I sat high in the North Stand for one of Arsenal’s last games — a patrician dismissal of Everton — at the old Highbury stadium. The vastly bigger and blingier new Emirates ground was about to open nearby. What was going to happen to the old place, I asked as we queued for burgers and beer. They’re going to convert it into housing, they said; the pitch is going to become a new London square. Oh sure, I thought. Like that’s ever going to work.
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