Nah stadium is alright. Fans are mute caants

Think around the time the stadium got built we were spoilt with our return on football and trophies and that just brought through a different kinda fan

Problem is you had louder speakers at Highbury to generate the noise as well as sub woofers to give that feeling of presence.

The only subs you have now belong in league one and all your speakers have retired.

Our old ground was oft referred to as the "Highbury Library".
Going to all seater probably had as big an impact.

Love the Spurs stadium, they really thought about acoustics and the noise from the kop stand is epic.

I'm with Serial and T-Bag on this one, it's not the stadium it's the fans in it. Between the corporate bods, prawn sandwich crew and a generation of fans who grew up at the top, they will only cheer and make noise when they're winning or look like they're going to score, outside of that, near silence all the time.

When the Emirates crowd is ready it can blast a serious din out of that stadium, it's just that unlike other PL clubs our fans don't (and never have since about 2010) get behind the team when it's not plain sailing. Arsenal FC at the Emirates has no "12th man." A generation of spoilt fans have apparently sacked him. Shame they won't get behind doing the same with Arteta.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

it was maid outta 100% re-cycled pistacchio shells

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

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

I feel like it should have been bigger too

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.