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Emirates stadium poorly designed?

Been thinking about this over the past few years and would be interested to hear others thoughts.

Back in the days of highbury there was an electric atmosphere within the stadium. Albeit we had world.clasd players but the fans were close.to the pitch.

I feel as tho we could have put more thought into the design of the stadium layout and to bring fans closer to the pitch. The seats are just to widely spread around the stadium making it hard to have that electric atmosphere.

Id be interested to hear fans views on our stadium and what could've or could be done to better it
or to not have the stands designed they way they are. Its as if they wanted to make the stadium look as big as they could so they spread everything.out.

posted on 26/8/21

I think it’s the worst stadium i been too. Seems to be set out for comfort rather than a footy match, and has no real character. Just my opinion and not trying to sh!t on arsenal as a club

posted on 26/8/21

The Emirates, apparently like Wembley, was designed to be a multi use stadium with visions of concerts and such like. The design is intended to allow sound to travel out of the stadium so as not to distort music, etc. Unlike the older stadiums the sound doesnt reverberate around the stadium creating an atmosphere. Or at least this is what was said on another forum when it was discussed recently.

posted on 26/8/21

So the point is, Arsenal stadium is Autistic friendly, very forward imo, Spurs stadium might look expensive or modern but its not Autistic friendly.

The future Stadiums and Airports should be friendly to Autistic people too, less noise pollution is key.

posted on 26/8/21

The seats are great but I do also believe it's designed or rather not designed to enhance the match day atmosphere

Yes people called Highbury the library but the crowd noise was far louder there on a good day than it is on an equivalent day at the Emirates

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posted on 26/8/21

The new generation of fans are the problem. Lots of tourist types too busy with their phones instead of watching the game. I've seen idiot fans turn their back to the pitch to try and get a 'selfie when a player takes a throw. I've seen people talk to each other all the way through the game with barely a glance at the pitch. Others having picnics! The older generation like me despair of these tourist type fans and millennial who don't seem to know how to behave at a match. Highbury was great for chants too. We don't seem to have an imaginative set of chants now either.

posted on 26/8/21

Did you know the stadium was designed by Tom Jones and Christopher Lee?

comment by #4zA (U22472)

posted on 27/8/21

it was maid outta 100% re-cycled pistacchio shells

posted on 27/8/21

I read recently the club was going to work on upgrades on the stadium, starting with cosmetics like actually painting the faded flaking Arsenal badge outside (which is quite fitting reflection of our club at the moment!). But also saw they were upgrading the speakers in the stadium. Don’t know if that might help with the atmosphere a bit.

Think the stadium is fine, like others have said it’s mainly the type of fans. The club still charge a fortune for tickets as if we’re still one of the best teams in the world. So it’s hard to generate a positive atmosphere when you’ve paid £80 to watch Arsenal get bullied off the park by most of the big clubs. Additionally a lot of the stadium can be tourists fans and corporate tickets, it’s an issue for a lot of the teams with big stadiums and expensive tickets

posted on 27/8/21

Stadium feels a bit dated already and its only 15 years old.

I feel like it should have been bigger too

posted on 27/8/21

The club give up some corporate bods, give less tickets to random Emirates flyers and more to actual fans. They also need to make use of the wonder of technology and actually look to see just which season ticket holders are sat giving it the Sammy Silent through matches (easy enough with camera footage). strip all plastics of their tickets, give them a refund and re-sell worthy fans willing to make a racket even when the team's 2-0 down.

Could have a whole fan renewal campaign, slogan...

"If ya don't cheer, ya out on on ear."

That'd soon get matchday pumpin' again. Assuming they've also sacked Arteta by then. EVen fans who love to cheer are at a loss with that at the helm.

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