This is a page from the Woolwich Arsenal web site which traces and unravels the history of Arsenal FC from the creation of the professional club in Kent, through to modern times. There is an index for the site at www.blog.woolwicharsenal.co.uk
1912/1913 was the final season for Woolwich Arsenal in Kent. It was a disaster, as we ended 20th in division one, and duly got relegated for the only time in the club’s history.
In this series of articles we are looking at the last ever game at the ground. Arsenal v Middlesbrough on 26 April 1913 in front of just 3,000 people.
The series
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- 11 November 1912: Arsenal go nap – five straight defeats
- 4th November 1912 – Slaughtered at home
- 28th October 1912 – Another defeat, but still above Tottenham
- 21st October 1912 – Woolwich Arsenal to move to North London
- 7th October 1912 – Title winning form from Woolwich Arsenal
- Success for Woolwich Arsenal 100 years ago
- Arsenal’s new lottery – they also held one 110 years ago
- Crisis? What crisis? – Woolwich Arsenal 100 years ago this week
- 16th September 1912 – Woolwich Arsenal look set for a season of struggle
The background articles…
The final game at Woolwich 26 April 1913
The final farewell – newspaper report of the last match in Plumstead – part 1
The final farewell – and why we had to move – part 2
And the articles on each member of the team is at
- Goal: O Wilson
- Right back: J Shaw
- Left Back: J Fidler
- Right Half: GM Grant
- Centre Half: PR Sands
- Left Half: A McKinnon
- Outside Right: C H Lewis
- Inside Right : W A Spittle
- Centre Forward: S J Stonley
- Inside Left: A Devine
- Outside Left: G Burrell