After a five-day trip to London and a nasty bout of tonsillitis picked up on the flight home, I am finally back to blogging ways today. I wouldn’t blame any of you for forgetting this after such a long absence, but the Blackburn game was my first ever taste of live Arsenal action. This meant […]
Tag: Emirates Stadium
As you might imagine, writing about this club for four years on an almost daily basis has created a fairly unique connection between myself and the club. I’ve passionately argued with fellow supporters about whether Nicklas Bendtner will ever be good enough, written a very personal piece about my all-time footballer Freddie Ljungberg and received […]
AFCB’s newest writer Andrew Luck – the third Andrew on our team! – gives us a fascinating account of Arsenal v Birmingham from a place we would all love to be: in the stands at Emirates Stadium. My route from the south of the capital, otherwise known as the London Outback on account of the […]
AFCB’s resident football economist Aaron Gordon looks at Arsenal’s unfavourable shirt sponsorship deal… There hasn’t been much of anything to speak of in terms of sponsorships and Arsenal over the past 5 years. Before the 2005/2006 season, Arsenal and Emirates agreed to a shirt sponsorship deal for a record 90 million pounds (using today’s conversion […]
Something extra (and a little bit different) for you today. Before my move to Germany at the start of September, I spent a week or so with some friends in London. As part of that stay, I managed to persuade a couple of them – the lovely Amanda and the infamous Morgana Clarke – to […]
My younger brother Panda Bear (or just Patrick, as he would now like to be known) arrived in London last week to kick off a three-month European adventure as part of the Football Nomad project. On Thursday he visited Emirates Stadium to check it all out and pick up his tickets to the Monday night […]
What do you get when you cross a visit to the Emirates Stadium to watch Arsenal beat Liverpool, Claude Debussy’s Clair de Lune and a Handycam? Only the best film that has been made about a trip to Arsenal, ever. Full credit to Rohan Blair-Mangat for a truly wonderful film. Thoughts? Have your say on […]