{"id":5360,"date":"2026-05-07T12:04:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T12:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=5360"},"modified":"2026-05-07T12:04:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T12:04:47","slug":"arsenal-explained-our-last-day-at-highbury-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=5360","title":{"rendered":"Arsenal Explained: Our last day at Highbury | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>In our latest episode of Arsenal Explained, we&#8217;re taking a look back at our final game at Highbury!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On May 7, 2006, we said goodbye to our famous home, and there was plenty on the line as Wigan Athletic visited Highbury for a truly historic occasion.<\/p>\n<p>With a spot in next season&#8217;s Champions League on the line, we needed to better Tottenham&#8217;s result at West Ham United to move above our north London rivals and secure fourth spot.<\/p>\n<p>The game swung one way, then the other, eventually resulting in a 4-2 victory, courtesy of a stunning Thierry Henry hat-trick as we pipped our rivals to UCL qualification.<\/p>\n<p>Watch our special video on the occasion, the celebrations and much more!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Arsenal Football Club Limited. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our latest episode of Arsenal Explained, we&#8217;re taking a look back at our final&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}