Take the Picadilly Line nortbound towards CockFosters and you’ll arrive at the Arsenal Station.
The Arsenal football (soccer) club is legendary, playing in the premier league since 1893.
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They average an astounding near-full house at every game.
But when a new stadium was needed,
the “Hillsborough Disaster” loomed large.
Almost 100 people lost their lives in 1989 when a human crush trapped the doomed against locked fences.
Emirates Stadium was designed to eliminate that risk, and I visited on a very rainy English morning to look around.
The path I walked from the tube around the stadium is marked in red.
A large turquoise entry control point also holds the pro shop.
Plus, concrete letters at one of the bridges also help with crowd control.
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Naturally I needed a shirt against the chill. ;-)
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