Win a free copy of the forthcoming volume, “Arsenal: The Chronology”
The details below are taken from the forthcoming volume, “Arsenal: The Chronology” which will place around 5000 important dates in the history of Arsenal in date order, with a line or three on each event.
If you spot an error here, please drop a line to Tony.Attwood@aisa.org and you’ll be entered into a draw to get one of five free copies upon publication. Just one thing on this though, if you can correct the error and give a source for your information, that’s even more helpful, especially on transfer dates, which can be reported as the day a player signed or agreed to sign, or the day he moved, or the day it was reported in the media.
There have of course been other “Arsenal on this day” type books, but never anything remotely as details as this one. I hope you find it fun and informative, which is what it is meant to be.
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11 May 1910: George Leavey, the major shareholder in Woolwich Arsenal, admitted he had not got enough local people to buy shares in the club, and would search for others from outside the area to buy, or else put the club into administration.
11 May 1925: Advertisement for new Arsenal manager appeared in Athletics News after the sacking of Leslie Knighton. The advert ended, Gentlemen whose sole ability to build up a good side depends on the payment of heavy and exhorbitant [sic] transfer fees need not apply. Herbert Chapman applied.
11 May 1948: Arsenal 8 Grimsby 0. Final game for George Male, the first ever player in the League to win the championship six times. He then became a coach at Arsenal who worked with the youth and reserve teams, and as a scout, and he in turn discovered Charlie George. He was also present to watch the double victories in 1971, before retiring in 1975.
11 May 1959: Jimmy Magill signed from Portadown. He went on to play 116 league games before moving to Brighton.
11 May 1960: Racing club de Paris 4 Arsenal 3
11 May 1968: Arsenal 2 WBA 1 made it five straight wins at the end of the season with Gould scoring in each of the last four. Arsenal finished 9th, with George Graham as the top league scorer with 16 goals.
11 May 1972: Quite amazingly for the 3rd year running Arsenal concluded their league season playing Tottenham. This game was lost 0-2 at Highbury as Arsenal come in 5th. The top league goalscorer was Kennedy with 12.
11 May 1982: Arsenal 1 Liverpool 1. Sunderland scored his 11th league goal of the season to make him top scorer. Arsenal won their final game and ended the league in 5th.
11 May 1985: Brian Talbot’s last game. He then played for Watford, Stoke, WBA, Fulham and Aldershot, and was for four years chair of the PFA.
11 May 1988: Last game for Graham Rix. He then played for Brentford on loan and Caen, Le Havre and Dundee. After retiring from playing he went to Chelsea where he became youth team coach and later assistant manager.
11 May 1991: Arsenal beat Coventry 6-1 in the final match of the season, winning the league despite a two point penalty, having just one defeat, letting in just 18 goals and finishing seven points clear of Liverpool. Limpar scored a hat trick.
11 May 1993: Arsenal 1 Tottenham 3 in the last match of the season. Arsenal finished 10th and only 26,393 turned up. It was also Pal Lydesen’s final appearance.
11 May 1997: Paul Merson’s last appearance in Derby 1 Arsenal 3 – the last game at the Baseball ground. Arsène Wenger ended his first season with Arsenal in 3rd on goal difference from Newcastle in second. Ian Wright scored two to make it 23 league goals in 30 starts and was of course top scorer for the sixth year running.
11 May 1998: Arsène Wenger named Manager of the Year. He has since had the award twice more.
11 May 2002: Arsenal 4 Everton 3. League game 38 of the 3rd Double season, completing a 13 match winning sequence and an unbeaten away season. Richard Wright appeared as a sub in order to get a league winners’ medal
11 May 2003: Sunderland 0 Arsenal 4. The second match in the unbeaten 49 and the 564th and last league game for David Seaman – by far the longest serving keeper in Arsenal’s history.
11 May 2005: Arsenal 7 Everton 0. The last Highbury game in red and white, the conclusion of a 12 match unbeaten run in the league, and the largest Premier League win, equalled on 14 January 2006.
11 May 2008: Sunderland 0 Arsenal 1 ended Arsenal’s season with four successive wins to come third. Walcott scored the goal.
11 May 2014: Norwich 0 Arsenal 2, as Arsenal made it five straight wins scoring 12 and letting in two to finish fourth in the League. Ramsey and Jenkinson scored.
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