All of us miss Highbury. Some of us miss it more than others. My son and I waited five years for our season tickets and there we are in the family enclosure which was never going to be the loudest part of the stadium - ever. My boy is now 13 and he has had to put up with a lot of moaning from me about how it's just not Highbury. Well that's bloody obvious but what really gets to the heart of issue is where are we.

Plus side- we can now walk to and from the ground from Camden mainly because the thought of being marshalled by an army of police to hang around Highbury and Islington or Finsbury Park is too horrible a thought and life is too short.

Great view- Eight rows from the corner flag

Nice people- but very, very quiet

Down side- No soul and no memory. Okay some of this will inevitably fix itself over the years and by the time my son is a decrepit, whingeing old fart like me then there will be memories aplenty. But, and it's a big but, the club should and must plaster the new place with memories of the old. The shiny metal stantions or poles outside the stadium should have six feet screen prints of Arsenal legends draped from them like a bit of Rome in North London. The insides should be chock full of murals and photos. And surely there is some way of getting a modern version of the old clock at what should be the new Clock End. Every time I start singing 'We're the West Stand' I remember I'm in the lower orange quadrant and the words die on my lips. We can't just ditch 93 years of North Bank and Clock End like that.

Hopefully the old banners will help and the club will slap some paint over the concrete in the closed season. What surprises me is why they didn't do it for the first season. We don’t want Highbury Mk II but we do want to have visual reminders, lots of visual reminders of our history. Don't just stick it in a museum, stick it on the bloody walls. Old signage, crests, photos, murals. Make it feel like it's our place not some stadium we just happen to be renting.

I don't think that's whingeing. Football and Arsenal is as much about the past as the present and the future. With any luck Wenger is about to write a new, wonderful chapter in our new home. But can we have the past back too, please?