first experience of the Emirate Stadium

[maZu]

hey all

new to the forum and new in the area... just moved here from Sydney Australia.
had my first experience of the emirates stadium over the weekend.. went to the emirates cup with some mates

great stadium to watch a game at... we had good seats on the 2nd level near the halfway line
shame about the result but it was a pleasure to watch arsenal live for the first time in my life... hopefully ill have a chance to check out some EPL games this season..


ive become a red member with arsenal so hopefully i can pick up some tickets from the arsenal shop or here

see you all around

[Red Snapper]

Welcome cobber, to everything! One thing though; try to call it Ashburton Grove or just The Arsenal .
(oh and "EPL" grates a bit too!!).

[maZu]

Welcome cobber, to everything! One thing though; try to call it Ashburton Grove or just The Arsenal .
(oh and "EPL" grates a bit too!!).

haha thanks mate... ill keep that in mind next time i post something up

[REB]

welcome to the forum,

lovely ground full of tourists who sit there and say nothing , the mexican waves

[Eboue-Why?]

And to keep in line with every other Aussie, can you begin every frikkin sentence with 'Yeah look..........'

[Gunner Rob]

I am impressed that you went to the Emirates Cup and still want to go back.

any game you go to from now on will be an improvement on what you saw on Sunday.

[DB10GOONER]

hey all

new to the forum and new in the area... just moved here from Sydney Australia.
had my first experience of the emirates stadium over the weekend.. went to the emirates cup with some mates

great stadium to watch a game at... we had good seats on the 2nd level near the halfway line
shame about the result but it was a pleasure to watch arsenal live for the first time in my life... hopefully ill have a chance to check out some EPL games this season..


ive become a red member with arsenal so hopefully i can pick up some tickets from the arsenal shop or here

see you all around

Welcome on board mate - just ignore all the gloomy fuckers on here. I do - and I agree with most of them on most topics!

I think alot of us that grew up with classic old style football grounds (never stadiums, always grounds) don't really like the new corporate, user-friendly stadia with good facilities, decent sight lines and comfortable seating. Those things were seldom part of alot of our match day experiences and were never an important part of the day.

For someone going to the Conglomerates for the first time I could see how they would be impressed as, in and of itself, is an impressive stadium. But not for football. Highbury was the ground for football.

[cameron326]

hey all

new to the forum and new in the area... just moved here from Sydney Australia.
had my first experience of the emirates stadium over the weekend.. went to the emirates cup with some mates

great stadium to watch a game at... we had good seats on the 2nd level near the halfway line
shame about the result but it was a pleasure to watch arsenal live for the first time in my life... hopefully ill have a chance to check out some EPL games this season..


ive become a red member with arsenal so hopefully i can pick up some tickets from the arsenal shop or here

see you all around

Welcome on board mate - just ignore all the gloomy fuckers on here. I do - and I agree with most of them on most topics!

I think alot of us that grew up with classic old style football grounds (never stadiums, always grounds) don't really like the new corporate, user-friendly stadia with good facilities, decent sight lines and comfortable seating. Those things were seldom part of alot of our match day experiences and were never an important part of the day.

For someone going to the Conglomerates for the first time I could see how they would be impressed as, in and of itself, is an impressive stadium. But not for football. Highbury was the ground for football.

Get a season ticket between a couple of fatties - that will resolve the comfortable seating and sight line issue

[augie]

Always amuses me to see or hear a man who is smaller than our mascots, talk about sight lines in the stadium - not if he was sitting on le cock's knee could he see the pitch

[maZu]

haha... you are a bunch of gloomy fuckers arent you

i was impressed with the comfy seats that we were sitting on... but it did feel like the seat made me lean forward more... as if i was about to fall of it.
coming from Sydney where i was a season member with Sydney FC you get used to bottom of the barrel stadium facilities and seating.. so for me anything here is a huge improvement

i can see why ticket prices are so high to watch Arsenal... somebody has to pay for cleaning the carpet once all the drunken fans spill beer all over it...

look forward to going back sometime soon!

[maZu]

I am impressed that you went to the Emirates Cup and still want to go back.

any game you go to from now on will be an improvement on what you saw on Sunday.

yeah ive seen better games... but i cant write off going to the stadium just yet..

[OneBardGooner]

hey all

new to the forum and new in the area... just moved here from Sydney Australia.
had my first experience of the emirates stadium over the weekend.. went to the emirates cup with some mates

great stadium to watch a game at... we had good seats on the 2nd level near the halfway line
shame about the result but it was a pleasure to watch arsenal live for the first time in my life... hopefully ill have a chance to check out some EPL games this season..


ive become a red member with arsenal so hopefully i can pick up some tickets from the arsenal shop or here

see you all around

Welcome Bruce!

What ever you do don't buy the food or the (watered down) beer in the bowl - unless you want to take out a second mortgage and get ripped off into the bargain.

[OneBardGooner]

ps: You should link up with Top Londoner he's just returned from an extended stay in Oz - I think it was a 2 year sentence reduced to 8 months so they could get rid of the f*cker!

[northbank123]

My first game there was DB10's testimonial. Trying to rack my brains to think of what my first impressions of the stadium were.

The facilities are pretty top notch. Puts the likes of Wembley to shame. The concourse etc is a bit better now they've actually realised they should probably not leave all the walls grey and actually give a nod towards that history thingy we spent 120 years building before we went there.

Sadly there's a lot more to a stadium than facilities. It was always going to be difficult to make the place feel like it had any history when it was new and winning a few trophies there would have definitely helped but the club made mistakes.

Sadly the atmosphere is generally appalling. I still enjoy going to the games when I can, if I didn't enjoy it I simply wouldn't bother. But the Cardiff game on New Year's Day was genuinely embarrassing. Loads of people only seeing 70 minutes because of turning up late and leaving early. People far more interested in comparing their various bets on other games on their phone, making jokes about Bendtner for the whole game (grated after 2 minutes) and generally discussing anything other than the game. If people don't really sing, fine, but I genuinely got the impression that people didn't really give a shit about what was happening. We were still top at that point and it was a pretty important game in a busy run, people just didn't care and it was so disillusioning.

[Theoperator]

I arrived late for 3 of the eight matches I got to last season . Its pretty hard to get there on time if coming by tube on the Picadilly line. Its a joke. Ive never yet got there at the right sort of time, im either over an hour and a half early or late The Victoria to Highbury seems much the best way in.

Ive never yet left early, that seems the oddest thing to do to me

v Saints the match kicked off 15 mins late due to the tube, Its embarassing. Annoyingly I was there with plenty of time

Its wrong to be arsey at people arriving late as if they cant be arsed, the other 2 matches I was late for was Marseille, massive queue on the M4 and Manure- again tube... V WBA in the thingy cup spent a good hour in the queue to get off the junction of the M5 The policing of and organising of traffic is pathetic really, and The whole business of the Holloway station is so so poor, hard to make that one up.

Anyway- welcome to the grumblezone