Highbury. "The Home of Football". Words not to be taken lightly from Englands 'Establishment' club. With a history so honour laden and renouned around the world, Highbury is one of the homes of English football history itself.

Which is the problem.

How does a club which attracts 73,000+ for Champions League matches (held at Wembley, to capacity) accommodate everyone in a ground which only holds 38,500? Answer: it doesn't! The waiting list to purchase season tickets at Highbury is currently seven years. Match tickets sell out within a few days (and you have to be a member just to have a chance - no guarantees - of getting them). There are no plans to expand Highbury.

Actually, that's not true. The plans exist, but so does the opposition from local residents to any further expansion. The largest stand at Highbury - The North Stand - was built upon the remains of the famous North Bank and completed in 1993. There was fierce opposition then too, and the club were restricted to building only as high as the existing structures. Of Highbury's 38,500 capacity, 12,000 are seated in this stand. Ideally, the fans would like to see a continuous 'North Stand' created all around the ground, but even without the spectre of fierce local opposition, Arsenal have another hurdle. The famed 1930's Art Deco East Stand (See Highbury (2) and (3) for details).

Again, this was one of the first images I created, using a disposable camera. There are better images throughout this gallery which do the stadium justice, but it's easy to see why Highbury is such a great stadium to photograph. The contrasts between Art Deco and concrete monster Clock End; the traditional individual structures compared with todays expedient bowls. It truely has character and beauty lost in todays modern stadia design.

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