Animis

Hard to believe we were competing at the highest level with these 30 years ago - how far have we fallen. I like the architect's comments that the 'the turnstiles are old-school turnstile' - can you imagine what he'd say about ours. Arsenal eye Wembley move as club looks at expanding Emirates stadium By Dave Rogers7 October 2025 North London club wants to take capacity at McAlpine-built ground to more than 70,000. Arsenal is reportedly looking at moving to Wembley stadium while work to expand its home of the past 20 years is carried out. According to the Telegraph, the Premier League leaders want to expand their ground to beyond 70,000 from the current capacity of 60,700. The ground, which was completed by Sir Robert McAlpine, opened in 2006 and at the time was the biggest club ground in the capital. The ground was completed by Sir Robert McAlpine and opened in 2006 But it has been overtaken by the Tottenham Hotspur stadium, built by Mace, and West Ham’s ground at the former Olympic stadium – built by McAlpine but later reconfigured by Balfour Beatty. No details of who has been enlisted to look at the job have been released but the Emirates was designed by Populous – when it was called HOK Sport – who also designed the Tottenham stadium and the Olympic stadium. The practice is considered to be the go-to firm for stadia in this country and overseas and in 2023 the firm’s global vice chair told Building the Emirates was in need of a revamp. Chris Lee said: “We could revisit it. The general admission is a bit tight. The turnstiles are old-school turnstiles. Some of the club levels have been changed, but very little in general admission.” Plans for the expansion are set to include changing the gradient of the stands, adapting the seating plan to fit more fans and potentially raising the roof. Tottenham played at Wembley for nearly two seasons while work to build the club’s new ground was carried out.

Wait on - Ugbo's here.

wonder how many have paid - attendance is 22,200 - 4,000 from Coventry means 18k home fans - surely must be less than 1,000 POTD, although that's too many

good goal but poor defender

Cadamarteri just has no pace unfortunately

habit and hope

i doubt we show replays on the screen anymore - remember Plymouth when the ref watched our 2nd back on the screen then disallowed it

my god - what is the lino thinking - should be removed from duties

he didn't have to do that

we attack in numbers which is really admirable but we don't have a final ball then it ends up breaking down then they attack - at least they're trying but the difference is at each end - they just have more quality so are likely winners.

we didn't deserve that

Brilliant from the keeper

well done Wednesday youth

I wonder if Matos a direct replacement for Hamer?

He certainly seems to have got the squad gelled - great photo from last night - equal excitement and joy from the pros and youth - great to see: