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Photo Daily: Home Dressing Room Bath, Highbury

Tom Dunmore — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:24:52 +0000

How Arsenal players used to keep themselves clean.

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Photo Daily: Sleep Football, Think Football, Eat Burgers

Tom Dunmore — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:53:48 +0000

A burger stand on Gillespie Road,the day of Arsenal's final game at Highbury Stadium, May 7th 2006.

Photo credit: Herschell Hershey on Flickr, via the Pitch Invasion Photo Pool.

Photo Daily: Demolition of Highbury

Tom Dunmore — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:20:52 +0000

The west stand of Highbury being demolished in 2006, home of Arsenal since 1913.

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Classic Programmes #4: Arsenal’s First Game Under Floodlights

Tom Dunmore — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:54:16 +0000

Our Thursday programme series last week went back 56 years, to the first ever floodlight match at Tottenham Hotspur’s White Hart lane. Today, we hop across North London to Highbury, and Arsenal’s first major floodlit fixture against Hapoel Tel Aviv.

Programme cover courtesy of the highly-recommended Footysphere.

Our new Thursday series looks at classic football programmes, that perfect accompaniment for a trip down memory lane. This week: we go back 56 years, to the first ever floodlight match at Tottenham Hotspur’s White Hart lane, with the programme’s cover promising Spurs were in for “very attractive visitors” and “very sporting opponents” with the visit of Racing Club de Paris.