Wigan (4-2) - 7th May 2006

Well if you're saying goodbye to a friend of over 30 years it's a good idea to make it one hell of a party. It's also essential that everything goes to plan and yesterday the football gods worked in perfect harmony. We did, of course, have to win the last ever game at THOF and thanks to our own earthbound god we managed that part. It was also the plan to derail out neighbour's efforts to hang on to the 4th place and the accompanying Champions' League place. So can we all stand up and salute the chefs at the Marriott hotel in London as well as our friends from Upton Park. And so we said our farewells to ex-players, we reaquainted ourselves with the Marching Band and we left the stadium for one last time.

Thank You Highbury you will never leave my heart...