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    LearnEnglish

    Arsenal Football Club T-shirts, and it’s also the name of the pub where the
    fans go after the game.

    West Africa is football crazy. Britain is football crazy My favourite Arsenal footballer is Thierry Henry. I have
    too. Britain started the game many years ago in 1863. his shirt. It is red and it has his number, 14. Puma make
    the Arsenal shirts. Henry’s shirts are very difficult to
    There are 20 Premier League football clubs in Britain buy, but I have one.
    and six of them are in London. My favourite London
    football team is Arsenal. I live near the Arsenal stadium Arsenal plays good football. 2004 was a good year.
    – it is only 200 metres from my house! I can hear the Arsenal won 49 games and won the Premier League –
    Arsenal game at the weekend. I can see the players the prize for the best club. It won the FA Cup in 2006,
    come to the stadium in their cars. I can watch the fans 2014, 2015 and 2017.
    go to the stadium on the bus or by the London Tube.
    I can watch them buy hamburgers and sandwiches
    outside the stadium. Then they go in to watch the New words for this article
    game.
    Stadium the place where Arsenal pays
    The fans are very happy – they like the Arsenal club. football
    The players are very happy – they get a lot of money Fans the people who like Arsenal
    when they play football for Arsenal. The Arsenal Club the organisation
    players get more than £100,000 every week! Tube the famous train in London (it is
    under the city)
    Two famous managers of Arsenal are George Graham Manager the boss of the club
    and Arsene Wenger. Wenger started in 1996 and Premier League the list of the best clubs in UK
    worked at the club until 2018. He is the first manager
    to win seven FA (Football Association) Cups – the prize
    for the best football club in Britain. Wenger retired in Comprehension Questions
    2018. The new manager is Unai Emery from Spain.
    1 What is the name of the Arsenal stadium?
    2 What was the old name?
    Arsenal has many famous footballers. Some are from
    3 When did Arsenal start to play?
    Africa. Nwankwo Kanu, Emmanuel Adebayor, and
    4 Who is a famous player?
    Kolo Toure all played for Arsenal. Patrick Vieira (from
    France), Sol Campbell (from England) and Thierry
    Henry (from France) also played for Arsenal.

    Arsenal is an old club. It started in London in 1886. In


    1913 it went to the famous Highbury Stadium. The fans
    came to Highbury Stadium by Tube to Gillespie Road
    station. Now it is Arsenal station. The city changed
    the name of the Tube station from Gillespie Road to
    Arsenal station. They wanted to help fans find the
    stadium easily.

    In 2006 the club got a new stadium, the Emirates


    Stadium. The new stadium cost £390 million. It has
    the name of the Emirates airline. The new stadium
    has places for 60,000 fans. It is always full, because
    Arsenal is a very popular club.

    The old Highbury Stadium is still here, but now it is


    4 Thierry Henry is a famous player.
    a place for people to live, not play football. The old
    3 It started in 1886.
    stadium is now apartments. Arsenal fans like to buy the
    2 Highbury Stadium
    apartments so they can live in the old stadium.
    1 Emirates Stadium
    Questions de compréhension en lecture
    The club has 2 names. The real name is Arsenal
    Comprehension questions
    Football Club, but the fans’ name for the club ‘The
    Gunners’. This is the name you can see on some
    Answers

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