In what respects streets ahead? Scale, yes. Great atmosphere at The Amex today, way louder than both times I've been to Emirates...and that pint of Harveys at half time compared to a plastic bottle of Carlsberg.
Would that be one of the boxes that were mainly empty on Wednesday night because the corporates can only get freeloaders in on the "big" nights to rattle their jewellery? And if your experience of Emirates is in a corporate box area of the ground how can you tell me that the concourse...
Yes it is fantastic in certain respects, mainly scale, but my point is that people moan about aspects of The Amex experience but what we have stands up very strongly and is better in many ways than The Emirates.
So a friend gave me a ticket to see Arsenal V Hull on Wednesday night and it was interesting to compare what the Gooners have compared to us and the typical gripes we get on NSC. So, in my opinion:
Stadium: the Amex is a better piece of design, definitely more interesting on the eye. The...