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from arsenal.com

Arsenal Football Club's fantastic new Emirates Stadium has reached practical completion with final preparations being made ahead of the first ever match to be held there in only five days time, Dennis Bergkamp's Testimonial on Saturday, 22 July.

After 123 weeks and two days, and six million man hours since work began on the new stadium, Emirates Stadium is now just five days way from hosting it's first ever match, 68 days after the final farewell to Highbury.

20,000 supporters will also get the chance to have the very first look at the new stadium ahead of the Testimonial, as part of a 'Members' Day' initiative for Arsenal members on Thursday, 20 July.

Arsenal Manager, Arsène Wenger, commented:

"Everyone at the Club has worked really hard on the stadium project and have done so well in getting it ready on time. It has been seven years since the Club first announced the initial plans for the new stadium but I'm sure the fans will agree it has been worth the wait when they experience the fantastic new facilities and great views as they take their seats for the first time.

"We are delighted that the stadium has reached practical completion and are really looking forward to what we hope will be a very successful first season and future at our new home. It is a fitting tribute that the first match at Emirates Stadium and a new chapter in the Club's history gets underway with a match in honour of a true Arsenal Legend, Dennis Bergkamp."

Arsenal's new 60,000 capacity Emirates Stadium is 41.4 metres from ground level to its highest point and covers a site of 17 acres. The four tiers of seating will all be covered by a roof of approximately 27,200m2.

Over 9,300 construction employees have worked on site at the stadium in which 55,000 cubic metres of concrete, 10,000 tons of steel reinforcement and 15,000m2 of glazing has been used. 3,000 tons of tubular steel in the main roof and 4,500 metres of metal hand railing are included within the stadium which also has over 2,000 doors and 100 flights of stairs.

Emirates Stadium has the capacity for up to 250 Wheelchair Users and 250 Ambulant Disabled spaces, provided at all public and corporate levels throughout the building. There are 150 Executive Boxes, compared to 48 boxes at Highbury, which have the total capacity to serve up to 2,000 meals on a matchday. 250 catering serving points feature around Emirates Stadium and over 900 WCs, together with 370 metres of urinals and 113 Disabled toilets will be in use.

The overall project, which cost £390 million in total and required 2,500 legal documents to be signed to get clearance, will create 2,600 new jobs and over 2,500 new homes in the London Borough of Islington.

also rumour going around for members day that the team have been called back to train on thrusay (minus ashley cole although that iis probably a good thing)

Don't know how true it is as interview with Cesc said that training started on monday 24th

well for members day they will probably have the usual competition of trying to win the players training tops.

My dads says hes leaving straight after the training (charming :) ) he says has better things to go :(


Plus when i went and got my shirt yesterday they still have A LOT of work to do around the stadium it still looks like a building site and i think it will probably take quite a few months.

Also if anyone needs help in how to get to the stadium or shop then you can pm me as because i'm local i know quite easily how to but found the maps arsenal sent to be quite confusing (the club have done a lot of signposts)

my cousin found out yesturday that he got a job as an arsenal stewguard (ingnore spelling). :D :D
so i'll prob be able 2 get in the stadium for free!!!!! :D :D (well hopefully)
u never know if i can get in i might be able 2 meet the arsenal squad :D :D

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cool...but he mustn't watch any of the games :)

i'm like a little kid again waitng for christmas day i'm soooooo excited about tomorrow :D

i've just got back from members dayy...wow what a stadium :o

wasn't to impressed with the activities going on in lower tier so left after training....also the que for the shop :o :blink:

took lots of photos will load them up

here are a few picture that i uploaded from imageshack of th photos i took today at members day(well my dad took some)....i chose a few and did thumbnails so not to take up a lot of space but you can click on them for larger pictures













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ahhh just got back, training was cool and the stadium was amazing, but didn't stick around for the activities, went to the shop tho, got new arsenal shirt. Will try and post some of my pics l8r! :arsenal:

u no u have the pic of da tele dat is near were i was siittin i was block e in 102

WOW the stadium looks well cool inside, can't wait till my cousin gets me and my bro in for free!!!!!!
thanxs for the photos GoonerLizzy they're cool

bring on the new season can't wait 2 watch a live match there!!!!! :D
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hmmm how do u post pics? it won't let me! :(

go to this link http://s10.invisionfree.com/IkerReyes/inde...p?showtopic=752 and amirah_as has very kindly put a link to them all...i used the imageshack one. Then click on browse find where your computer has kept the photo and then press host...then copy and paste the link for forums onto you thread...hope that helps .probably haven't made any sense

did one of the players today nearly faint?

I missed that bit probably when me and my dad were walking round the stadium to get different views from different blocks...but arsene said at the end ......was taken off because he was feeling very faint and he is very young but i missed out who it was.

i diddnt see any1 go offf wz it flamini cz he was tlkin 2 AW and i didnt c him again

we left afteerr traning 2 go 2 da shop . mi dad was in there n we mised da que cz da very nice man let us in the exit.

it may have been i thought i heard wenger say flamini and the and hes young (although hes 22 which is old now for arsenal :D )

i'm quite surprised it isn't on the arsenal website!!!!

anyway it wouldn't surprise me if he nearly fainted it woz very humid 2day.

i for 1 would know as i go jogging every day but in todays humid weather i nearly fainted. (good job i didn't jog for very long)

dunno, didn't c a player faint, but i tend to get distracted easily haha. Did any of those balls they kicked go near u today? All of the ones near us ended up in the lower tier, except one that Poom kicked, although i terrified it would wack me in the face haha :header:

no they didn't go anywhere near us...one did go quite near where me and my dad were originally sitting but most ofthem went into the lower tier.