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When Arsenal moved to the Emirates, Islington council was so far up their rectums that they did not do what any other local autority would have done and insisted that Arsenal pay for the provision of peoper tube stations to allow supporters into and out of the ground without driving. Instead they just bent over and greased what needed greasing. They also used the Emirates as an excuse to extend the match day no parking area and got money in from fining locals for parking near their homes. The one concession that Islington did squeeze out of Arsenal was a provision that a certain number of season ticket shad to be sold to locals. Sadly only the local lawyers and bankers who, hitherto had followed rugger, could afford them. So they now have a stadium filled with recent moneyed twerps with no sense of tradition bleating on about their history and everyone else running for the tube just after half time.