What's Wrong With Arsenal's Stadium?

Arsenal have the most expensive season tickets in the Premier League. Back in 2006 the Emirates Stadium was opened with a claim to be one of the best stadiums in football. But a lot has changed within the world of matchday experience.

And Arsenal fans have a right to demand state of the art experience. So what needs to change?

Seb Stafford-Bloor explains, Marco Bevilacqua illustrates.

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[Pax_Veritas]

As an Arsenal fan I'd say the biggest problem with the Emirates stadium is the other teams that keep coming to it and beating us

[John-widm]

If they were to bring the Clock End and North Bank much closer to the pitch and introduce safe standing, it'd be such a good stadium.

[arsenewenger]

Nothing is wrong with it! I built it myself!

[darrenasquith]

As a Liverpool fan I think the Emirates is up there with the best grounds I've been to. Well organised, easy access, caters for the away fan and decent priced drinks. Seats are spacious too. Obviously spurs new ground is newer and slightly better. I mean no WiFi is just plain moaning. I had 5g full signal anyway all game. Bear in mind you cannot even get a phone signal in anfield when it's full due to the number of phones in that area. A video for videos sake. It's a great stadium

[nunu]

The Emirates was really unfortunate timing — seems like it was *just* early to miss the major stadium upgrades that the newer stadiums have. Crazy to think how much money goes into these stadiums (we’ve had a couple few stadiums built/upgraded here in California recently, and they’re all beautiful but woah what a price tag), but fans deserve great match day experiences from the moment they get to the ground to the moment they leave.

Would be awesome to get a video on something like the transformation of fan matchday experiences as money has flooded into football, to see if teams are really investing this new money in ways that fans can tangibly enjoy.

[manish]

Ah the wonderful memories of Highbury!
Henry, Bergkamp, Pires and Viera tearing the premier league apart every week. It had passion, soul and most importantly the fans much closer to the action.
The new stadium is great and but you need a binoculars to tell whether it was Fabregas or Nasri on the ball.

[mr.bluenotedoobop]

I did the tour when I was in London back in 2019. I thought it was beautiful, I spoke to one of the grounds keepers about the grass and the whole system that's built underneath, which I found rather impressive. My only surprise was it's location, just tucked away in a neighborhood of apartments and cafe's, you almost didn't know it was there.

[ThamFu]

Sorry I had to laugh when he said the emirates stadium looked outmoded and then compares it to a stand built at Anfield. Otherwise, great video..

[ravenbeale]

I’m a season ticket holder at Arsenal and to the contrary I’m usually surprised at how dated/poor quality stadiums of other teams are. Haven’t noticed any of these minor issues.

[leojohnson-lay]

I remember noticing the leaking roof at the wolves game, thinking it ent even rained today!

[Channy]

As a Leeds fan I kinda these complaints are kinda funny. Sounds like 1st world problems to not have wifi - we barely have mobile signal lol. But most of us don't really care - we're there to see football.

[mattduin]

Being an aussie gooner, ive only been to the old highbury now that it is a block of apartments. Even now what stood out to me is that at highbury the fans were basically on the pitch. There was very little gap between the goal and the front row, it must have been super intimidating for away fans to play in that atmosphere.
I never understood why that atmosphere wasnt recreated at the emirates, why the fans are so far back, and why it just looks like every other big stadium

[Jk-nsmx]

Was always peed off that Wenger and his pals didn’t increase the number of rows of seating on lower tier in order to make it more intimidating and atmospheric - there are at least 15 rows less than what there should be. Also the acoustics could have been much better IMO as the noise tends to flow out of the ground via the huge open gaps around the upper tiers! Could have produced a much more imposing stadium instead of a theatre for the prawn sandwich brigade.

[soso-V]

I'm shocked about Wolves' and Brighton's tickets prices ! 😱

[OplzITSCreez]

Modifications to seating would be at the top of my list! Forget screens and cosmetics.
Moving the Clock end and the North bank closer to the pitch, introducing as much safe standing as possible and increasing the gradient in the lower tiers to avoid visibility issues.

Those changes alone would revolutionise the atmosphere and match day experience.


A leaking roof is also a priority obviously.

(I hate sitting down at the game!)

[hegeliandianetik]

Did Tifo just put Man United "debating a renovation" in the same group as Tottenham's new stadium, why would you bring up United when they are similarly planning changes just like they are at the Emirates?

[murthisrikanth]

Emirates was a win in effective design and project management. I've been lucky enough to visit the stadium in 2018. Its basic, yes, but it served the purpose well when it was built. There's no point in a flashy stadium that leads to delays and goes over budget. I want the money to stay on the football pitch. And from what I've heard, all the upgrades are sensible. And I loved the food in the stadium. But for season ticket holders, I guess it can become repetitive.

[darthgman]

I moved to Scotland but like to take my 8 yo down for the emirates cup. 3 years on the bounce. I was missing the 3pm vibe of going to matches so I bought a season ticket for us to go to Partick Thistle. Imagine my son's shock after being at the emirates cup on the wednesday and going to his first home game at The Jags. "Dad where's the big screen" "Dad where is the scoreboard" "Dad where's the time".
The Emirates aint that bad after all.

[laurencejstella]

I can tell you that it is not a leaking roof. It is the roof pumps that are not working properly. So sometimes if there has been a lot of rain prior to a game they can sometimes pump out water usually over the payers tunnel but can also happen at the centra of any of the stands.

[dude]

Let's be real season tickets have just been a scam, should have reduced them when we fell into Europa league