AISA Arsenal History Society: preserving Arsenal's heritage
By Tony Attwood In association with some colleagues and friends I am looking to gather together all the resources I can find about Arsenal in the 1970s. It would include things like A year by year analysis with brief report on each match, programme covers, league tables, player profiles, lots of photos of matches, newspaper …
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By Tony Attwood In writing the Arsenal Uncovered notes for the club programme this season, I find I am getting myself into areas where I think I know the answer, and then don’t. If you can help, I’d be grateful. Arsenal’s first foreign player. Of course there’s an issue of definition here, but taking it …
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by Tony Attwood I am working with two great friends of this site (Andy Kelly and Mark Andrews) to produce the book WOOLWICH ARSENAL: THE CLUB THAT CHANGED FOOTBALL. Following discussions with Arsenal FC there is a chance that they will take the book and sell it through their shops and on line – it …
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Just on two years ago AISA, the Arsenal Independent Supporters Association, voted to set up a division of the association with the view to exploring and promoting an awareness of Arsenal’s history. In those two years amazing things have happened. This web site has grown and grown, and through it we have found out more …
By Tony Attwood There are players you can’t recall at all, players you half remember, players you rather like, and legends. Jack Kelsey is in the final group. He played for Arsenal’s first team from 1950 until 1962, winning just one medal – the league in 1953. And yet he is a name that anyone …
Read More “Star players don’t come to Arsenal, because Arsenal are straight.”
by Tony Attwood This season the official Arsenal programme will include a column called “Arsenal Uncovered”. Now as you may know, I edit a blog called Untold Arsenal, as well as this history blog, and the fact that “Uncovered” is going to include quite a few history incidents, and that prefix “Un” appears in both …
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By Tony Attwood Recently I published a couple of pieces about two prospective future managers of Arsenal: Remi Garde and Dennis Bergkamp. The reason for these stories was not the fact that these ex-players had declared their interest in the job, but rather because both were highly regarded by Arsene Wenger, as players, and both …
Read More “Tony Adams declares he would love to manage Arsenal”
By Tony Attwood If you occasionally drop into this blog you’ll know that I am writing a year by year review of Arsene Wenger. The last article dealt with the 2003 Cup Final and the start of the “49” unbeaten run. I was just getting my notes together for the start of the rather important …
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Arsenal History and Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal by Tony Attwood In the last two articles in this series we have looked at the league campaign in 2002/3 – the frustration of being top of the league by five points and then slipping away, the awful defeat against Leeds, the wonder goal of Henry against …
Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Tony Attwood We finished 2002 with two wins and two draws, and continued this short unbeaten run in the league until 15 March when we lost away 2-0 to Blackburn. The run itself, totalling 11 games, had given some hope, and we put together another short run after that …
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By Tony Attwood After numerous delays and after months of being side-tracked by other issues I am finally finding the time to complete the book on Woolwich Arsenal. The book is called WOOLWICH ARSENAL: THE CLUB THAT CHANGED FOOTBALL, we have a publisher, and I am hopeful it will be published at the end of …
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By Tony Attwood Patrick Vieira has retired from playing football and has become the latest ex-Arsenal player to join the managerial and coaching level of football. He has been given a newly-created role at Manchester C. of football development executive. It seems to be a job to do with the development of young players, working …
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A review of 2002/3 – part 1 By Tony Attwood In the summer of 2002 Arsene Wenger did a remarkable piece of business. He bought Gilberto Silva, soon to be captain of Brazil, for £2m. The only other purchase was Cygan from Lille. Tony Adams retired. Gilberto Silva played in an extremely violent Community Shield …
Read More “After the second double: few signings but a wonderful team”
By Tony Attwood Over the last few weeks we’ve been gathering the names of ex-Arsenal players who are now either in management or in journalism. Thanks to everyone who has joined in. It is possible that some names are still missing from the lists, but hopefully this is near a complete list in each case …
Read More “Which ex-Arsenal players in journalism are pro Wenger?”
My call for a list of ex Arsenal players who are now journalists, on Untold Arsenal, didn’t bring in much luck. It seems as if I might have to read the wretched press myself to catch up with them. I’m limiting this list somewhat as so many players are used very occasionally as pundits… what …
Continuing the series on players who left Arsenal and what happened next Emmanuel Petit Manu’s main career in terms of length and number of appearances was at Monaco (222 games), and he played with Arsenal for three years (85 games), followed by Barcelona (23) and Chelsea (55). He cost £2.5m and left …
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By Tony Attwood Many of our top players leave Arsenal towards the end of their careers. Some however leave earlier – a thought brought about by events this summer. But what happens to such players? I started to wonder this, in reaction to the talk of players leaving in the summer of 2011, and the …
By Tony Attwood In the last article I listed a number of Arsenal players now in senior management position in clubs other than Arsenal. Dennis Bergkamp Remi Garde Tony Adams Martin Hayes Brian McDermott Vladimir Petrovic Now here is the second list, which hopefully gets us to near completion.., the total seems to be eleven …
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by Tony Attwood I recently asked on Untold Arsenal for details of any ex-Arsenal players currently working as managers or in other very senior positions in clubs. This came about following the news of Dennis Bergkamp‘s appointment at Ajax and Remi Garde‘s elevation at Lyon. The subsequent discussion gave me quite a few names, but …
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by Tony Attwood With Remi Garde in charge at Lyon we also now have Dennis Bergkamp as assistant manager at Ajax. I want to write a little about Dennis, but before I do I would like to consider who else from the Arsenal ranks is currently in senior management. I must admit my mind has …
Read More “Dennis Bergkamp: how the abuse of the moron fans nearly destroyed the greatest player”
Arsenal in the Cups 2001/2 By Tony Attwood After all the furore about the reserves played in the league cup last season Mr Wenger put out a more experienced side for the first league cup game of 2001/2. It was against Man U, just at the moment when both teams had suffered defeats in the …
by Tony Attwood I have mentioned already that the start of the 21st century saw the start of serious doubts about referees where bizarre decisions started to cost us games – not least in the cup final of last season against Liverpool. 2001 continued the theme and again we looked at Liverpool as the team …
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by Tony Attwood In the last article I wrote about the foundations of the anti-Arsenal Arsenal – a grouping of “supporters” who felt that Arsène Wenger should be removed from the managership of the club. The main complaint of the AAA at this stage was that the latest crop of signings were poor (Stepanovs was …
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Continuing the review of Arsène Wenger’s time at Arsenal. This is the third part of the consideration of 2000/1 by Tony Attwood One of the great things about this series on Arsène Wenger and his time at the club is that each article draws out the correspondents who while pushing the old line that the …
Untold Arsenal on Twitter is in the top 1% of all Twitter sites for followers @UntoldArsenal Untold Arsenal on Facebook here By Tony Attwood From the moment they signed, I had the feeling that Gilles Grimandi and Rémi Garde were not just signed as players by Mr Wenger, but as future employees of the club. …
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