AISA Arsenal History Society: preserving Arsenal's heritage
Imagine a player who played 137 league games across six seasons, who scored 10 goals for the club, and yet about whom we know practically nothing. Indeed a player whose Wiki entry actually removes the credit for not just one but all of his goals and whose Arsenal.com entry records a different number of …
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John Anthony Devine was born in Dublin on 11 November 1958 and played for Arsenal from 1974 to 1983 at a time when the number of Irishmen associated with Arsenal was particularly high and included Liam Brady, David O’Leary and Frank Stapleton. He became a professional at Arsenal in 1976 playing right back, and played …
By Tony Attwood This is another article that would normally appear on Untold but can’t for technical reasons. Being the Easter weekend I am not sure how long it will take to do anything about Untold’s latest problems, but do keep an eye on these pages… I never quite understood the “I want my …
Untold Arsenal is down at the moment, so we are publishing the scheduled articles here in the meanwhile. Announcements will be made on the Untold Arsenal Twitter account. By Walter Broeckx Usually during matches I try to stay away from the internet. Of course not when I am looking at a match on a …
Read More “Instant judgement is not the best way to view football: we need perspective”
Untold Arsenal is down once again, following another attack, so here’s the story I was going to run this morning… The latest gossip is that PSG and Monaco are trying to sign Laurent Koscielny and Arsenal are “desperate” to keep him and want to give him a new contract at double the salary. And …
Bob Wilson, one of the great heroes of Arsenal, has announced that he is suffering from prostate cancer and we all wish him the very, very speedy recovery. There is of course a feature on this site concerning Bob who served the club as goal keeper and the coach to the goalkeepers at Arsenal. …
Sorry that Untold Arsenal is once again down – as at 11,00 BST on 14 April. We do know about it, and have got people working on it. The problem has been identified, but it seems to be a bit of a bugger to sort. Sorry everyone – I want it back as much as …
By Tony Attwood Gordon Nutt was born in Birmingham 8 November 1932 and died in Tasmania on 25 February 2014. Aside from Arsenal he played for, Sheldon (???), Coventry City, Royal Artillery National Service British Army XI (obviously during his National Service, where he played alongside Tommy Taylor), Cardiff City, Southend Utd, and PSV Eindhoven, …
Read More “Gordon Nutt: arrived in 1955 with Arsenal facing relegation”
You wouldn’t know it from commentaries in the papers of the day but on 12 April 2014 Arsenal equalled another record – the most semi-final appearances in the FA Cup and the most won. In fact as the chart below shows, Arsenal’s record on that date is exactly the same as Man U. The nearest …
By Tony Atttwood Believe me, I’m as upset as anyone about the number of technical issues Untold has. I think maybe I’m going to start a second site as a backup for when Untold is down.And Sunday is the worst time to discover there is a problem, of course, from a technical point of view.All …
By Tony Attwood Arsenal History Society. Harry Storer was born on 24 July 1870 and died aged just 37 on 25 April 1908. He was an Arsenal keeper who has two very particular places in Arsenal’s early history, and yet is not represented (beyond his name and playing record) on Arsenal.com, which is a shame. …
Read More “Harry Storer: the Arsenal player who took on the AAA, and lost.”
April and May 1980 didn’t seem like the end of an era. Far from it in fact with Arsenal grinding their way to another FA Cup final, fighting in the Cup Winners’ Cup and also looking for a place in Europe next season. But in essence, it was. Terry Neill had three more seasons to …
Read More “April/May 1980: an era starts to move to a close”
By Tony Attwood Sometimes when we find players who are a total mystery – whose lives are totally lost to us beyond the fact that they played a few games for Arsenal – I’m puzzled by the blank, but can leave it at that. But when we find a player who is a league winner …
Read More “Arthur Shaw, the Arsenal league winner who vanished from history”
Untold Arsenal, the companion of the Arsenal History Site which appears here, is out of action for a while, as we move servers. We expect to be back up quite shortly. Sorry about this, but it is going to help us a lot in the long run. Tony
7 January 1978 Sheffield United 0 Arsenal 5 FA Cup 3rd round Attendance: 32,156 The build up to the game was all about how Arsenal would not be allowed to settle into their rhythm thus allowing the local lads to cause an upset. Arsenal responded by spending the first 18 minutes doing exactly what they …
1966/67 – the early days of Mee Billy Wright’s tenure at Arsenal had ended in disaster with home crowds collapsing… 12 March 1966: Arsenal 0 Everton 1 (24,821) 26 March 1966: Arsenal 1 Newcastle 3 (13979) 5 April 1966: Arsenal 1 WBA 1 (8738) 23 April 1966: Arsenal 1 Sunderland 1 (25,699) 5 May 1966: …
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Tommy Baldwin was born on 10 June 1945 in Gateshead. He is, with George Graham, one of only two players to have played for three of the top four clubs of recent years. Although he made his name at Chelsea, he has often spoken of his time of Arsenal and his admiration of Arsenal and …
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By Tony Attwood The London Charity Cup was a London FA County Cup. The original trophy was donated by the Rt. Hon. Reginald Harrison. Over the years a number of London’s larger clubs have entered the competition, including Charlton, Chelsea, Crystal Palace, Fulham, Leyton Orient, Millwall, QPR, Tottenham H, WHU, Wimbledon, and of course Arsenal. …
Each day of the year, except when I’m away, the Arsenal History Society publishes the Arsenal anniversaries for that day. . But actually we do more than that, because each day we add about another ten anniversaries to the file – and now have over 3000 of them recorded. . Today we include famous names …
By Tony Attwood There are some days in the history of Arsenal that just ring out with historic importance – and 30 March is most certainly one of those. For 30 March was the day that saw the club play for the very first time at the Manor Field, which became the Manor Ground – …
Read More “The early Arsenal. From zero to 10,000 in five years.”
By Tony Attwood As I mentioned the other day, with over 1000 articles now on this site, we’re getting into the lives of some players who seem to have little said about them in the history books (or indeed in this case on Arsenal.com) And so we turn to James Gibb Fotheringham (known as Jim) …
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March 25 1972: Leeds United 3 Arsenal 0 Football League Division 1: Attendance: 45,055 Through March and April one year before Arsenal had gone through a winning run of nine games. This had set them up so that even the controversial defeat by Leeds on April 26 1971 had not stopped the club winning the …
By Tony Attwood I am fairly used to struggling in finding out the details of some of the lesser known players in the pre-Chapman era, but generally once we get to the latter part of the 1920s things become clear. So it is a surprise that John Vance Milne known as “Jackie” and perhaps sometimes …
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Arsenal and the London Combination Victory Cup – an untold tale by Tony Attwood After the end of the 1914/15 season the Football League and the Southern League in England were suspended (although league football continued in Scotland) until the end of the war with Germany. On 11 November 1918 the ceasefire that ended the …
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Alexander Main (known as “Sandy”) was born in West Calder in Scotland in 1873 although I can find no record of the actual date. His playing career at the first took him across four clubs in one season, but at some stage in his second season he moved south and joined Woolwich Arsenal. Here’s the …
