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Rich
10-17-2012, 06:10 PM
forces in English football. With maybe Liverpool being able to contend as well. That's how it should be.

f**k off Chelsea, f**k off City.

Classic Jorge
10-17-2012, 06:15 PM
Wichard

Rich
10-17-2012, 06:20 PM

Classic Jorge
10-17-2012, 06:23 PM

Rich
10-17-2012, 06:25 PM

Classic Jorge
10-17-2012, 06:27 PM

All Guns Blazing
10-17-2012, 06:27 PM
We were never one of the two biggest forces in English football to begin with.

Sorry.

Camp Freddie
10-17-2012, 07:07 PM

barrybueno
10-17-2012, 07:08 PM

Billy Goat Sverige
10-17-2012, 07:12 PM

Rich
10-17-2012, 07:14 PM
6-1 at Highbury and following Arsenal since 1996.

Rich
10-17-2012, 07:14 PM

Rich
10-17-2012, 07:15 PM

Nicosia Gooner
10-17-2012, 07:17 PM

Classic Jorge
10-17-2012, 07:20 PM
Now we have a soulless shopping mall of a stadium with the moribund, listless inhabitants to match.

Lovely

Herbette Chapman - aged 15
10-17-2012, 07:31 PM

Billy Goat Sverige
10-17-2012, 07:36 PM
Much more space but lacking all the character. Also surrounded by young yuppie c**ts.

Rich
10-17-2012, 07:40 PM
stadium full of character that would cost more and more to maintain as time went on?

Or move to a new stadium to ensure we kept pace with our rivals? Nobody was to forsee what happened at Chelsea and City. If that hadn't happened then it would just be us and United now. Two horse race.

Liverpool are the only other club with the commercial appeal to offset their lesser matchday revenue.

barrybueno
10-17-2012, 07:48 PM

Peter
10-17-2012, 09:03 PM
The new stadium is rather nice, you must admit.

Shpuld be, cost a few bob http://www.awimb.com/images/smiley_icons/smile.gif

Peter
10-17-2012, 09:05 PM
It was only when the cost of the move started to hit that we fell behind. We are still behind.

Thus far the effect has been precisely the opposite of the fundamental argument for the move.

Thus far....

Classic Jorge
10-17-2012, 09:29 PM
The new one is utterly horrible, completely depressing and for all it's grandeur feels like a four star hotel in Brussels.

Classic Jorge
10-17-2012, 09:32 PM
That said, it shouldnt have stopped us building something with character, class and individuality, something that was distinctly something in and of itself.

Maybe I had it ruined for me by visiting the Luz in Lisbon beforehand, which is basically the Emirates but a top of the range version. It's a f**king gerry build, a soulless prefab.

JJSB
10-17-2012, 09:38 PM
with a smaller stadium than Highbury was, and without the initial boost from years of CL qualification that we had.

Classic Jorge
10-17-2012, 09:40 PM

Ashberto
10-17-2012, 09:43 PM
but if we're honest about it, the sightlines left a lot to be desired, and 'soul' is a metaphysical concept unbecoming of a rational materialist, if I may say so. http://www.awimb.com/images/smiley_icons/wink.gif

I know you agree deep down that without the new stadium we would ultimately be staring down the barrel of being the Everton of the South, so I say Just Rejoice that we managed to build a new one right next door, still in Islington, and didn't end up with a large plastic Reebokalike in some ghastly field out by the M25.

Classic Jorge
10-17-2012, 09:52 PM
We just needed to build something that could be ours, instead we got something that's everybody's instead. And not in a groovy egalitarian way either.

How come the Germans managed to make five or six stadiums, modern stadiums, big stadiums, clever stadiums, that have infinitely more interest and difference than ours? Christ, there are three or four better stadiums in Portugal FFS

Ashberto
10-17-2012, 10:03 PM
I've not been to all these superior stadiums you cite so I can't honestly comment, but I think that the Allianz Arena, for example, looks like a large boiled sweet. FWIW I think ours looks rather good dominating the skyline from the hill behind my flat.

Classic Jorge
10-17-2012, 10:11 PM