Match Day

16-2-13

So today our football team, Arsenal, took on the Blackburn Rovers in an FA Cup game. Our neighborhood was quite busy, as it always is on match day. Today Tracy and I were around as the neighborhood was gearing up for the match. Now usually every day we see people taking pictures of the front of our building, since it was the previous stadium of Arsenal.

OUR HOME

On match days, we see a lot more of that, as well as food stalls and souvenir stands.

30 meters from our door

The team nickname is The Gunners, the fans call themselves The Gooners

Those are homes, by the way

Scarves are BIG here...it is cold and windy a lot

Highbury is our neighborhood, N5 is our post code

Here is a quick snippet of video of the crowd walking through our neighborhood to the stadium.

Just for comparison, I snapped a photo of the new Emirates Stadium, and then I took a couple pictures of old black and white photos from when our home was the stadium. Actually, it was their stadium just a few years ago, the old pictures are really old.

The pub where the old photos are is called the Gunners Pub. Its a block away. Not a nice Victorian Era pub that you'll find in the guidebooks; it was all about the team there.


Oh, and Arsenal lost 1-0. Blimey.