TERRACE TALK: Arsenal: Francis Coquelin lays the groundwork for away win

It was interesting to hear Arsène Wenger describe Selhurst Park in his pre-match press conference as "an old-fashioned stadium with soul", writes Bernard Azulay.

As one of the few grounds to retain the intense atmosphere of old (but mercifully without the nasty undercurrent we experience at White Hart Lane), it’s an obligatory away day outing.

However Palace’s dilapidated facilities remains a bit of a dinosaur in this day and age, and it’s a bit of a chutzpah charging forty quid for the letterbox perspective one endures in the Arthur Wait Stand, constantly dodging around the posts holding up the gantry and the roof, which obscure one’s view the moment the ball goes above head height.