Hi, New here , just wanted to say hello, Im a Gooner through and through, born and bred in highbury, Ive been going to the home of football since I was 4, now 42, season ticket holder for the last 15 years,sort of stumbled across this place by accident but I love what I see.
Let me turn green with envy here over the fact that you've got THOF right around the corner...for American gooners, up against the time difference and the general ignorance toward the beautiful game, catching a game on TV is a small accomplishment in itself, usually involving a trip to the pub bright and early on Saturday morning. On such mornings, I've often spent half-time eating breakast and jotting down on pub napkins ways that my career can take me to London. North London to be exact.
I hear you. It's baffles me that I can barely roll into work before 9am, but I'll have very little trouble getting up at 4:45am saturday to head to the pub and catch the ManU match.
Lansesra and Goonerette, what part of London are you guys in? I'm new here, an American Gooner from the DC area, but I spent last spring studying in London. I took classes at UCL and the University of North London, Halloway Road tube stop--one short of Arsenal!--and lived near Baker St. in central London. I've loved Arsenal ever since Bergkamp signed with them, and was in a north London paradise last spring! Anyways, I look foward to posting here. And Rapids, I too am trying to figure how to move back to London...but not to end up living in a box saying, "Spare some change?" Haaa.
Hey! I went to U of North London too!!!! Good to see a fellow alumnus on the board. One thing I will always remember is walking through a park near Highbury one evening on the way to one of my classes during an Arsenal match (this was before I became a Gooner). All of the sudden I heard huge eruption of cheers from a few blocks away and I thought,"I need to get there someday."
My best Arsenal/North London memory from last spring has to be watching the Man U.-Arsenal match at Old Trafford at the Fitz and Firken pub on Great Portland St. The pub was wall to wall with people, and only about two of them were Manure fans. At one point, they showed a shot of Beckham sitting in the stands, with his head in his lap--probably sobbing. The whole pub errupted in laughter, jeering, and pointing. It was great. After the match ended, somebody yelled "To Highburry!" and the whole lot of them streamed out...but not me, because I had a paper to work on. My friend went called me on my "mobile" and all I could hear was singing, yelling, and car honking. Good times. If it wasnt bad enough that I missed that, I also missed the victory parade because I had to...write another paper (everything being due at the exact same time that Arsenal was winning the double. UNL bastards). From my comp in one of the tower labs, I could hear fans on the street singing "We love you Frediiiiiiiiieeeeee..." and I couldnt believe that I wasnt down there. Oh well, I got A's in my classes... I studied history, what did you study Rapids and when were you there?
I grew up about 10 minutes from unl, Elwood st, where the gunners pub is, my mum now lives off the Holloway rd.
I as well was a student in London for awhile...however my luck was not as good with the arsenal... Lost the League to Manure... Lost in the FA Cup to Pool Lost in UEFA to Valencia I did get to go to highbury once and witnessed a 3-0 loss to Middlesborough, with an own goal on top of things...I'm bad luck and should never return to london again
I only took one class at UNL. I was a sociology major, and my class was at a satellite campus (I forget where exactly), I had to walk through a dodgy part of North London to get there. It was cool though, because my class was at night so I'd go to class and then afterwards I'd stop at this one Irish pub, have a guinness and watch a UEFA or Champs league cup match. Good times.
Dodgy part of North London? Where! I used to go to this pub after my night class there, right across the street--I forget what it was called, but it was a basically a UNL student pub--and have a Guiness for dinner and watch whatever football there was. Very fond memories!
I had to walk up Holloway Rd a ways from the tube station, then take a left and go through about 4 blocks of housing and then walk through this large park, and UNL has a building there.