What Happened to Arsenal's Old Stadium Highbury?

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In 2006, Arsenal left their home of Highbury to move just around the corner to The Emirates. But what became of Highbury? The Athletic's Adam Leventhal is joined by Amy Lawrence in this short feature to explore the old ground, now residential flats and a beautiful garden, to discuss old times, and the reasons behind the move. Thanks to Arsenal Football Club and FirstPort Ltd for giving us permission to film inside the old ground, and Katherine Gumeniuk for showing us inside her flat.
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@ryanmccallum4309 3 жыл бұрын

I'm a west ham fan, but god I miss trips to the old highbury. I live near Peterborough now, but everytime I pass the Emirates on the train it brings a wee tear to the eye. Seeing the old highbury facade just on the horizon behind the big towering Emirates. I miss the boleyn ground, but it was never the same class of old school beauty as highbury, Highbury was an amazing work of art

@mrkipling2201 3 жыл бұрын

I’m a Manchester United fan and I first went to Highbury when we played Arsenal in the league in the 87/88 season. I always felt that it was a proper old school football ground. Coming out of the station and walking around the tight streets surrounded by houses was what grounds were like and should be like still. It had a unique atmosphere, especially for night games.

@sam-ze8bz 3 жыл бұрын

We still havs to walk them streets to get to Islington stadium I get what your sayin tho

@kwl189 2 жыл бұрын

Breaks my heart tbh looking at modern stadiums. Old school proper football grounds are surrounded by the community and locals. That’s just the way it should be. The character these stadiums had. Can’t get that with these billion dollar stadium.

@mrkipling2201 2 жыл бұрын

@@kwl189 spot on 👍👍

@kwl189 2 жыл бұрын

@@mrkipling2201 Hate the corporate feel around the new stadiums. Hope they keep extending OT for more capacity. Everton don’t know what they’re going to be missing.

@mrkipling2201 2 жыл бұрын

@@kwl189 I think that’s what we’re going to do. I’m not sure if Everton are doing the right thing. Fans of Arsenal, West Ham etc will tell them they aren’t doing the right thing.

@Anthontd83553 3 жыл бұрын

I miss highbury when you go to like craven cottage or even loftus road you still get that old community feel

@raphaelrau1728 3 жыл бұрын

Would be much better if the title mentions that It’s a tour with Amy Lawrence. Many more Gooners like myself would have watched this video sooner!

@BillyPhilipRwoth 3 жыл бұрын

I used to wonder why Arsenal didn’t redevelop Highbury instead of leaving...until I visited Highbury myself earlier this year. There just wasn’t any space to expand that stadium. I am glad however, that they transformed the old stadium into modern housing units as opposed to razing down the four stands. As iconic as Highbury was, Arsenal had to move into a bigger ground.

@Ese96Agoaye 3 жыл бұрын

I thought it would be an animated history as usual, but this is completely different! I like that!

@gildardorodriguez4356 3 жыл бұрын

Me too. I thought I was looking at another video. Great surprise.

@senianns9522 Жыл бұрын

My old granddad used to take me to Drayton Park station in order to miss the crowds in the Arsenal station tunnels! That was back in the early 60's . Got my first introduction to the 'Northbank' soon after that! 4 Shillings for me to get in opposite the Underground ! Great days! I was caught up in the bottle riot on the Northbank when Arsenal played Glasgow Rangers in the 60's. Never forget that madness! Pulled my jacket over my head and got out of the way! Bottles flying everywhere! Such memories !

@jonathanandrews2761 3 жыл бұрын

Arsenal is love..❤️❤️ Highbury makes me so emotional 😭

@MahirEbrahim 3 жыл бұрын

What a majestic football club with beautiful history and tradition. I love this club 🔴⚪🔴⚪🔴

@waz3128 3 жыл бұрын

I remember people bitching about the executive boxes built on top of the clock end looking like ''posh flats''. Haha, who would have thought a few years into the future the whole of Highbury would be turned into posh flats? At least they've preserved the memory of the original structure instead of bulldozing it down and turning it into a shopping centre or a parking lot.

@Spicytoaster737 3 жыл бұрын

I miss Highbury. Its just so connected to the neighborhoods. Literally in the middle of the city. Such a beautiful stadium. So many memories. This made me cry. Amy Lawrence is amazing btw. Such a loyal gooner.its funny how they made The Emerites almost look like a villan 😄

@TheGamerGabrie_l Жыл бұрын

@kadimosenye8830 2 ай бұрын

This is the soul of arsenal ❣️

@clivewarren8671 8 ай бұрын

Amy Lawrence is class. Proper Gooner and listening to her on the handbrake off is very enjoyable

@bope281 2 жыл бұрын

only when somethings gone do you realise the beauty and magnificence of it! so many great memories watching The Arsenal at THOF Highbury

@gaming6feetunder925 3 жыл бұрын

This is an interesting video, the way filmed and interviewing londoners and the cat. Three Arsenal videos on a day, I love this channel more and more. Just do Arsenal videos

@villagestoriesbydeepak 3 жыл бұрын

‘We left our soul at Highbury

@corinisboring4480 3 жыл бұрын

Great video. Not an Arsenal fan but I wish I got to go to Highbury as a kid. Been to Emirates many times and I always hear it's not the same as their old stadium

@colinlittlewood9613 3 жыл бұрын

As a Coventry City fan, I watched this thinking what might have been. Highfield Road was redeveloped as housing too, but almost nothing from the stadium was retained, which I feel is such a shame.

@mrpotato442 3 жыл бұрын

Definitely a catch 22 having to move out of there. A unique traditional stadium...only stadiums that resemble it today are Craven Cottage and Goodison Park. Tight stadium with fans right on top of the pitch giving a brilliant atmosphere. On the other hand the move was a necessity for the time where money in the premier league ballooned and it was a case of get revenue in or get left behind. Biggest surprise is Arsenal for such a massive club had only 38,000 capacity for so long.

@omijbhabha 3 жыл бұрын

3-4 Videos on 1 day Holy Mother Of God This is legit the best day of 2020

@llwyde1104 3 жыл бұрын

The great Amy Lawrence feels it like I do...well done Athletic

@lcoconstruction2660 2 ай бұрын

I grew up in Gillespie Rd, then lived in Avenell Rd for 33 years! The place was special, every other week was a carnival and a great vibrant atmosphere! It was working class then and we could be a part of the club! Pat Rice would serve us at his parents veg shop in Gillespie Rd and his brother Alfie was our barber! Then came the "Gentrification" and Yuppies, they have no soul but we do, I have many memories and mementos from the"Old Lady", including a horse shoe from the North Bank!❤

@quangbachtran839 3 жыл бұрын

HIGHBURY IS MY HOME!!!!

@AbdulRehman-zz6oq 3 жыл бұрын

This was great, thank you!

@kishoreg6078 3 жыл бұрын

Man, this was just beautiful... It should surely be getting more views!!!

@raykwon7 6 ай бұрын

It took a while, but for the last couple of years The Emirates has finally felt like home. Will always miss Highbury though.❤

@khutko1477 3 жыл бұрын

Wow!! very well done! Wish you could make a documentary about this topic.

@hansen6692 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks ! Highbury gives me some great memories. My first visit was in 1979.🙂

@SohanonYoutification 3 жыл бұрын

Hope to go there one day.

@metubesiraj 3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant!

@suhaskm5822 3 жыл бұрын

This kind of content mate it's top top quality what the fans love😍😍. I fucking loved this so much

@ifeanyiobiora-okafo7017 3 жыл бұрын

Beautiful video

@willgraham5105 3 жыл бұрын

Moving to The Emirates just killed us as a club imo,we were lied to told we'd be able to compete? Now look at us ffs 🙈

@afc9447 2 жыл бұрын

the owner killed us not the new stadium atletico Madrid built a new stadium and they won the la liga and Europe League and played the UCL final twice. Bayern built a new stadium and after the reopening They've got even better ... better than ever. kroenke won't spend any penny on AFC. apart from buying ownership shares back from 2005to2018. and Wenger have watched and accepted that.

@123dan165 2 жыл бұрын

@@afc9447 imo it's was never Wenger but the owner and the board.

@adaminho7002 2 жыл бұрын

Where's the 107% annual extra income being spent?

@sam-ze8bz 2 жыл бұрын

@@adaminho7002 inflation off the player wage

@andrei19238 2 жыл бұрын

@@afc9447 buyerns stadium was paid for by German gov

@Vortigan07 13 күн бұрын

I'll never forget my first time! A place that I'd seen a thousand times on TV, off the train at King's Cross, Piccadilly line to Arsenal station, the walk up the incline, out onto the street, up the steps to The North Bank and there it was in all its glory! I must have looked like a grinning fool 😂 And we beat Palace 4-1.

@annazhou3732 3 жыл бұрын

does anyone know the name of the piano piece used?

@chrismiller6317 3 жыл бұрын

What an amazing video;this brought all back for me My first visit to Highbury was in 1966 Such a shame they couldn’t have filled all for corners of the ground in to make it an amphitheatre When it came to CLASS;Highbury was second to NONE Emirates stadium not in the same class

@thegreathadoken6808 3 жыл бұрын

Amaaaaaaaazin'

@StEboue 3 жыл бұрын

Home 🙂👍

@KartikBharadwaj 3 жыл бұрын

The way Amy speaks, I tried my best not to tear up. I could feel the pain in her words when she said that there was no other option but to leave Highbury.

@pillarman 3 жыл бұрын

Cringe

@Evemeister12 3 жыл бұрын

@@pillarman why?

@Kushagra.j 3 жыл бұрын

Such a shame arsenal left Highbury

@wesgerritsen7871 3 жыл бұрын

They need to place a small football pitch in the middle where the pitch used to be

@pavelr4752 3 жыл бұрын

Is that Joe holding the camera at 3:18 ?

@tomaszignielnicki4320 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent video. Man City should have done the same but obviously its too late.11:40 Scouser girl?

@79Adam 3 жыл бұрын

Personally I think the people attending games at the emirates are the problem. I’m not talking about genuine Arsenal fans, I’m talking about the tourists who go and watch a game and the people who go just to take a selfie. I understand that it’s part of the modern game but it kills the atmosphere. I always see people arriving 5-10 minutes after kick off and leaving 5 minutes before half time to get a beer. The stadium is often a quarter empty in the 85th minute because they’re more interested in getting an earlier train.

@samuranga8537 3 жыл бұрын

Adam the team is not good enough to keep everyone in their seat I could be a tourist and you could be too

@user-ok6ub1cm2x 3 жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more

@user-ok6ub1cm2x 3 жыл бұрын

@@samuranga8537 that's not how it works bro

@thegreathadoken6808 3 жыл бұрын

@@samuranga8537 Christ's sake dude, the team is qualifying for Europe every year, the team is finishing in the top 6 of the Premier League for about the last 40 years or something. There's clubs in League Two who can keep fans on their seats playing hoofball every week, yet ARSENAL aren't good enough? What kind of pampered prawn sandwich fan are you?

@johnwilliams2479 3 жыл бұрын

I can still smell the fresh ink hot of the press of the Arsenal official programs, from 1963, and the Police band with a proper singer singing Opera, before the game and marching on the pitch at half time, but giving the North bank a wide birth as they were very hostile ta say the least.

@dougsotto9825 3 жыл бұрын

They could have talked to a former player to add to the story.

@wildsurfer12 3 жыл бұрын

Arsenal should never have left Highbury.

@ccfly222 2 жыл бұрын

they shoudve keep old stadium, definitely, its just more then money....

@thefivepoints 3 жыл бұрын

I hear the atmosphere at Highbury has got better.

@kwl189 2 жыл бұрын

Wonder how much of that 107% was down to ticket prices increasing. Honestly to god if I paid the prices Arsenal fans are paying for that shite from their owners and management within the club, I’m not sure I’d bother paying it. Support the club but there’s a limit to what a fan will endure and finance.

@TheGamerGabrie_l Жыл бұрын

emirates is good but i wanted to see highburry once minumum

@espben360 3 жыл бұрын

As a non arsenal fan, actually like emirates. Nice stadium.

@ibrushmyteethbeforeieatass9774 3 жыл бұрын

An Arsenal fan with a Man United profile picture?? People love to lie

@charlesh5791 3 жыл бұрын

@@ibrushmyteethbeforeieatass9774 read again mate

@ibrushmyteethbeforeieatass9774 3 жыл бұрын

@@charlesh5791 loool, I’ll take the L on this one

@ben597 3 жыл бұрын

Should have been called new highbury not Emirates

@AhmedMohamed-tn5yg 4 ай бұрын

Money talks dude

@robovac3557 2 жыл бұрын

I bet Henry owns some of those apartments.

@mihaiteodorescu9548 3 ай бұрын

😢😶

@k9kymmy 2 жыл бұрын

this is so like a bereavement :'(

@stewthorne Жыл бұрын

my aunt Judy Thorne,s ashes were briud in the clock end goal mouth

@StuartGarlick 3 жыл бұрын

The Athletic need to sort out their KZfaq presence. Tifo has a very specific look and sound, and it doesn't fit with this more Sky-style video. Rather than subsuming the Tifo podcasts into one big Athletic channel, I hope we eventually get a dedicated Athletic video channel, alongside the Tifo football channel.

@robertolopez1537 3 жыл бұрын

Indeed. Not a fan of Athletic journalists using Tifo as a way to get their presence up.