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Today’s anniversaries 10 July 1916: The Princess Royal, colonel-in-chief of the 7th Dragoon Guards (the Princess Royal’s Own), opened a new building in the grounds of Fulham’s board of guardians’ infirmary. The building was to be used by the military for the duration of the war, and Captain Henry Norris, Arsenal chairman, was part …
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Today on Untold Arsenal Why everyone criticises Arsenal’s youth policy – and why they are all wrong The Man City v Premier League case is very different from normal business disputes. Here’s how. Today’s anniversaries 9 July 1856: Nikola Tesla, the man who invented alternating current electricity supply system, was born 9 …
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Today on Untold Arsenal: The Man City v Premier League case is very different from normal business disputes. Here’s how. Pre-season training begins in one week’s time – although some are already back The Anniversaries Today’s headline comes from 1997. 8 July 1970: David Court sold to Luton Town having missed out on …
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Here are the anniversaries 7 July 1917: Islington’s Baby Week concluded. These “Weeks” were held across the country to encourage mothers to work harder to protect the health of their children despite the hardships of wartime, amidst a growing concern about the rise in infant mortality in the capital from malnutrition and the continuing …
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6 July 1916: During the 1st world war Arsenal’s chair, Henry Norris, undertook work for the War Office. The records of this work were later destroyed so piecing together his work is difficult but we know he worked in Worthing for the WO sorting out recruitment before this date, but was back in London …
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Today’s headline comes from 1939. 5 July 1910: Harry Logan signed for Arsenal from Sunderland, having previously played for Shettleston, in the East End of Glasgow. His first match was on 3 September against Bury (although some sources quote a later date), in a 1-1 draw, playing initially at inside left, and later in the …
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2 July 1970: Steve Morrow born. He joined Arsenal just after his 17th birthday in July 1987 and went out on loan to Reading, Watford and Barnet, playing his first Arsenal game proper on 8 April 1992. In 2008 he returned to Arsenal as International Partnerships’ Performance Supervisor, managing Arsenal’s international partnerships, including Colorado Rapids of Major …
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Arsenal anniversaries for 1 July 1 July 1916: Arsenal’s annual report was published showing Henry Norris as being owed £7196 by the club, while the builders of the main stand were owed £18087 (about £2.5m today) – this sum guaranteed by Henry Norris personally. It also showed that the club had bought some …
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30 June 1884: Tower Bridge was opened. It was the furthest easterly bridge over the Thames until the opening of the Queen Elizabeth II bridge at Dartford. 30 June 1905: The Kentish Independent published a list of season ticket prices at Woolwich Arsenal – showing a price of £2 2s – about two-thirds …
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Arsenal anniversaries for 2 June 28 June 1913: Arsenal gained possession of the Gillespie Road site for the first time thus leaving them just 10 weeks before the first match of the season to make the ground ready. There is no record of the club making any arrangements to have matches played elsewhere in the …
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27 June 1908: James Bigden sold to Bury after making 75 appearances in the league and 12 in the Cup for Woolwich Arsenal across four seasons. 27 June 1910: Athletic News carried an article saying Woolwich Arsenal did not yet have a full squad of players, and although this was not a total disaster (since …
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Here are today’s anniversaries…. 24 June 1905: Arsenal’s AGM reported the annual income from the rent of the bars in the Manor Ground as £110 5s 0d. (£110.25 – about £13,000 today) 24 June 1949: Bryn Jones transferred to Norwich as player coach. He remained there for just two years before returning to north London …
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The anniversaries for today 23 June 1914: The RAF was established. 23 June 1953: Alf Haynes died. He played 29 games as a centre half under Herbert Chapman. Later he ran a newsagents in Oxford and wrote a sports column for the local newspaper and kept his connections with Arsenal under Tom Whittaker, acting as a scout. …
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The anniversaries for 22 June. Today’s headline comes from 1925, 22 June 1893: The first AGM of Woolwich Arsenal was held under the chairmanship of Jack Humble; as the club’s first directors were elected ahead of entry into the Football League for the first time. Humble later took a break as an Arsenal director but …
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By Tony Attwood We have now got Untold Arsenal back online. The layout is not perfect as yet but the site is back and functioning, so this site can return to its function of covering Arsenal’s history on this day. 21 June 1919: Admiral Ludwig von Reuter, fearful that the German fleet might …
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Also today: one of the most eccentric interviews with a football manager ever – see 1921 Apologies if you are also a reader of Untold Arsenal: our upgrade has caused us more problems that we would have liked, but we are back in operation. You can reach us directly at www.untold-arsenal.co.uk at the moment, …
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90 Years Ago Today – today’s headline is from 16 June 1934 16 June 1917: With newspapers forbidden from writing anything about the war other than (often invented) victories on the battlefield, the local newspaper in Fulham started a long running series of attacks on the Borough’s mayor, Henry Norris following the flooding of local …
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We have written about Reg Tricker in the past on this site – a link to the article is below, but in essence we know he came from India, was signed by Chapman and eventually moved on to Margate. We also know that Arsenal had strong links with Margate and used them as a …
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Today’s Arsenal’s anniversaries are below – the headline comes from 1995. There are more details of our articles on the home page and at the bottom of this page. 15 June 1899: George Leavey was elected chair of Woolwich Arsenal. Through his extensive chain of gentleman’s outfitters including one in Plumstead he became to be a …
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