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—————————————– “Making the Arsenal” – the book of Arsenal’s rebirth —————————————– By Tony Attwood 1958/9 was the last season that Arsenal made it into the top four until Bertie Mee achieved this in 1968/9. Not only was Arsenal outside the elite challenging clubs, we also failed to win either the FA Cup or League Cup …
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—————————————– “Making the Arsenal” – the book of Arsenal’s rebirth —————————————– Arsenal.com have today picked up Walter’s “Jenkinson” article in their Media Watch section. Congratulations all round to Walter from everyone at Untold Towers By Tony Attwood In October 1956 Tom Whittaker, the club’s manager, died of a heart attack. He had won the league …
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Arsenal History and Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal ———————————- The Christmas gift for the fan with (almost) everything By Tony Attwood Today it is seen as an undeniable truth that the barest minimum for Arsenal to achieve each year is 4th position in the Premier League. No matter that other teams have far more money …
By Tony Attwood Amusing piece turned up on the Fifa web site about the term ‘gol olímpico’ (Olympic Goal), which they says is used to describe a goal scored directly from a corner. The site then claims to have a “look back at the history of the corner-kick goal and some of the players who have …
“Making the Arsenal” – the book of Arsenal’s decline and rebirth Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal —————————————– Sign the petition to make sure YOU are not helping fund Tottenham’s new stadium By Tony Attwood This is the last article in the series about players who played in the first game at Highbury in the first …
Read More “Alf Baker: from the first 1st division match at Highbury to our first Cup Final”
By Tony Attwood An England cap won by Alf Common is being auctioned tomorrow. Apparently it will get over £1000 – the amount Alf cost Middlesbrough. Alf Common was a Middlesbrough player when he won the red England cap. MIDDLESBROUGH FC caused a sensation when it became the first football club to pay £1,000 for …
—————————————– “Making the Arsenal” – the book of Arsenal’s decline and rebirth Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal —————————————– by Tony Attwood Continuing our series of post 1919 players, Harry White as he is known on the Arsenal database, or Henry Albert “Bert” White as other sources have it, played for Arsenal between 1919 and 1923 …
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“Making the Arsenal” – the book of Arsenal’s decline and rebirth Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Tony Attwood This series of articles focusses on the team that started the first post war season for Arsenal in 1919. Inevitably however some of these players have already been the subject of articles on this site – …
—————————————– The Christmas gift for the fan with (almost) everything Untold Arsenal and Arsenal History on Twitter @UntoldArsenal —————————————– By Tony Attwood Clement Ross Voysey (known as Clem) was born in New Cross on 27 December 1899 and died in 1989. He played for Royal Naval Air Service and made one war time appearance for …
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By Tony Attwood John Alexander “Alex” Graham (11 July 1890 – April 1943) was another of Arsenal’s Scottish players, who was with the club as football resumed after the first world war. He was born in Ayrshire and played for clubs in Lanarkshire, including Hurlford (but not the present Hurlford United, which is in the …
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———————————- The Christmas gift for the fan with (almost) everything ———————————- By Tony Attwood Continuing the review of Arsenal’s team as it took up its duties in the first division at the start of the 1919/20 season. Frank Bradshaw joined Arsenal in 1914 and played 29 league games and scored ten goals as a number …
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Preliminary Note: This article was published here during a period when the Untold Arsenal site was down. It is indexed on the Untold site in the normal way. —————- Arsenal v Stoke, the ref review. By Ref Reviewer 04 For the game between Arsenal and Stoke we had ref Mason in the Emirates. Because of …
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This article was published here during a period when the Untold Arsenal site was down. It is indexed on the Untold site in the normal way. By Tony Attwood Of course it would have to happen on a weekend when there was so much to chat about. I can’t remember if we have won five …
Untold Arsenal (www.blog.emiratesstadium.info) went down on Friday afternoon, and is still down. All the sites operated by my company (over 120 of them) were affected, and we are continuing an investigation into why. Other sites, apart from Untold, are now back on line, hence this notice appearing. But for the moment Untold appears to have …
By Tony Attwood On August 30 1919, under the guidance of Leslie Knighton, Arsenal (not Woolwich Arsenal, not The Arsenal, but Arsenal) played their first match of the new era. The war had been over for almost a year, football had been restructured, after all the rows and arguments about match fixing and expansion of …
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—————————————————————————— The Christmas gift for the fan with (almost) everything —————————————————————————— This is part five of the series “Arsenal, the search for the first year”. There is a link to the earlier postings on this topic at the end of the article. By Mark Andrews, Andy Kelly and Tony Attwood If you have been reading …
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With over 2000 followers: Arsenal History and Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal —————————————– By Andy Kelly, Mark Andrews and Tony Attwood This is part four of the series of articles concerning the very origins of Arsenal FC. Part 1: Arsenal the First Year Part 2: The Confusion Deepens Part 3: The Earliest Evidence of Arsenal’s …
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With over 2000 followers: Arsenal History Society on Twitter @UntoldArsenal This is the third in a series of articles examining all the evidence that exists concerning the first year in the history of Arsenal. You can read the earlier sections here: Part One Part Two Found: the first ever historic review of Arsenal’s foundations By …
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This article continues our debate on the foundations of Arsenal FC. To read part one of this review click here What actually happened in the first year of Arsenal FC is unclear – not least because many different sources have told different stories. Indeed even the official Arsenal story as retold over the past century …
By Andy Kelly, Mark Andrews and Tony Attwood It’s in every history book on Arsenal, and in every official Arsenal publication. The club, we are told, has had five names – Dial Square, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich Arsenal, The Arsenal, and Arsenal. It is at the start, matters are a little more murky. We played almost …
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Read any Arsenal history book or even a summary of Arsenal’s history and you get much the same story. Our original name was Dial Square FC, and our first match was (for reasons not explained in any text before we came along) not at Woolwich (where the club was formed) but several hours journey away …
By Andy Kelly and Tony Attwood Arsenal’s recently published year end accounts have this little statement within it… “David Danskin had an ambition to build a community of people with a kindred spirit and aim, namely playing football, having fun and being together. December 1st 1886 was the date.” You cannot imagine how this has …
By Tony Attwood There is a new book that three of us are working on called WOOLWICH ARSENAL: THE CLUB THAT CHANGED HISTORY. That title is being seen as very pompous and overstated, and yet I believe there is validity in it for a whole range of reasons. Here’s one of them… Arsenal was just …
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By Tony Attwood November 6th, 1909. The world looks bleak. Arsenal are bottom of the league division I, having never been relegated in their history. Their record so far is is played 11, drawn 1, won 2, lost 8. There was light on the horizon at the start of the day, as after a terrible …
First references to Woolwich Arsenal FC as the Gunners. by Mark Andrews Mark is one of the three authors working with Tony Attwood and Andy Kelly on the forthcoming book “Woolwich Arsenal: the club that changed football“. The book is planned for publication early next year and more details will be announced here soon. We …
Read More “Who invented the nickname “The Gunners”, and when was it first used?”
