This index is still under construction. Previous indexes in this series are
- Part One: 1886 and on to the first world war
- Part Two: – from the first world war into the 20s
- Part Three – the 1930s
- Part Four: The 1940s:
- Part Five: The 1950s
Jon Sammels: wonderful player, victim of the 1960s Anti-Arsenal “fans”
Ron Greenwood at the Arsenal: was he the cause of the failure from 1958 to 1961?
20 August 1960: Alan Skirton plays his first game for Arsenal
5 December 1921 & 1960: women’s football banned, and the London Cup final
1962: When the Arsenal manager was sacked but told to carry on
16 March 1962. Arsenal appoint a novice manager – with disastrous results
16 July 1962: Joe Baker signed for Arsenal.
Tommy Caton 1962-1993
24 February 1964: William Garbutt – Arsenal’s original Herbert Chapman
Arsenal v Blackburn 1964, and the promise of a heated pitch
12 February 1966: Joe Baker played his last game for Arsenal.
5 May 1966: just 4,554 turn up for an Arsenal home league game
1966 – the early days of Mee and only seeing half the pitch
100 seasons in the top division. The rebirth of Arsenal 1967-68
21 March 1966: Martin Hayes, season top scorer, was born
1967/68 League Cup Campaign: when the rebirth of Arsenal began
29 May 1968 Sammy Nelson’s first team debut in a 4-0 victory over Japan
Arsenal anniversaries 15 March: in 1969 one of the darkest days in Arsenal’s history
17 December 1969: when we started to wake up that something was happening.
100 seasons in the top division – 1969/70, and building a new team
Arsenal in the 70s, part 1: the re-birth of the club. 1969/70
