The Arsenal Anniversary Files
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Below are the Arsenal (and occasionally one or two non-Arsenal) anniversaries for today taken from the complete files of over 6000 Arsenal anniversaries which appear on the Arsenal History Society website. An index to the Anniversary files can be found in the right column of this site under “Pages”
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Today’s headlines come from 1999 and 2014.
3 August 1914: Sir Edward Grey, the Foreign Secretary, made a speech in the House of Commons expounding the need for war with Germany, and subsequently made his remark that, “The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.”
3 August 1920: While rioting continued in Belfast 3 there was growing talk about Britain declaring war on Russia in order to “rid Europe of the scourge of communism”
3 August 1968: Continuing the tradition of playing Rangers pre-season as initiated by Herbert Chapman, Arsenal drew 2-2 at Ibrox.
3 August 1998: Scott Marshall transferred to Southampton having played 26 games for Arsenal. He only played twice for Southampton, and one match on loan for Celtic before moving to Brentford, for whom he did play 75 games.
3 August 1999: Thierry Henry signed for Arsenal for the first time, from Juventus for £11m. He played 16 games for Juve and it is said that Arsene Wenger and Henry had regular phone chats during in the seasons before Henry signed for Arsenal.
3 August 2010: Sanchez Watt loaned to Leeds for a season. He had six different loan spells, including two at Leeds, before signing for Colchester in 2013, but was released in 2015.
3 August 2012 Benik Afobe loaned to Bolton all season scoring two goals in 20 games. It was not until his sixth and final loan (to MK Dons in 2014) that he found national acclaim, and signed for Wolverhampton W.
3 August 2013: Arsenal drew 2-2 with Napoli in Emirates Cup
3 August 2014: Arsenal beat Benfica 5-1 in the Emirates Cup with four from Sanogo. Following an anti-BT campaign by Untold and others after BT Sport had made fun of the competition’s points allocation system in 2013 and knocked Arsenal mercilessly in their pre-tournament ads, the corporation suddenly reversed their policy and praised the competition and Arsenal’s quality. It was also the moment when Bellerin shone as a star of the future.
