By Tony Attwood
Three last game anniversaries happened on 8 April – or at least three that we have managed to trace.
8 April 1922: Last senior game for Angus McKinnon
8 April 1939: Last senior game for Alex Wilson
8 April 1986: Last senior game for Paul Mariner
The Alex Wilson article will have to wait for another day (unless you would like to write one for me in the next few hours.
But the two players we do have, McKinnon and Mariner, had very different levels of involvement with the club in very different eras, and it is interesting to see how much matters had changed in 64 years.
You can read all of our Anniversaries here
The other main index that we keep building is Arsenal’s Managers which quite possibly has information on managers you might not even know about!
More anniversaries tomorrow.
Recent Posts
- The game against Tottenham Arsenal didn’t want to play
- 6 April 1959: First Arsenal game for Mel Charles, (in Southern Floodlight Challenge Cup)
- 5 April 1929 – The Day Herbert Chapman Resigned From Arsenal
- 100 years ago today: Highbury Defence Committee and Islington Council vote against Arsenal moving to Highbury
- Who changed the club’s name to “Arsenal”? (And who invented “The Gunners”?)
The books…
- Woolwich Arsenal: The club that changed football – Arsenal’s early years
- Making the Arsenal – how the modern Arsenal was born in 1910
- The Crowd at Woolwich Arsenal – crowd behaviour at the early matches
Other sites from the same team…
- Untold Arsenal
- Referee Decisions – just what are the refs up to this season?
