That is something I can agree with you on that I been an arsenal for more than 15 years and still going my father was an arsenal fan and same with my cousin 😊
@@felixleiter5092the new grounds are a dump, plastic crap everywhere and people are paying for it, Highbury had character and a good atmosphere, the new stadium is sterile, like the other new stadiums.
Awesome job! I sat for 6 seasons in West Upper, Block U, Row M, Seat 22 at Highbury. Brings back so many memories. I actually paused the video for a moment when you showed the cut-out at the centre circle, just to orient my mind, to imagine being there, looking at the centre circle from my vantage point in the west Upper. The East stand really is a beautiful art deco building. I really appreciate this video. Well done, mate!
Highbury was always my favourite away trip. The results weren’t often to my liking but the ground itself was great to visit. And the pre match pint(s) at The World’s End of course.
When Pat Jennings had his testimonial my Dad was unable to go due to a bereavement. The following week he went to the ground and he asked Nobby, the doorman at the main entrance, if Pat was around. He said he was out on the pitch with Paul Mariner and Tony Woodcock. He then waved my Dad through the dressing room to the pitch and my Dad had a talk with Pat and gave him a bottle of whiskey. In his broad Northern Irish accent he shouted over to Tony Woodcock, "Hey, Woody, we'll be OK tonight." Can you imagine that sort of access to the players these days.
no Ry first went in the late 70s could look the date up as it was a spurs derby and its mentioned in nick hornbys fever pitch because of the pitched battle on the north bank,last went there in the 80s sometime to a leeds game then moved up to north lancashire so the smokes a bit of a trek nowadays mate@@RysFootyParadise
Have fond memories of the old Arsenal stadium,though being a Spurs fan,my Dad was an Arsenal fan as a young boy,born in 1924,& he used to go there,he told me that they passed the young children over the fence to get in for free,but one day,he changed his allegiance to Spurs,to spite his friends,(won't get that today),then not long after,my Dad & his family moved to Tottenham from Islington before the 2nd World War,with me,I grew up in Stoke Newington,had Spurs friends,but mostly Arsenal,but been there many times,mostly in the 1970s & 1980s,was there when Spurs beat Arsenal 0-2 at Highbury on 11th May,was in the North Bank with 2 of my Arsenal friends,I was 13 then,I kept quite when Spurs scored,my 2 Arsenal friends were jokingly saying that they'll expose me as a Spurs fan,Ralph Coates bagged Spurs 2 goals,also in 1972,29th February to be precise,one of my Arsenal friends & i,went to the FA cup 5th round? replay,between Arsenal & Derby County,but why this was unique,it was played on an early Tuesday? afternoon,as there were ongoing power cuts then in the UK,i was still at school then,like most kid's that were there that day,either bunked off of school or half-day,my friend & I were in the boy's enclosure,over 63,000 turned up for a 0-0 draw,a crash barrier gave way in the North Bank,(there is a small clip on TH-cam),we'll never see those days again,the best game I saw there was against Newcastle United in 1976,when Malcolm Macdonald scored a hat-trick for his new club against his old club,in a 5-3 win,but the best memory for me,was witnessing Spurs beating Wolves 2-0 in the 1981 FA cup semi-final replay,when we took over Highbury for the evening,I was in the clock-end with my Spurs friend,yes,as I said,have fond memories of Highbury,a beautiful stadium in its day
@richardbray6454 you got to remember spurs have never ever once won 1 or 3 trophies even to this day not a single trophy through out your existence years later arsenal have won a lot more trophies than your silver knife and fork put together 😅😅
@RysfootyParadise oh god Manchester United will always be S can't stand the red devils glad you like our arsenal Highbury tour but your womans team Manchester United losted on Saturday to my red army womens game ayyyyyy 😂🤭😁
The Arsenal Stadium, to give it its proper name, is very much missed by us Arsenal fans. I've never had the bottle to go up into the Marble Halls, I'm sure it'll be a proper goosebumps moment if I ever do. Looking forward to the Ashburton Grove/Emirates tour Vlog......
You should deffo go back there mate… it’s still got that feeling of a former ground unlike most sites I visit. The entrance way is relatively untouched
Excellent video thanks for posting. Brings all the great memories back for me - first match was with my dad on Saturday 9th October 1976, and I have the programme framed in my home office here with me now - we sat in the East Upper and thats when it all started for me. I can still remember those early games as a young lad, seeing the immaculate bowling green of a pitch, and the beautiful 1970s scarlet and white kit, and the likes of Super Mac, Liam Brady, Frank Stapleton, Vladimir Petrovic, Charlie Nicholas, Brian Marwood, Rocky Rocastle, Anders Limpar and Alan Smith and so on.. - everything about The Arsenal was just so special. When I started going as a teenager, I then stood on the North Bank through until May 2006 when Arsenal left, apart from the odd venture to the Clock End, and for one full season stood there when the North Bank was demolished and the new stand built. I even managed to spend an hour on the pitch after the last match, and have (for me at least) some priceless photos of a players view of the stadium, as well as a video of me kicking a ball around the hallowed turf and scoring in the North Bank goal. After one season at the new ground I handed my season ticket back and haven''t been back since - it just wasn't the same for me and that was the love affair with Arsenal and Highbury over for me unfortunately...football really was so much better then.
Really enjoyed the video, and the Emirates Tour video, I grew up watching Arsenal on the North Bank, and Highbury will always be home for me, but I'm glad you recognised how well Arsenal done to retain the class and character around the new stadium.
Not ashamed to say I shed a tear when I sat in the centre circle and looked at where I used to go to the games in the north bank… Can’t imagine any other big club moving stadium and renaming. I still stand by leaving Highbury was the moment football put cash ahead of history/ performance. Let’s be honest since Arsenal left Highbury they’ve barely been a shadow of what they were at Highbury. Since 2006 I can count on 1 hand the amount of seasons I’ve actually enjoyed. If you’ve not been back I’d recommend it. Sit in that centre circle you can still imagine the players that stood there. Still hear the crowd as Wrighty scored or Adams leading the team out. It’s v sad.
That’s it mate 😊 at least it still looks relatively similar… West Ham fans have to look at a bunch of flats that bare no resemblance to a football ground
I remember going to an Arsenal vs Liverpool game in the late 70s with approx 70,000 in attendance before it was all seater stadium. That was incredible.
Any one who was short went under the turnstiles, and a good deal of the bigger lads went over. Official attendance was about 65000 but you might well be right at 70000. It was rocking alright! Knees up mother brown!
As a lifetime Arsenal fan first went to Highbury the day after my 8th birthday . 2-0 win against Middlesbrough 21st December 2002 . Went many time before we moved and still there won’t ever be a stadium I loved as much as Highbury such a special place
I grew up in Gillespie Rd, and the unique house you mentioned used to be a scrap yard in the 50's, 60's and 70's! Stephens Ink Factory was on the left hand side and Kodak Film processors on the opposite side behind the North Bank!
Quality video Ry. As you'd expect, Arsenal will always ooz class. Highbury undoubtedly, one of the great all-time stadiums. Thank god for grade listing laws, otherwise this place would've been raised to the ground, much like Upton Park
Couple little fun facts, Arsenal is the only club in London with their very own Tube Station Name.... The red shirts we wear was a hand me down from Nottingham Forest because a game happened and Arsenal was so new as a club did not have shirts to play in.... Also Rangers (Glasgow) used to have shares in the club and vice versa, it was a little thing between the clubs many moons ago, and that is a bond to this day still holds as they play friendlies pre-season against each other every now and again, but definitely when big events like 100-115-125 years existence etc.... Arsenal was the first club to have numbers on the back of the shirts in England.... Arsenal also was the first club to play under floodlights in the UK, revolutionary night games at the time...
I’m sure those apartments aren’t cheap! It’s good to see that the developers retained the essence of Highbury instead of flattening it and just building non descript properties in a prime location. Just shows you that form is temporary…..but class is permanent. COYG!
Sure, but on the other hand they probably knew people would pay more to live there if they kept it Highbury-related. Maybe a bit of class with a touch of greed and capitalism
I remember sitting in the North Bank when Arsenal smashed Leicester 5-0. Ray Parlour scored 2 and Nicholas Anelka scored a hat trick. Amazing memories ❤
Thanks, man. I'm a Gooner, but I made a point of going to a match at the Boleyn Ground shortly before you left, as a mark of respect to your history. It was against some foreign team with a hard-to-pronounce name. Not a great game, but at least you won with a last-minute goal lol!
@@lewisdowsett8390 Jeez, I've just had a look on Street View. A massive soulless block of apartments with no visible remnant of the old ground. That's just wrong, and it's a reflection of what this fucked up country is all about these days.
Hey Ry, Great Tour! This was my local club growing up and I attended my first match in The North Bank in 1980. Archibald Leitch indeed designed the first part of Arsenal stadium. However William Binnie and Claude Ferrier designed The Art Deco East & West Stands. It was Henry Norris who paid for Highbury and the move from Woolwich. Some Arsenal fans have recently been to photo The Invicta Ground in Woolwich that still has some remnants. If you’re going to Europe I’d suggest Standard Liege, Alemannia Aachen who’s Old ground is next to the new ground and JC Roda Kerkrade. All three you do in a day as they’re near to each other, but each ground in a different nation, Belgium, Germany and Netherlands.
What a lovely old ground! I had a season ticket in the Clock End when it was all seater. Before that I used to stand on the old North Bank. Biggest attendance when I saw us beat Man City in the League Cup replay 1-0 in 1978..over 57000. Such happy memories winning the league and parading the trophy around the pitch. And watching us play Juventus in 1980 in the old Cup Winners Cup semis. They had Zoff, Causio, Bettega, Gentile and Tardelli..and they were the dirtiest team I ever witnessed..especially when Bettega did a brutal foul on David O'Leary..and didn't get sent off! It's lovely they kept that tradition and the marble halls are class. Hard to think we moved from there nearly 18 years ago. Nice video 👍
I first professional stadium attendance was old Trafford around 1988/89. 11yrs old in the stretford end. Deepdale I went regular in the early 90s, old rickty plastic pitch, old wooden benches for seats but mainly standing, they had a massive standing end also. I liked Goodinson, nestle inbetween houses, old style and chippys and pubs around.
Thanks for your great video local pensioner brought back some great memories used to be a season ticket holder and can I say good luck to your famous team Man Utd 😊
so sad to see these great old grounds gone another good day out deacent badge stalls good places to get something to eat used to work arond highbury many years ago like most grounds it was so mucb better when it was standing think the away fans was in the clock end from what i can remember they turned the su''prters club at the boleyn in to aym so nice to see arsenal have kept all these great featues another great and very intresting blog thanks ryan so sad to see the demise of these grounds thanks again steve
Cheers again Steve! This was nice to see and not as sad as the Boleyn demolition - I’m at Pompey on the 15th for that badge 👍🏾 you’ll have to do a video with me on the channel sharing your memories of the Boleyn or something 😁🍻
really enjoyed you video been a Arsenal fan for 45 years used to go Highbury i was 11 and it was £1.80p to stand in 1982 terrific memories of matches there it would have been great to stay but Arsenal couldnt expand with all the surrounding houses thanks again for the video
That was brilliant, man… So glad you like our old gaff as well as the new one. My brother's a United fan, so I understand the antipathy between our two clubs, but the respect you should us on the tour was something that he's never done (unless as something muttered between gritted teeth.) Good on ya - you're always welcome back!
My 1st ever Arsenal game was at Highbury, 1992 , 1st ever game of the newly formed Premier League. My Dad a life long Gooner had past away at Christmas the year before. 2-0 up at half time we went and lost 2-4 to Norwich. Still one of the best experience of my life. Great memories, great video and great stadium
I did visit what was Highbury when I did the Emirates stadium tour but only looked at the exterior East stand part, thanks for risking it when showing the former pitch side.
@RysFootyParadise yeah was fantastic. The main tunnel was small. The Arsenal changing room had underfloor heating for around 50 years and overlooked Avenell Road roughly where the gym is.
I miss that stadium been to it quite a few times on matchdays even when it had terracing all around the ground and was like a mini bowl the atmosphere back then was amazing
I'm not afraid to admit it but as a west ham fan I'm completely jealous that Highbury is still like that and you can visit and reminisce also that the Emirates is only across the road in the same area Same as spurs to be fair Our history has been destroyed and discarded 😢
Been a fan all my life I'm 80 now I remember seeing the Busby babies in Feb 1958 last game at home at highbury before the tragic air crash.they beat us 5-3 I lived in conewood st opposite the white steps,,and when I was young my mother and I use to sit at the window and we new if arsenal had won or lost because at4.40pm sat afternoon all you had to do was look. at the supporters faces going home.We use to have great times getting all.the players autographs ,ie walley Barnes jimmy Logie,Mel charles, Derrick tapscott,Jack Kersey wondefull times ,never forgotten.So many stories,including going to reserve games and after, taking our tennis Ball on the pitch and kicking it about untill we were chased off.
Hello mate you should do the besiktas stadium tour Istanbul turkey it’s amazing the most amazing stadium in turkey and the views of the Bosporus are breathtaking 🇹🇷
found the channel by pure accident as i was looking at Arsenal stuff, fantastic tour video of highbury and the emirates one, used to goto games at highbury when i was younger and can honestly say everytimne i went was as exciting as the first, unfortunstly i have not had the oppertunity to goto a game at the emirates which is a real shame, since moving to Gloucester I have not been to 1 game, fully intend to check out all your other videos, great job my man
Great video mate. Brings back many memories of me and my mate, rushing the North Bank turnstiles on match day, to get a good old 2 for 1 entry!! The house you see on the corner of the North Bank and West Stand, was an old parks building I believe. Just further up is an entrance to a park. I might be wrong it was 20 odd years ago now that I was down that way (living in Australia now), but I do remember it being converted at the time. Still miss Highbury massively.
@@RysFootyParadise Those were the best features of that iconic place. My favourite is the Art Deco on East Stand. Glad it was kept as a listed building
Fantastic video of your trip to Highbury. Used to sit in the Clock End Stand. 38,000 close to the pitch. European games under the lights. Highbury is still there, in part. Looking forward to the Emirates Stadium Tour and Museum video. Keep up the Good Work.
Great video mate. Worst thing to happen to our club leaving that place. The club died that day on and off the pitch. Team not on the level it used to be, new type of fan now goes compared to Highbury, and the club overall left behind People will try and say “Arteta has restored things” but take it from someone who goes away every week & all over Europe, the club isn’t a patch on what it was when we were at Highbury and never will be again Sad times
Originally known as Gillespie Road, it was renamed in 1932 after Arsenal Football Club, who at the time played at the nearby Arsenal Stadium. It is the only tube station named directly after a football club.
Hiya Ry, I'm new to your channel, the vlogs I've watched up until now have been good, I'm a Newcastle fan and have been for 30 years, so I'm glad you've done the tour of the stadium, if you get time could you do Brunton Park, Carlisle United's ground, I don't think they do Stadium tours though, Paul Simpson, is a Carlisle lad but played allot of his football for Derby County, and is current Carlisle manager, this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England
Well it's better than 99.9% of old stadium remains you see these days,worth a couple of photos of course but without the visible red upper tier side panelling of the stunning but short lived North Stand,i find it hard to come to terms with its new use. Personally,i would rather walk through the old East Stand at Brisbane Road,it has an interesting history,and it still looks out onto the pitch of Brisbane Road with it's 3 modern stands. Cant see the tower block in the distance over the terrace anymore,such is the price of progress,but then again i imagine it holds the atmosphere better. Actually,coming to think of it Leyton Orient may well have been the first ground that featured accomadation on its corners. Quite a view those flats have to,as some Derby fans will know 😊
Really random I found this video, and thought I recognised you, I've been following your socials since you were a bodybuilder about 11 years ago 😂 can't wait to watch more of these stadium tours
I delivered some furniture to a person who owned one of those apartments and the saddest thing was he didn't live there full time and he hated football!Seeing highbury again brought back some good memories though thanks Ry.
Really enjoyed the video l grew up in Finsbury Park and went to Ambler Road school the nearest school to Highbury.First game 1960 England v Wales School boy international.The modern house at the end of the video used to be a scrap metal dealer😂
What are your thoughts on what Man Utd should do stadium wise? Redevelop/touch up OT? Tear down OT and rebuild on site? Move location like we did? Or something else? I think whatever option is chosen the result is you will lose that original feeling we all had of the first stadia. However I think we did pretty well at preserving Highbury, while The Emirates Stadium did well eventually. People forget that over the years its had many cosmetic changes to make it feel more homely.
Ideally I’d love a Real Madrid style renovation but because of the railway line next door we wouldn’t be able to do it so will probably end up with a Spurs style new build next door 😊
@@RysFootyParadise I'd have thought you can do a complex bit like city but not as large. Be interesting if you knock down OT and ground share elsewhere for a bit with someone.
Woolwich the original mk dons 🤮, the emeriods is a prototype that should never have been built. As this guy said old Highbury (library) has not changed it’s still very quiet.
I can’t understand leaving such historic grounds why not do everything you can to develop them. Anfield is the perfect example keeping the history but creating a more modern stadium.
To develop highbury would have meant buying up homes at huge cost London house prices,.each of those terraced houses will likely be £1m each now, and many residents would not move, so it was a non starter. Fans would have preferred that. Arsenal puchased the area close to the ground that was industrial land, they even had a long battle to get that due to businesses refusing to relocate, some i heard on the basis that they were rival fans and would make it as difficult for Arsenal.
The club couldn't enlarge the East / West stands as they're listed buildings. The only option was to develop either end, which they did, but it still wasn't enough.
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Do You MISS Highbury⁉ or Do You Prefer The Emirates ⁉
there was a time none of us could have imagined an arsenal without highbury, crazy how its been almost 18 years
That is something I can agree with you on that I been an arsenal for more than 15 years and still going my father was an arsenal fan and same with my cousin 😊
Still miss that ground. Had some great times there.
It was a dump. Much better now as flats if you can pay for it...
@@felixleiter5092the new grounds are a dump, plastic crap everywhere and people are paying for it, Highbury had character and a good atmosphere, the new stadium is sterile, like the other new stadiums.
They've got players that were born since then, that makes me feel old.
even as a spurs fan i think it's great how highbury was able to be preserved to this extent.
You have to admire the stadiums that arsenal have played in
Ya you have been to the Woolwich arsenal mate 😂😂😂
@felixleiter5092...mind the gap mate 😅😅😅
BRILLIANT ! strarted going over THE Arsenal 1965, now 70yrs thank you, iv liked and subscribed .
Cheers Danny 👍🏾
Awesome job! I sat for 6 seasons in West Upper, Block U, Row M, Seat 22 at Highbury. Brings back so many memories. I actually paused the video for a moment when you showed the cut-out at the centre circle, just to orient my mind, to imagine being there, looking at the centre circle from my vantage point in the west Upper. The East stand really is a beautiful art deco building. I really appreciate this video. Well done, mate!
Glad you enjoyed it! And thanks for sharing your memories 😊
Highbury was always my favourite away trip. The results weren’t often to my liking but the ground itself was great to visit. And the pre match pint(s) at The World’s End of course.
First went to Highbury in 1966 with my Dad. Was a regular on the north bank throughout late 60s and 70s, 80s. Great days, great stadium.
When Pat Jennings had his testimonial my Dad was unable to go due to a bereavement. The following week he went to the ground and he asked Nobby, the doorman at the main entrance, if Pat was around. He said he was out on the pitch with Paul Mariner and Tony Woodcock. He then waved my Dad through the dressing room to the pitch and my Dad had a talk with Pat and gave him a bottle of whiskey. In his broad Northern Irish accent he shouted over to Tony Woodcock, "Hey, Woody, we'll be OK tonight." Can you imagine that sort of access to the players these days.
im no arsenal fan but ive been to highbury several times its great to see how aesthetically pleasing it still looks great vlog Ry
Did you go when they had that controversial painting up behind the goal in the 90s?
no Ry first went in the late 70s could look the date up as it was a spurs derby and its mentioned in nick hornbys fever pitch because of the pitched battle on the north bank,last went there in the 80s sometime to a leeds game then moved up to north lancashire so the smokes a bit of a trek nowadays mate@@RysFootyParadise
Have fond memories of the old Arsenal stadium,though being a Spurs fan,my Dad was an Arsenal fan as a young boy,born in 1924,& he used to go there,he told me that they passed the young children over the fence to get in for free,but one day,he changed his allegiance to Spurs,to spite his friends,(won't get that today),then not long after,my Dad & his family moved to Tottenham from Islington before the 2nd World War,with me,I grew up in Stoke Newington,had Spurs friends,but mostly Arsenal,but been there many times,mostly in the 1970s & 1980s,was there when Spurs beat Arsenal 0-2 at Highbury on 11th May,was in the North Bank with 2 of my Arsenal friends,I was 13 then,I kept quite when Spurs scored,my 2 Arsenal friends were jokingly saying that they'll expose me as a Spurs fan,Ralph Coates bagged Spurs 2 goals,also in 1972,29th February to be precise,one of my Arsenal friends & i,went to the FA cup 5th round? replay,between Arsenal & Derby County,but why this was unique,it was played on an early Tuesday? afternoon,as there were ongoing power cuts then in the UK,i was still at school then,like most kid's that were there that day,either bunked off of school or half-day,my friend & I were in the boy's enclosure,over 63,000 turned up for a 0-0 draw,a crash barrier gave way in the North Bank,(there is a small clip on TH-cam),we'll never see those days again,the best game I saw there was against Newcastle United in 1976,when Malcolm Macdonald scored a hat-trick for his new club against his old club,in a 5-3 win,but the best memory for me,was witnessing Spurs beating Wolves 2-0 in the 1981 FA cup semi-final replay,when we took over Highbury for the evening,I was in the clock-end with my Spurs friend,yes,as I said,have fond memories of Highbury,a beautiful stadium in its day
@richardbray6454 you got to remember spurs have never ever once won 1 or 3 trophies even to this day not a single trophy through out your existence years later arsenal have won a lot more trophies than your silver knife and fork put together 😅😅
T@RYUGB2000 spurs haven't won anything? They've won more European and league cups than Arsenal for one 😂😂
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@RysfootyParadise oh god Manchester United will always be S can't stand the red devils glad you like our arsenal Highbury tour but your womans team Manchester United losted on Saturday to my red army womens game ayyyyyy 😂🤭😁
The Arsenal Stadium, to give it its proper name, is very much missed by us Arsenal fans. I've never had the bottle to go up into the Marble Halls, I'm sure it'll be a proper goosebumps moment if I ever do. Looking forward to the Ashburton Grove/Emirates tour Vlog......
You should deffo go back there mate… it’s still got that feeling of a former ground unlike most sites I visit. The entrance way is relatively untouched
Excellent video thanks for posting. Brings all the great memories back for me - first match was with my dad on Saturday 9th October 1976, and I have the programme framed in my home office here with me now - we sat in the East Upper and thats when it all started for me. I can still remember those early games as a young lad, seeing the immaculate bowling green of a pitch, and the beautiful 1970s scarlet and white kit, and the likes of Super Mac, Liam Brady, Frank Stapleton, Vladimir Petrovic, Charlie Nicholas, Brian Marwood, Rocky Rocastle, Anders Limpar and Alan Smith and so on.. - everything about The Arsenal was just so special. When I started going as a teenager, I then stood on the North Bank through until May 2006 when Arsenal left, apart from the odd venture to the Clock End, and for one full season stood there when the North Bank was demolished and the new stand built. I even managed to spend an hour on the pitch after the last match, and have (for me at least) some priceless photos of a players view of the stadium, as well as a video of me kicking a ball around the hallowed turf and scoring in the North Bank goal. After one season at the new ground I handed my season ticket back and haven''t been back since - it just wasn't the same for me and that was the love affair with Arsenal and Highbury over for me unfortunately...football really was so much better then.
Thanks for watching mate & glad you enjoyed it!
Never been to either Highbury or the Emirates. Been supporting the gooners since 1999/00 season. I miss Highbury. ❤
You’re a fan not a supporter
How can you miss Highbury if you’ve never been there ??
Really enjoyed the video, and the Emirates Tour video, I grew up watching Arsenal on the North Bank, and Highbury will always be home for me, but I'm glad you recognised how well Arsenal done to retain the class and character around the new stadium.
Really nice video. I'm from south Africa. Might never get to see the the emirates ever, so this video is much appreciated
Not ashamed to say I shed a tear when I sat in the centre circle and looked at where I used to go to the games in the north bank…
Can’t imagine any other big club moving stadium and renaming. I still stand by leaving Highbury was the moment football put cash ahead of history/ performance.
Let’s be honest since Arsenal left Highbury they’ve barely been a shadow of what they were at Highbury. Since 2006 I can count on 1 hand the amount of seasons I’ve actually enjoyed. If you’ve not been back I’d recommend it. Sit in that centre circle you can still imagine the players that stood there. Still hear the crowd as Wrighty scored or Adams leading the team out.
It’s v sad.
That’s it mate 😊 at least it still looks relatively similar… West Ham fans have to look at a bunch of flats that bare no resemblance to a football ground
@@RysFootyParadise mate let’s chat ur that gen of Utd I hate but love haha but we can also help re retro shirt sales.
I remember going to an Arsenal vs Liverpool game in the late 70s with approx 70,000 in attendance before it was all seater stadium. That was incredible.
Bet that place was rocking 🤩
Any one who was short went under the turnstiles, and a good deal of the bigger lads went over.
Official attendance was about 65000 but you might well be right at 70000.
It was rocking alright!
Knees up mother brown!
Damn you old
As a lifetime Arsenal fan first went to Highbury the day after my 8th birthday . 2-0 win against Middlesbrough 21st December 2002 . Went many time before we moved and still there won’t ever be a stadium I loved as much as Highbury such a special place
Highbury will always be the true home of the Arsenal, like footprints in concrete.
True home for Arsenal jokers is in Woolwich - they should f off back
@@johnnyboy2268
Ah! The Red part of London..
And just like the already dated and crumbling Emirates it doesn't have a CL trophy in it
Brings back so many memories, especially getting my old season ticket book from the 'enquiries office' every year!
I used to love this stadium, am not even an arsenal fan
I grew up in Gillespie Rd, and the unique house you mentioned used to be a scrap yard in the 50's, 60's and 70's! Stephens Ink Factory was on the left hand side and Kodak Film processors on the opposite side behind the North Bank!
I feel Arsenal have done the best in terms of keeping some of its recognisable features compared to other knocked down grounds
Had many amazing time there, from the first time my Dad took me there in 1977 when I was 8! ❤
Just found your channel and subscribed. Really enjoyed listening to you talk about Arsenal.
Thank you 😊
Quality video Ry. As you'd expect, Arsenal will always ooz class. Highbury undoubtedly, one of the great all-time stadiums. Thank god for grade listing laws, otherwise this place would've been raised to the ground, much like Upton Park
Absolutely- Craven Cottage almost went in the 80s if they didn’t apply for it to be a listed building
Couple little fun facts, Arsenal is the only club in London with their very own Tube Station Name.... The red shirts we wear was a hand me down from Nottingham Forest because a game happened and Arsenal was so new as a club did not have shirts to play in.... Also Rangers (Glasgow) used to have shares in the club and vice versa, it was a little thing between the clubs many moons ago, and that is a bond to this day still holds as they play friendlies pre-season against each other every now and again, but definitely when big events like 100-115-125 years existence etc.... Arsenal was the first club to have numbers on the back of the shirts in England.... Arsenal also was the first club to play under floodlights in the UK, revolutionary night games at the time...
I’m sure those apartments aren’t cheap! It’s good to see that the developers retained the essence of Highbury instead of flattening it and just building non descript properties in a prime location. Just shows you that form is temporary…..but class is permanent. COYG!
Sure, but on the other hand they probably knew people would pay more to live there if they kept it Highbury-related. Maybe a bit of class with a touch of greed and capitalism
I remember sitting in the North Bank when Arsenal smashed Leicester 5-0. Ray Parlour scored 2 and Nicholas Anelka scored a hat trick. Amazing memories ❤
I've been waiting for this one
Cool video. Thanks for posting. :-)
One word for Highbury - Class and that is from a West Ham fan
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Thanks, man. I'm a Gooner, but I made a point of going to a match at the Boleyn Ground shortly before you left, as a mark of respect to your history. It was against some foreign team with a hard-to-pronounce name. Not a great game, but at least you won with a last-minute goal lol!
Go there now if you can mate its disgusting and so sad
I to am a west ham fan and highbury is total class @SpiritmanProductions
@@lewisdowsett8390 Jeez, I've just had a look on Street View. A massive soulless block of apartments with no visible remnant of the old ground. That's just wrong, and it's a reflection of what this fucked up country is all about these days.
@@SpiritmanProductions exactly mate all my memories wiped out
Hey Ry, Great Tour! This was my local club growing up and I attended my first match in The North Bank in 1980. Archibald Leitch indeed designed the first part of Arsenal stadium. However William Binnie and Claude Ferrier designed The Art Deco East & West Stands. It was Henry Norris who paid for Highbury and the move from Woolwich. Some Arsenal fans have recently been to photo The Invicta Ground in Woolwich that still has some remnants. If you’re going to Europe I’d suggest Standard Liege, Alemannia Aachen who’s Old ground is next to the new ground and JC Roda Kerkrade. All three you do in a day as they’re near to each other, but each ground in a different nation, Belgium, Germany and Netherlands.
Thanks for the info mate & for watching the video 😊👍🏾 definitely a video idea for the future there!
What a lovely old ground! I had a season ticket in the Clock End when it was all seater. Before that I used to stand on the old North Bank. Biggest attendance when I saw us beat Man City in the League Cup replay 1-0 in 1978..over 57000. Such happy memories winning the league and parading the trophy around the pitch. And watching us play Juventus in 1980 in the old Cup Winners Cup semis. They had Zoff, Causio, Bettega, Gentile and Tardelli..and they were the dirtiest team I ever witnessed..especially when Bettega did a brutal foul on David O'Leary..and didn't get sent off! It's lovely they kept that tradition and the marble halls are class. Hard to think we moved from there nearly 18 years ago. Nice video 👍
I first professional stadium attendance was old Trafford around 1988/89. 11yrs old in the stretford end. Deepdale I went regular in the early 90s, old rickty plastic pitch, old wooden benches for seats but mainly standing, they had a massive standing end also. I liked Goodinson, nestle inbetween houses, old style and chippys and pubs around.
Thanks for your great video local pensioner brought back some great memories used to be a season ticket holder and can I say good luck to your famous team Man Utd 😊
Thanks for watching 😊👍🏾
so sad to see these great old grounds gone another good day out deacent badge stalls good places to get something to eat used to work arond highbury many years ago like most grounds it was so mucb better when it was standing think the away fans was in the clock end from what i can remember they turned the su''prters club at the boleyn in to aym so nice to see arsenal have kept all these great featues another great and very intresting blog thanks ryan so sad to see the demise of these grounds thanks again steve
Cheers again Steve! This was nice to see and not as sad as the Boleyn demolition - I’m at Pompey on the 15th for that badge 👍🏾 you’ll have to do a video with me on the channel sharing your memories of the Boleyn or something 😁🍻
great win for you today thought we played ok can not win all the time wish you kept moyes can not stand the bloke be lucky steve @@RysFootyParadise
great video very interesting. cheers
Beautiful. Puts all modern stadiums to shame.
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really enjoyed you video been a Arsenal fan for 45 years used to go Highbury i was 11 and it was £1.80p to stand in 1982 terrific memories of matches there it would have been great to stay but Arsenal couldnt expand with all the surrounding houses thanks again for the video
That was brilliant, man… So glad you like our old gaff as well as the new one. My brother's a United fan, so I understand the antipathy between our two clubs, but the respect you should us on the tour was something that he's never done (unless as something muttered between gritted teeth.) Good on ya - you're always welcome back!
Cheers mate 😊👍🏾🍻
My 1st ever Arsenal game was at Highbury, 1992 , 1st ever game of the newly formed Premier League. My Dad a life long Gooner had past away at Christmas the year before. 2-0 up at half time we went and lost 2-4 to Norwich. Still one of the best experience of my life. Great memories, great video and great stadium
Lovely and unique Highbury! Many happy (and not so happy!) memories of sitting in Block F, Row P, East Stand at the North Bank End. COYG!
I did visit what was Highbury when I did the Emirates stadium tour but only looked at the exterior East stand part, thanks for risking it when showing the former pitch side.
Cheers Martin 😊 the East stand part is still beautiful isn’t it 👌🏾
@@RysFootyParadise Certainly is.
Nice video, I was fortunate to go on a stadium tour during the last season at Highbury.
Bet that was class 🤩
@RysFootyParadise yeah was fantastic. The main tunnel was small. The Arsenal changing room had underfloor heating for around 50 years and overlooked Avenell Road roughly where the gym is.
Great video mate
I miss that stadium been to it quite a few times on matchdays even when it had terracing all around the ground and was like a mini bowl the atmosphere back then was amazing
I'm not afraid to admit it but as a west ham fan I'm completely jealous that Highbury is still like that and you can visit and reminisce also that the Emirates is only across the road in the same area
Same as spurs to be fair
Our history has been destroyed and discarded 😢
Been a fan all my life I'm 80 now I remember seeing the Busby babies in Feb 1958 last game at home at highbury before the tragic air crash.they beat us 5-3
I lived in conewood st opposite the white steps,,and when I was young my mother and I use to sit at the window and we new if arsenal had won or lost because at4.40pm sat afternoon all you had to do was look. at the supporters faces going home.We use to have great times getting all.the players autographs ,ie walley Barnes jimmy Logie,Mel charles, Derrick tapscott,Jack Kersey wondefull times ,never forgotten.So many stories,including going to reserve games and after, taking our tennis
Ball on the pitch and kicking it about untill we were chased off.
Thanks for sharing your stories 😊
Hello mate you should do the besiktas stadium tour Istanbul turkey it’s amazing the most amazing stadium in turkey and the views of the Bosporus are breathtaking 🇹🇷
found the channel by pure accident as i was looking at Arsenal stuff, fantastic tour video of highbury and the emirates one, used to goto games at highbury when i was younger and can honestly say everytimne i went was as exciting as the first, unfortunstly i have not had the oppertunity to goto a game at the emirates which is a real shame, since moving to Gloucester I have not been to 1 game, fully intend to check out all your other videos, great job my man
Gloucester? I'm only round the corner in Cheltenham mate :)
@@RysFootyParadise the posh version Gloucester lol
Great video mate. Brings back many memories of me and my mate, rushing the North Bank turnstiles on match day, to get a good old 2 for 1 entry!! The house you see on the corner of the North Bank and West Stand, was an old parks building I believe. Just further up is an entrance to a park. I might be wrong it was 20 odd years ago now that I was down that way (living in Australia now), but I do remember it being converted at the time. Still miss Highbury massively.
Thanks for watching mate, any other former stadiums worth a visit? 😊
@@RysFootyParadise Would check out the old Wycombe Wanderers, Northampton Town and the old Plough Lane grounds.
Brilliant Ry
Loved Highbury,west stand is where away fans enter the ground.Two bed Flats must be around £700,000.
Holy ground !!....COYG !!..🏐😍😍👍🏐
A beautiful place so missed. Loved Highbury stadium
I’m just glad the East & West stand still look class 🤩
@@RysFootyParadise Those were the best features of that iconic place. My favourite is the Art Deco on East Stand. Glad it was kept as a listed building
Fantastic video of your trip to Highbury. Used to sit in the Clock End Stand. 38,000 close to the pitch. European games under the lights. Highbury is still there, in part. Looking forward to the Emirates Stadium Tour and Museum video. Keep up the Good Work.
Woolwich forever
Should be in the public toilets in Woolwich
Great video mate. Worst thing to happen to our club leaving that place. The club died that day on and off the pitch. Team not on the level it used to be, new type of fan now goes compared to Highbury, and the club overall left behind
People will try and say “Arteta has restored things” but take it from someone who goes away every week & all over Europe, the club isn’t a patch on what it was when we were at Highbury and never will be again
Sad times
i've been a Gooner since the mid 90s and if we didn't leave Higbury we'd be a mid table team now
@@kovaci0000007 based on what mate? Could of done exactly what Liverpool did kept their soul and expanded on Highbury
based on revenue. Anfield has room around it, Highbury did not, unless you build a vertical wall stand@@DMArsenalArchives
@@kovaci0000007 Thank you, you know what you're talking about. You don't let nostalgia and emotions cloud you judgement
Glad you could make it to the home of the invincibles! COYG🔴⚪️
What a place! Still looks great 👍🏾
Nostalgic stadium ngl i remember Ronaldo scoring two goals and shishing the crowd and henry
Yeah I mentioned that when filming but decided to axe my United memories there from the video 🤣
Little cool corner house at the end is an Ecology Center.
Thanks mate 👍🏾
Originally known as Gillespie Road, it was renamed in 1932 after Arsenal Football Club, who at the time played at the nearby Arsenal Stadium. It is the only tube station named directly after a football club.
Hiya Ry, I'm new to your channel, the vlogs I've watched up until now have been good, I'm a Newcastle fan and have been for 30 years, so I'm glad you've done the tour of the stadium, if you get time could you do Brunton Park, Carlisle United's ground, I don't think they do Stadium tours though, Paul Simpson, is a Carlisle lad but played allot of his football for Derby County, and is current Carlisle manager, this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England
Cheers Choppy ill be working my way around the country don’t worry 😁👍🏾 Be cool to check it out
@@RysFootyParadiseNice one Ry
Also I like your unbias views on stadiums and see them as the work of art they were or are
Cheers mate, I love exploring stadiums and looking forward to Bramall Lane tomorrow
The house you asked about with glass used to be a sweet shop
Brilliant tour 👏 really enjoy your videos , from Kev ov Wolves
Cheers Kev 👍🏾
Should rename Emirates to Highbury Stadium
Highbury 😍😍😍
Well it's better than 99.9% of old stadium remains you see these days,worth a couple of photos of course but without the visible red upper tier side panelling of the stunning but short lived North Stand,i find it hard to come to terms with its new use. Personally,i would rather walk through the old East Stand at Brisbane Road,it has an interesting history,and it still looks out onto the pitch of Brisbane Road with it's 3 modern stands. Cant see the tower block in the distance over the terrace anymore,such is the price of progress,but then again i imagine it holds the atmosphere better. Actually,coming to think of it Leyton Orient may well have been the first ground that featured accomadation on its corners. Quite a view those flats have to,as some Derby fans will know 😊
Really random I found this video, and thought I recognised you, I've been following your socials since you were a bodybuilder about 11 years ago 😂 can't wait to watch more of these stadium tours
Oh god 🤣 changed a lot since back then haha cheers for watching the videos mate 👍🏾
I delivered some furniture to a person who owned one of those apartments and the saddest thing was he didn't live there full time and he hated football!Seeing highbury again brought back some good memories though thanks Ry.
Oh gawd 🥲 I dunno why people would live in an old ground if they don’t like football 😁 cheers for watching mate 👍🏾
Thank you from Thai goonner
Really enjoyed the video l grew up in Finsbury Park and went to Ambler Road school the nearest school to Highbury.First game 1960 England v Wales School boy international.The modern house at the end of the video used to be a scrap metal dealer😂
No way haha glad you enjoyed it mate
Always surprising that Arsenal have never won a European cup. They look like such a big club.
Actually they did Cup Winners Cup in 1993/1994 and Alan Smith scored the goal to win 1-0 against Parma
The Buckingham Palace of Football stadiums.
What are your thoughts on what Man Utd should do stadium wise? Redevelop/touch up OT? Tear down OT and rebuild on site? Move location like we did? Or something else? I think whatever option is chosen the result is you will lose that original feeling we all had of the first stadia. However I think we did pretty well at preserving Highbury, while The Emirates Stadium did well eventually. People forget that over the years its had many cosmetic changes to make it feel more homely.
Ideally I’d love a Real Madrid style renovation but because of the railway line next door we wouldn’t be able to do it so will probably end up with a Spurs style new build next door 😊
@@RysFootyParadise I'd have thought you can do a complex bit like city but not as large. Be interesting if you knock down OT and ground share elsewhere for a bit with someone.
COYG
No significant portion of Leitch's original stadium remains today following a series of bold redevelopments during the 1930s.
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Great channel mate, have you been to Leeds United yet
Not yet… shall I take my Man United shirt with me?… 😬
Not fancy doing the stadium of light and roker park?
Deffo will be doing them mate 😊👍🏾 will probably be on a week off from work end the month/beginning March 🍻
@@RysFootyParadise happy days pal looking forward to seeing the videos
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Quick question is your fake Man U third shirt still holding up I was thinking of getting one
Haven’t really worn it much tbh mate but yeah nothing wrong with it 👍🏾
I would love to see you in suffolk one day to visit Portman road. A prober and traditional stadium
Called it the Lighbury because it was always quiet
Only called it that by people that never went there, and people that can't spell.
It will always be remembered as the Lighbury
Highbury the library....jealous fans will make fun...it went quiet when it got boring under Graham. Still one of the best grounds ever! Up the arsenal
Shame that Highfield rd didn't copy this .. at coventry old ground
Because the stands weren’t listed buildings like at Highbury I think 😊
Wait. You can just walk in that side and have a look??
If there’s a nice bloke mopping the floor inside who couldn’t care 😁
COME ON YOU SPURS
Woolwich the original mk dons 🤮, the emeriods is a prototype that should never have been built.
As this guy said old Highbury (library) has not changed it’s still very quiet.
I can’t understand leaving such historic grounds why not do everything you can to develop them. Anfield is the perfect example keeping the history but creating a more modern stadium.
I don’t think they had room to extend, judging by how close the terraced housing close by is 😊
To develop highbury would have meant buying up homes at huge cost London house prices,.each of those terraced houses will likely be £1m each now, and many residents would not move, so it was a non starter. Fans would have preferred that. Arsenal puchased the area close to the ground that was industrial land, they even had a long battle to get that due to businesses refusing to relocate, some i heard on the basis that they were rival fans and would make it as difficult for Arsenal.
The club couldn't enlarge the East / West stands as they're listed buildings. The only option was to develop either end, which they did, but it still wasn't enough.
I walk past this every week never battered an eyelid plus I’m a season ticket holder. We should appreciate our heritage for real!!!
Not to bad for a southwest London club....😂😂😂😂
Only people with Golden hearts want Everton to survive 👇👇