Day by Day the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order.
Day by Day the stories – a key moment in Arsenal and footballing history for each day of the year
Arsenal today: Leicester v Arsenal: the form guide
100+ Years: the complete story of Arsenal’s promotion in 1919 which launched 100+ consecutive years in the top division.
25 February 1886: Wally Harding born in Greenwich. Aside from playing for Arsenal he also played over 600 first class cricket matches and was later reserve team coach at Tottenham.
25 February 1893: As the club’s existence came to an end Royal Arsenal started to play friendly matches against league clubs such as Walsall Town Swifts – in this case in front of 4000 fans.
25 February 1897: Tottenham 2 Arsenal 2. One of a sequence of six Arsenal v Tottenham games in the United League following the end of friendlies in April 1896.
25 February 1899: First match under Arthur Kennedy. He was finance secretary of the club but filled in as manager after Elcoat resigned mid-season. Sadly he was not recognised as an Arsenal manager by Arsenal.com last time we checked (Feb 2021) but is included in the Arsenal History Society list of managers.
25 February 1905 Arsenal 3 Sheffield W 0 concluded the first ever three match winning run in 1st division, but this game marked the last win until the last day of the season on 22 April.
25 February 1911: Harry Logan played for Woolwich Arsenal 11 times but was only on the winning side once – in the game this day which ended Arsenal 3 Nottingham Forest 2.
25 February 1918: All butchers’ shops were ordered to be open only four days a week as meat rationing was introduced in the UK.
25 February 1919: West Ham lodged their anticipated application to be members of Division II for the 1919/20 season, and started canvassing clubs and the media as Tottenham had already started doing to support its application to stay in the First Division, having finished bottom of the league in the previous (1914/15) season.
25 February 1928: Leicester 3 Arsenal 2. Four defeats and two draws in six saw Arsenal tumble down the league and hope instead for cup glory. Hoar and Buchan scored.
25 February 1933: After four successive draws Arsenal signalled their intent on winning the league by beating Blackburn 8-0. (Coleman 3, Hulme 2, Bastin 2, and Stockill got the goals). Arsenal wore their new kit for the first time but only 27,576 turned up to see it. See also here.
25 February 1939: Last match for Wilf Copping. He returned to Leeds from whom Arsenal had bought him, for 12 last league games. He had made 166 league appearances, won the league twice and the FA Cup with Arsenal. Arsenal lost 2-1 to Preston.
25 February 1961 This was in effect the start of the season’s collapse – of the 12 games to April 29, Arsenal won just two. George Swindin struggled on for one more year before leaving.
25 February 1978: WHU 2 Arsenal 2 made it no wins in four league games.
25 February 1987: Oxford U 0 Arsenal 0. The first of six consecutive league games under George Graham in which Arsenal failed to score – the longest such run ever for the club.
25 February 1998: Crystal Palace 1 Arsenal 2 (Cup 5th round replay on the way to the second Double). Anelka and Bergkamp scored but only 15,674 turned up. The second double: part 1, part 2, part 3.
25 February 2001: Man U 6 Arsenal 1. An Arsenal team with a makeshift defence fell apart in this match after holding the score to 1-1 on 25 minutes, but recovered enough eventually to be runners up in both the League and the FA Cup. It was reported that for once Arsène Wenger lost his temper with his players. Henry, Bergkamp and Vieira all played.
25 February 2006: Blackburn 1 Arsenal 0 making it four defeats, one win and one draw in last six, one of Arsène Wenger’s worst runs.
25 February 2007: Arsenal 1 Chelsea 2, League Cup final; Walcott scored his first goal for Arsenal in a game that went on for 103 minutes.
25 February 2015: Arsenal 1 Monaco 3 in the Champions League. Much was made of Arsenal’s failure and Giroud’s poor form in this match, and many critics used this single game as evidence of the poverty of Arsenal’s team (which won three FA Cups in four years).
25 February 2022: Wolverhampton played their return match at Arsenal with many still angry at Martinelli’s sending off in the reverse fixture in the Midlands earlier in the month. In one of the most negative and foul-laden performances seen at Arsenal in many a year Wolverhampton held on until Arsenal got the winner in the 5th minute of injury time. The noise in and out of the stadium then and thereafter was considered to be by many, the loudest ever heard in the “Emirates” ground. Nicolas Pépé’s winner was awarded the goal of the month.
Henry Norris at the Arsenal: There is a full index to the series here.
Arsenal in the 1930s: The most comprehensive series on the decade ever
Arsenal in the 1970s: Every match and every intrigue reviewed in detail.
