You will know by now whether Arsenal in Italy on Wednesday carried on from their racily appealing first-leg home victory over Juventus and are now in the semi-finals of the European Champions Cup. Whatever, last week’s emphatic, even euphoric, Highbury show remains one to bottle up and savour as a memento of north London’s old marble palace before the bulldozers crawl in. Arsenal begin next season at a swish new home down the road. It is 93 years since their first game at Highbury — Leicester Fosse defeated 2–1 in September 1913 — after they leased for 20 years the cricket fields of St John’s College of Divinity (promising not to play matches on Christmas Day or Good Friday; nor did they till 1925).
April, and most League matters seem settled. Surely Chelsea are home and hosed in the Premiership; in the championship Reading certainly are; and the Uniteds of Southend or Carlisle are smoothly docked at the top of the two lower divisions.
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