10 years ago this week (indeed, to this day if you are reading on Friday) the Emirates Stadium hosted a fixture for the first time. I was 22 years old the summer that the club closed the doors on Highbury for the final time. I had been a season ticket holder for 14 years at that point and was also about to embark on my first full time job, having graduated from university. So I hope it doesn’t sound saccharine when I say that the chrysalis from Highbury to Emirates reflected my own ascension into adulthood. I was old enough and fortunate enough to have been to Highbury on literally hundreds of occasions and to consider it a second skin. But I was young enough to see Emirates as my...
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