Arsenal The Highbury Years

[Rugby Gooner]

Picked up this book/magazine in WH Smiths the other day. A bit pricey,(for what it is), at a tenner, but it has some great photographs in it.
Just thought that I would let everyone know that it is on sale.

[northbank123]

Presumably it is stacked full of pictures of us not being able to compete with the elite?

[Perryashburtongroves]

A tenner? No thanks. There's no re-sale value and I can't see how it would improve the collection of books which I already own.

[StuartL]

A tenner? No thanks. There's no re-sale value and I can't see how it would improve the collection of books which I already own.

Ha ha

There must be a little pamphlet which you could pick up for a bargain price ?

Or seeing as you already have some books you could re- read one of them, just in a different location ?

[robbo10]

A tenner? No thanks. There's no re-sale value and I can't see how it would improve the collection of books which I already own.

Ha ha

There must be a little pamphlet which you could pick up for a bargain price ?

Or seeing as you already have some books you could re- read one of them, just in a different location ?

Best be quick before some of the important pages fall out and then its all over as a story,

[Bradywasking]

A book about the quaint little ground we left to compete at Europe and England's top table..

[Nos89]

Picked this up as well. Just put it this way, if the club released it it'll be double the price and in hardback cover form. They've released a few of these lately players of the 80's, 90's, real madrid, Barcelona, etc... so it's a nice edition to celebrate the Highbury years. Worth a tenner...

[Redarmy]

Highbury.....lots of memories

Fans sitting on the roof of Northbank watching the game

The Police band marking up and down before kick off

Fans fighting Villa on the pitch

parading the trophies from previous season

Standing with unknown faces on the North bank at till we realised we was in the middle of the ICF

the characters and the banter, could find people by where they stood

Seeing fans ejected marking around the field by the Police...

Charlie George, Charlie Nicholas, Thiery and Ian Wright and the great Dennis Bergkamp gracing the famous old pitch

Happy days

[robbo10]

Highbury.....lots of memories

Fans sitting on the roof of Northbank watching the game

The Police band marking up and down before kick off

Fans fighting Villa on the pitch

parading the trophies from previous season

Standing with unknown faces on the North bank at till we realised we was in the middle of the ICF

the characters and the banter, could find people by where they stood

Seeing fans ejected marking around the field by the Police...

Charlie George, Charlie Nicholas, Thiery and Ian Wright and the great Dennis Bergkamp gracing the famous old pitch

Happy days

The geezer walking round with his wooden tray selling peanuts,making his way through the crowd.

The waft of tobacco from roll ups/pipes,I'm a non-smoker but whenever I smell that smell now-a-days it takes me back to Highbury in the late 70's

Turning into Avenell Road on a night match and seeing the ground under floodlights,seeing the pitch between the East stand and Clock End before you got inside,always made me walk that little bit faster,....always gave me goosebumps.

I'm so happy my 2 daughters got to see a handful of games there.

[Redarmy]

Highbury.....lots of memories

Fans sitting on the roof of Northbank watching the game

The Police band marking up and down before kick off

Fans fighting Villa on the pitch

parading the trophies from previous season

Standing with unknown faces on the North bank at till we realised we was in the middle of the ICF

the characters and the banter, could find people by where they stood

Seeing fans ejected marking around the field by the Police...

Charlie George, Charlie Nicholas, Thiery and Ian Wright and the great Dennis Bergkamp gracing the famous old pitch

Happy days

The geezer walking round with his wooden tray selling peanuts,making his way through the crowd.

The waft of tobacco from roll ups/pipes,I'm a non-smoker but whenever I smell that smell now-a-days it takes me back to Highbury in the late 70's

Turning into Avenell Road on a night match and seeing the ground under floodlights,seeing the pitch between the East stand and Clock End before you got inside,always made me walk that little bit faster,....always gave me goosebumps.

I'm so happy my 2 daughters got to see a handful of games there.

Nice one Robbo,
When you got to the top of the hill, came from Highbury barn side, and you looked down to the stadium, road packed with fans
You could sense and feel something exciting was about to unfurl......

[Perryashburtongroves]

Highbury.....lots of memories

Fans sitting on the roof of Northbank watching the game

The Police band marking up and down before kick off

Fans fighting Villa on the pitch

parading the trophies from previous season

Standing with unknown faces on the North bank at till we realised we was in the middle of the ICF

the characters and the banter, could find people by where they stood

Seeing fans ejected marking around the field by the Police...

Charlie George, Charlie Nicholas, Thiery and Ian Wright and the great Dennis Bergkamp gracing the famous old pitch

Happy days

The geezer walking round with his wooden tray selling peanuts,making his way through the crowd.

The waft of tobacco from roll ups/pipes,I'm a non-smoker but whenever I smell that smell now-a-days it takes me back to Highbury in the late 70's

Turning into Avenell Road on a night match and seeing the ground under floodlights,seeing the pitch between the East stand and Clock End before you got inside,always made me walk that little bit faster,....always gave me goosebumps.

I'm so happy my 2 daughters got to see a handful of games there.

Nice one Robbo,
When you got to the top of the hill, came from Highbury barn side, and you looked down to the stadium, road packed with fans
You could sense and feel something exciting was about to unfurl......

And not a single fucking camera phone anywhere and none of those fucking awful half-and-half scarves in sight.

[robbo10]

Highbury.....lots of memories

Fans sitting on the roof of Northbank watching the game

The Police band marking up and down before kick off

Fans fighting Villa on the pitch

parading the trophies from previous season

Standing with unknown faces on the North bank at till we realised we was in the middle of the ICF

the characters and the banter, could find people by where they stood

Seeing fans ejected marking around the field by the Police...

Charlie George, Charlie Nicholas, Thiery and Ian Wright and the great Dennis Bergkamp gracing the famous old pitch

Happy days

The geezer walking round with his wooden tray selling peanuts,making his way through the crowd.

The waft of tobacco from roll ups/pipes,I'm a non-smoker but whenever I smell that smell now-a-days it takes me back to Highbury in the late 70's

Turning into Avenell Road on a night match and seeing the ground under floodlights,seeing the pitch between the East stand and Clock End before you got inside,always made me walk that little bit faster,....always gave me goosebumps.

I'm so happy my 2 daughters got to see a handful of games there.

Nice one Robbo,
When you got to the top of the hill, came from Highbury barn side, and you looked down to the stadium, road packed with fans
You could sense and feel something exciting was about to unfurl......

And not a single fucking camera phone anywhere and none of those fucking awful half-and-half scarves in sight.

Remember the half half hats though? I found my Arsenal/Dundee United one in the loft the other month! Fuck knows why I bought a Dundee United one though?

[Clash]

Still miss Highbury so much. Went to my first game there as a 5 year old in 1978. And from about 1982 onwards I probably missed no more than half a dozen games there.

The sad part is I was always certain in my mind I would still be going there as an old man. Unfortunately the egos and greed of a small self-serving elite put an end to that possibility.

After persevering with The Emirates for about 7 seasons , I no longer go there. Despite trying to delude myself that I still care, in truth I just don't have any real passion for the club anymore.

[SPARKSY]

Still miss Highbury so much. Went to my first game there as a 5 year old in 1978. And from about 1982 onwards I probably missed no more than half a dozen games there.

The sad part is I was always certain in my mind I would still be going there as an old man. Unfortunately the egos and greed of a small self-serving elite put an end to that possibility.

After persevering with The Emirates for about 7 seasons , I no longer go there. Despite trying to delude myself that I still care, in truth I just don't have any real passion for the club anymore.

That's a bit sad although completely understand where you're coming from. I still have my ST although I have very little enthusiasm for going to the Emirates anymore. Find it more of a chore to be honest.
However, I still travel away as much as I can and I still love that as much as ive ever done. Great supporters, great atmosphere, great fun. The complete opposite of what the Emirates is about.

[SPARKSY]

Still miss Highbury so much. Went to my first game there as a 5 year old in 1978. And from about 1982 onwards I probably missed no more than half a dozen games there.

The sad part is I was always certain in my mind I would still be going there as an old man. Unfortunately the egos and greed of a small self-serving elite put an end to that possibility.

After persevering with The Emirates for about 7 seasons , I no longer go there. Despite trying to delude myself that I still care, in truth I just don't have any real passion for the club anymore.

That's a bit sad although completely understand where you're coming from. I still have my ST although I have very little enthusiasm for going to the Emirates anymore. Find it more of a chore to be honest.
However, I still travel away as much as I can and I still love that as much as ive ever done. Great supporters, great atmosphere, great fun. The complete opposite of what the Emirates is about.