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14 February 1891. Arsenal beat Crusaders 1-0 in the London Charity Cup This was Arsenal’s second and final entry into what is a rather mysterious Cup competition of which few details remain, and they were knocked out in the next round, after two replays, by Old Carthusians.
14 February 1912: Bryn Jones (whose transfer smashed the transfer record) born in Merthyr. He played for a variety of clubs including Merthyr Amateurs,Glenavon and Aberaman Athletic, before signing for Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1933 for a fee of £1500.
14 February 1920: Arsenal lost 3-0 to Oldham in front of 14,000. However results elsewhere meant Arsenal stayed in 11th – and mid table security was the target in the first year back in the 1st division. But Arsenal had lost four and won just one game in the last five and were in need of a change of fortune if they were to avoid slipping back towards division 2.
14 February 1925: The International Board experimented with the proposed new offside law in the Arsenal v Huddersfield Town game. The build up to the event and the meetings and agreements that had to be arranged may have secured Chapman’s arrival at Arsenal in the summer, for it certainly showed that where tactical changes were required, Chapman was the man. Huddersfield won 5-0 which did little for Arsenal’s precarious league position but a lot for the future of the club. It was Arsenal’s worst home defeat since 28 October 1893 when Arsenal lost to Liverpool by the same score. See also here. This was just one of a number of games that used the new law before it was introduced.
14 February 1925: Dan Lewis was dropped from the Arsenal team for the first time but was reinstated in time for him to play in the 1927 Cup Final, where Dan made the mistake that led to Cardiff’s victory.
14 February 1927: Dan Lewis made his Welsh international début against England, two years to the day from his Cup Final disaster, subsequently winning two more caps for his country.
14 February 1931: Arsenal were top of the league and on this day at home to Derby, secured that position winning 6-3, the goals coming from a Bastin hattrick, James, Hulme and Jack.
14 February 1970: Arsenal 0 Chelsea 3. Last senior appearance of Bobby Gould. He went on to play for West Bromwich Albion (then managed by Don Howe) and then Bristol City, West Ham, Wolverhampton (for a second time), and Bristol Rovers (as player coach), before moving into management. He finally retired in 2012 after managing Wanderers FC of Upper Norwood.
14 February 1978: For the second leg of the League Cup Semi-Final 49,561 came to Highbury in the knowledge that the 1-2 defeat in the first leg should have given Arsenal a strong chance to reach Wembley. But Liverpool “used their long experience in two-legged affairs” (as the press would have it) or in common parlance played for a boring 0-0 draw, and got what they came for.
14 February 1989: Arsenal 2 France 0. Hayes and Smith scored. This friendly was part of the League’s attempt to rehabilitate English football with Europe having been banned due to Liverpool fans’ behaviour in the European Cup Final.
14 February 1991: Herschel Oulio Sanchez Watt born. He never played a league match for Arsenal, and after half a dozen loan spells settled at Colchester. He was last heard of playing for Wealdstone in 2019.
14 February 1995: Glenn Helder signed from Vitesse Arnhem. After leaving football he admitted to attempting suicide because of his gambling addiction. In 2007 he served a prison sentence for threatening one girlfriend and abusing another.
14 February 1996: Arsenal 2 Aston Villa 2, league cup semi-final. Bergkamp got both goals. The second leg one week later was a goalless draw, and Arsenal went out. It was the nearest Rioch got to a trophy with Arsenal.
14 February 1997: John Hartson sold to WHU for £5m. He later set up a foundation to raise money to fight testicular cancer and became a pundit with BBC Radio.
14 February 2002: Kolo Toure signed for Arsenal from ASEC Mimosas for £150,000. He played 225 league games for Arsenal, before leaving for Manchester City. In February 2019, Brendan Rodgers left Celtic for Leicester City, and Touré also joined Leicester as a first team coach.
14 February 2005: Arsenal 5 Crystal Palace 1, this was reported by the media as (shock horror) the first Premier League match with no Englishmen in the starting XI for Arsenal or any other team, without any reference to the fact that Liverpool had played the FA Cup final of 1986 without a single player who could qualify to play for England.
14 February 2014: Chuba Akpom started a loan deal with Coventry. He joined Arsenal aged six, and at the age of 19 started to make first team appearances as a centre forward. In 2015/6 he went on loan to Hull and hit a hattrick in the 4th round FA Cup match that took Hull through to an appearance against Arsenal, in which he could not play.
14 February 2016: Arsenal beat Leicester 2-1 in the League with Walcott and Welbeck scoring – the latter in the 90th minute. Arsenal only won one of the next eight games during which Arsenal went out of the FA Cup and Champions League. But a nine match unbeaten run in the League at the end of the season, helped Arsenal’s league position.
14 February 2019: In a major upset in the Europa League Arsenal lost 1-0 away to BATE Barasov in the Round of 32.
