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Emmanuel Laurent “Manu” Petit was born 22 September 1970 and was one of the early classic signings by Arsène Wenger, who brought Petit from his earlier French club, Monaco. Petit was born in Dieppe and was signed by Arsène Wenger at the age of 18 and soon became a regular player in the midfield. By …
It is strange that a man who played 176 games for Arsenal and got an FA Cup winners medal for the win against Manchester United in which Alan Sunderland scored in the last minute, is somehow not quite remembered. I’ve been working on the forthcoming book “Arsenal in the 70s” these past few months, and …
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Robert Hamilton “Bob” Turnbull was born on the 1st anniversary of the foundation of Woolwich Arsenal (well, the anniversary of their first ever AGM) on 22 June 1893. He had a military training with the Royal Corps of Signals, and played initially for the Royal Engineers AFC – a club with a most illustrious history, …
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Alan Hudson was born 21 June 1951 and played for Arsenal for two seasons. Although he left us after arguments with the management he did bring an extra flair and solidity, if not stability, to a side that was starting to exert its presence once more thanks to the extraordinary development of Liam Brady. He …
Two of Arsenal’s most remarkable goal scorers Arsenal’s record during the 1930s was something to behold: League Champions five times, Runners Up once, Cup Winners once, losing finalists once. The question was asked more than once, could anything stop Arsenal? The answer of course was yes, but it wasn’t a football club. It was the …
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By Tony Attwood At 10pm on Saturday 22nd June the commercial radio station Talk Sport are doing a programme about the history of football. I don’t have much in the way of details about the programme but I do know a little because in preparation for the programme Talk Sport came and interviewed me about …
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Edward John Paul McGoldrick known as Eddie was born in Islington 30 April 1965 (although he played for the Republic of Ireland) and is one of the continuing line of people from Herbert Chapman onwards who has been involved with clubs in Northamptonshire and with Arsenal (you will recall Chapman’s first managerial post was with …
Ray Daniel war born in Swansea on 2 November 1928and died 6 November 1997. He started at his local club Swansea Town and in 1946, as clubs started to get themselves together for the first post-war championship he was signed by Arsenal. He elder brother had also played for Arsenal and died in the …
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Lee Harper was perhaps the most curious signing of George Graham – or maybe George Graham saw something in the goal keeper that no one else could see. Here is his Arsenal career in brief: He was signed by Graham in June 1994and cost the club £150,000 – apparently one of the biggest fees paid …
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Jovan “John” Lukic was born on 11 December 1960 who played for two spells with Leeds and two spells with Arsenal playing 668 league games in total, across four decades. He was also an England under 21 and England B international. He played first for Leeds as a schoolboy and then started with the first …
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This article is based on the more detailed approach provided in “Woolwich Arsenal: the club that changed football” Everyone who was involved in professional football in 1910 knew one thing: Woolwich Arsenal FC were in severe financial trouble. The white knight who had so often ridden in and save them in the past, George Leavey, …
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Ian Buchanan McPherson was born 26 July 1920 and died in St Albans in March 1983). He is one of those Arsenal players who tends to be forgotten despite his vital contribution to one of the club’s league winning sides. Indeed he does not even warrant any text on Arsenal.com. He started with Rangers but …
11 June is the day Herbert Chapman signed for Arsenal and became the manager that started our road to glory. As you might expect, the Arsenal History Society site has a mass of articles about the great man – and we ourselves have done a little somethng to help commemorate Mr Chapman, for it was …
By Tony Attwood Alexander “Alex” Manninger was born 4 June 1977 and has one of the most extraordinary histories in modern football I have ever seen. So odd is his story that I have no idea which bits are right, not least because I am having trouble with Alex’ basic appearance figures for Arsenal as …
Robert Hewitt “Bobby” Gould was born 12 June 1946 and started his football career with Coventry City – his home town, playing for them at the age of 16. He offered great potential by scoring 40 goals in 82 games, and helping with the winning the second division in 1966/7. On the basis of such …
The heart of our work at the moment is to expand the Anniversary section of the site – although we are also interested in continuing to develop the Arsenal Managers section. Arsenal manager by manager. Arsenal’s anniversaries. If you know of an anniversary that we have missed or which we have not yet written up, …
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Norman William Sidey was born 31 May 1907 joined Arsenal as an amateur from Nunhead (in the Isthmian League) in March 1929 before turning professional two years later in February 1931. He was a midfield player and made his début in playing at number 4 on December 27 1932 in a 0-0 draw with Leeds. …
Alexander Rooney Forbes (known as Red) was born 21 January 1925 in Dundee. He initially played for Dundee North End, and then after the war ended moved to Sheffield United. He played his first game for Scotland, against England,on 12 April 1947. However he had appendicitis and did not seem to make a full recovery initially …
Martin Hayes was born 21 March 1966 in Walthamstow Having played schoolboy football he joined Arsenal as an apprentice in 1982 and played centre forward and left wing. His first game in the first team was against Oxford United on16 November 1985 aged 19. It may be a reason for what happened latter, for Martin …
By Tony Attwood John James Rimmer known as Jimmy, was born in Southport on 10 February 1948. He joined Manchester United on schoolboy forms in 1963 and became a professional for the club in 1965. He stayed at Manchester United for nine seasons as second keeper to Alex Stepney, appearing 34 times in the league …
27 May anniversaries 27 May 1933: Alex Wilson purchased from Greenock Morton 27 May 1948: Doug Lishman signed from Walsall for £10,500 27 May 1953: Final game for Freddie Cox DFC 27 May 1973: Final game for Peter Marinello 27 May 1998: Ian Wright and Martin Keown play for England 27 May 1998: Remi Garde …
By Tony Attwood, Andy Kelly and Mark Andrews 26 May 1913 is a most important date in our “ISLINGTON 100” series – the series that tells of Arsenal’s move to north London – which will culminate with the 100th anniversary of the first match at Highbury in September 2013. An important date since it was …
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Joe Wade was born 7 July 1921 in Shoreditch and joined Arsenal as an amateur in 1944 – while Britain was still at war. He was in the RAF at the time and based near Hereford, and also played for them during the war years. He is also listed as playing for Hoxton. He played …
Ernest Williamson (generally known as Tim) was born 24 May 1890 in County Durham Durham. Tim Williamson began his career at local sides such as Murton Red Star, and Wingate Albion before joining Croydon Common of the Southern League in 1913. During the first world war he was in the Royal Army Service Corps and …
By Tony Attwood (written 23 May 2013) Tomáš Rosický will be 33 within three months of the start of the 2013/14 season – and as the story goes Mr Wenger does not retain players over 30 years of age. Except of course he does, on occasion, and watching Arsenal in the 2012/13 season with Rosický …
