Aside from the daily videos on days where there was an Arsenal game of note that we can commemorate we are also building the video collections, where we focus on matches against just one club. We’ve just added Manchester United to the series: Arsenal v Manchester United: 11 brilliant videos – free to view
Details of the video collections where we gather together the videos relating to Arsenal games against one specific opponent are on the home page while the list of the 270+ videos we have gathered commemorating events on individual days are to be found via this link.
Today’s Arsenal anniversaries are published below. We don’t have a video for this day but another collection from a particular club will go up shortly.
The Arsenal History Society is part of the Arsenal Independent Supporters Association – a body which gives positive support to the club, and has regular meetings with directors and senior officials of the club to represent the views of its members to the club. You can read more about AISA on its website.
For advertising contact Snack Media at 0207 272 7582 or email Tom@Snack-media.com
For all other issues please contact Arsenal History Society at Tony@schools.co.uk
100 Years in the First Division: the absolute complete story of Arsenal’s promotion in 1919.
And here are … the anniversaries
? June 1892: Alf Singleton and Henry Stewart surprisingly failed to get elected to the committee running Royal Arsenal – the first sign of the split within the club that ultimately led to the formation of professional Woolwich Arsenal and amateur Royal Ordnance Factories as two separate clubs.
? June 1893: In response to the demand for a much higher rent for the Invicta Ground Woolwich Arsenal instead purchased the Manor Field opposite the Invicta as their new ground.
? June 1913: William Hall resigned as a director of Fulham, allowing him to focus full-time on the preparation of the Highbury ground and taking Woolwich Arsenal FC to Islington for the 1913/14 season.
1 June 1940: Arsenal 5 Southampton 0 in the final wartime League South “C” Division game. Because of the abandonment of the actual League programme after three matches the wartime league had not started until the end of October, hence its late finish. The next season however still started in August.
1 June 1953: Alex James died suddenly from cancer on 24th anniversary of his signing. During the war he served in the Royal Artillery, and in 1949 he was invited back to Arsenal to coach the club’s youth sides. He was mentioned in the 1930s song “With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm” by Stanley Holloway.
1 June 1955: Ben Marden was transferred to Watford. Although playing only 42 games for Arsenal these included the last game of the 1952/3 season to win the league and Liverpool 1 Arsenal 5 on 15 November 1952.
1 June 1979: West Bromwich Albion who had just had their best season since winning the league for the one and only time in 1920, decided to sell winger Laurie Cunningham to Real Madrid for £995,000. It caused uproar. The end of football was predicted by the media. As ever, they were wrong.
1 June 1999: Moritz Volz joined Arsenal from Schalke. He stayed for five years but never played a league game (but did play two league cup games) before being loaned to Wimbledon and finally transferred to Fulham.
1 June 2001: Lee Conoville transferred to Torquay on a free transfer. He had had a short loan spell with Northampton before playing 112 league games for Torquay, scoring two goals.
1 June 2001: John Lukic retired from football. He is one of just a tiny number of players who have played top flight football across four decades. Others were Peter Shilton, Steve Ogrizovic and Sir Stanley Matthews.
1 June 2002: Sol Campbell, David Seaman and Ashley Cole featured in England’s 1-1 World Cup draw with Sweden.
1 June 2003: Philippe Senderos joined Arsenal from Servette having played 26 games in one season with the club. He went on to play 84 times for Arsenal across four seasons before moving on loan to Milan.
1 June 2007: Gilberto Silva captained Brazil against England, becoming the first and thus far the only Arsenal player ever to captain Brazil. In the last minute of the game Gilberto Silva provided the cross that allowed Brazil to score to make it 1-1.
1 June 2010: Aaron Ramsey signed a new long term contract having signed for Arsenal in 2008 and having made 27 league appearances in his first two seasons.
1 June 2010: Silvestre and Gallas left Arsenal at the end of their contracts. Silvestre moved on to Werder Bremen while Gallas went on to play for Tottenham Hotspur.
