This Sunday, the Emirates Stadium will again host international football as Gabriel’s Brazil square up to Alexis Sanchez’s Chile. Arsenal’s new stadium has a recent history of entertaining the Seleção, whose friendly games have become something of a global roadshow. But Arsenal have provided the canvas for international football prior to the new stadium and its significant mortgage. Highbury was the venue of an international match or two. None more famous than a 1934 friendly between England and Italy, which has since been dubbed ‘The Battle of Highbury.’ The match was significant for Arsenal not solely because they played genteel hosts. November 1934 saw the peak of Herbert...
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