The Arsenal Emirates stadium may be the crowning achievement of the construction industry this year, but as a venue for a press do its becoming a bit pass茅...
Now I like this time of the year as much as the next person: do after do, free bubbly and sausages on sticks, gossip spreading like the plague. September is, by far, the best month for journalists in this industry to track down a story or some salacious misdeed. So I shouldn鈥檛 really moan but鈥�..
鈥� Can organisations stop having their drinks bashes at Arsenal鈥檚 new Emirates stadium? I know, I know, it鈥檚 probably UK construction鈥檚 big achievement in 2006, and I suppose it鈥檚 fair enough that Sir Robert McAlpine, which built the stadium so brilliantly, has its bash there, but where鈥檚 the imagination?
I鈥檓 sick of taking the same tour, with people swooning over the sight of Thierry Henry鈥檚 shorts hanging up in the dressing room, and sitting in Arsene Wenger鈥檚 dugout seat yet again (I swear I鈥檝e spent more time sat there than he has this season). And worse still, if this is what it鈥檚 like at Arsenal, imagine how bad Wembley will be for corporate entertainment - assuming it鈥檒l ever open, of course.
