significant (tens of £millions) before tapering to more modest sums as less units remained. Indeed, it is probably the most successful component of the whole project.
The ‘reason players were sold’ was due to the fact Wenger opted to build a cash reserve which equalled the debt owed. This gave rise to the myth that “the debt has been paid off” when it never had been. That cash reserve was subsequently plundered when Arsenal slipped out of the top 4 and chose to gamble on acquiring dross like Pepe for £72m; and offering Ozil and Auba £350k/wk contracts to buy their loyalty.
Sadly I’m one of those weirdos who remembers everything.
@@imconfused1237like it or not, I think we are in a better financially place because of Arsene shrewdness, Manchester United are the complete opposite imo
Getting closer... COYG!
We are doing it as we speak ❤
Its prounced woo-lich😂😂
But great content
So I've learned 😅
I never went to Highbury so I cannot say much about it. But Emirates stadium was needed if arsenal was to be taken seriously as a "big" club. Highbury although memorable would have required a lot of work to get it to compete with modern stadiums.
I've been to many games at the Emirates. It's a decent stadium. I do still miss Highbury, though. The old style football stadiums always had a better atmosphere.
Got a sub from me dude great content keep it up
Please do video on newcastle united and Celtic fc thank
Interesting history, but the financial assessments seem overly simplified, and arguable at best. Stadium revenue is not the key driver of a big club's financial health. Also, it's unclear how "sound" Arsenal's condition is today. This video should have examined how the 2008 real estate recession affected Arsenal finances, and how Arsenal had become a real estate company first, and a football club second during the building of Emirates. This had an enormous opportunity cost as they failed to expand their global marketing program like Liverpool, United, and other big clubs. Sponsorship income for the big clubs far outpace their stadium revenue. Arsenal has just recently closed the gap in this area.
While I 100 percent agree with your statements I also think it's important to add context to the situation ,you had a russian oligarch washing his corruption money at chelsea and a oil state diversifying their petro dollars in manchester this made the league even harder
Games the game
💯 External factors have affected many teams
We morphed from Arsenal aka the Gunners, into FC Stagefright aka The Bottlers.
Ooh how time flies. What do y'all think about our home at the carpet now? All hail Gaffer Mikel Arteta for switching on the lights.
Why i feel Everton is next 👀👀
In terms of comparison ... It will took another 93 years to do that. But of course, Arsenal FC never was the same after highbury
when you play against liverpool, you're also playing against anfield. to me the emirates is just soulless
“Wool witch”…stop it mate!
It’s a silent w…”Wool Itch”
Tottenham are N London, Woolwich (can't say the name) 😂 are S London
Does this American person know arsenal are top dog today.
They've bottled two leagues in a row to 155 Charges FC
Woolwich is pronounced WOOL - ITCH the second w is totally silent. Otherwise very good.
no one cares When Woolwich was in Kent
Arsenal will Never be the same
Moving to Emirates stadium was a Huge error
Arsenal were at the top of European and English football before leaving Highbury
If you didn't move you would still be playing in a tin pot stadium
The introduction to the Emirates was certainly a rude wake up call
Funny thing is stadium not big enough easy needs another 20k
Was going to say the exact same thing
The stadium was built with the possibility of expansion however It is difficult to achieve the expansion, the local council will reject the plan unless the club renovate the Underground station to accommodate at least 200 more trains for the extra 20K capacity.
@@Ateem87Wouldn't that affect the whole Piccadilly Line and not just Arsenal station
nice vid man +1 for the algo
Bro said wool-wich
It’s pronounced “wool-ich
Little Brexiteer mate... It's not even a real English name unless it's Woolwich-on-Thames-upon-tweed-in-England-in-Europe-upon-straffordchestershire-on-planet-Earth.
Anyone for a prawn sandwich?
Wool widge 😂😂
Woolwhich its pronounced woolich not
#KroenkeOut
built earlier than said and under budget........... more can be said about spurs stadium 🤣
Arsenal lost sole when they were selling of top players like Henry viera pires than fabregas van persi nasri
Nothing to do with stadium as its only half a kilometer away from Highbury infact they are lucky to have got a space within Islington itself in London that area would have gone if arsenal delayed with spaces so limited in around London.
Just look at Chelsea they can't expand plus can't find a suitable area to build a new stadium plus will cost anything more than a billion in today's Market
Actually, man, and I say this will respect for your efforts, and as a neo-Yank (I grew up on both sides of the pond) your video isn't very good (though decent visuals and pacing). You failed to answer the question in the title. At all. (False advertising much?) Had you done enough research (easily found on youtube) you'd know that the financing costs of the stadium gutted the teams finances for a decade, gutted the soul of their homeground, (God I miss Highbury; it was special (like Fenway Park) and I find the Emirates a bit shite, and meh) yet ultimately the corporate boxes alone brought in more money on a given day than Highbury did. Which was the main reason they built the bloody thing in the first - also something you failed to mention. It's one of the big reasons they now have the financial clout to compete. (Also not mentioned in your vid.)
I'm not giving you shit, bud. But if you want to have a good channel and/or a good following, do a professional job. That's all I'm saying. A for Effort. But far from a cigar.
I hope you understand I'm trying to help. Tough love - its what's for breakfast in America.
London is Blue
Nah I’m never watching this channel again, embarrassing when most of the video is inaccurate