Ever played at highbury?!

[carbrochuretom]

Yesterday when my sister cam home from uni, she said a friend asked her to "play at highbury" Being as we are both Gooners, it seemed to hard to be true. So today I went along with my sister, I went into the marble halls and was given a "spectators" wrist band while my sister smiled with glee as she walked off down the hallway into the dressing rooms.

10 minutes past and I was watching her run around from the East Stand. Then all of a sudden "WE NEED MORE PLAYERS" i heard that and belted it down the stairs....and hey presto I WAS PLAYING ON THE PITCH ASWELL

Still cant believe it! I played 4 small - half pitch matches for the "North Bank" Team. There were 10 teams...4 Veteran teams (North Bank, West Bank, East Bank & South Bank), 4 Young teams (18-28, North Bank, South Bank, West Bank, East Bank) and then 2 ladies teams which were East and North Banks. Then I played a 15 minute game on the full pitch. As we all wanted to score we chose a rolling attack as our tactic. Once we shot we would head to defend and let others attack. Didnt really work out tat way though...it was more of a 8-1-1 formation As a result we did lose....and unfortunatly I didnt score BUT...as I was finishing I ran over towards the North Stand goal and walloped the ball in! That was my goal at highbury!

After I was given a medal to say I had played there, some other goodies, photos, a flag thingy and met Mr Charlie George...Arsenal Legend! He presented the trophies and stuff.

Just thought I would share it...pretty awesome experience!

Not very nice photos of me below...the T-shirt I was given was hmmm somewhat petite! In the first picture...my sister is 2nd from left