Tony Attwood – Page 82 – The History of Arsenal

Having said no for years and years the League finally said numbered shirts were ok

Posted on 5 July 20185 July 2018 by Tony Attwood

The Arsenal Anniversary Files Below are the Arsenal (and occasionally one or two non-Arsenal) anniversaries for today taken from the complete files of over 6000 Arsenal anniversaries which appear on the Arsenal History Society website. An index to the Anniversary files can be found in the left column of this site under “Pages” The current …

The man who was leaving Arsenal daily for two solid years, but never did.

Posted on 4 July 20184 July 2018 by Tony Attwood

18 years ago today one of our greatest ever players signed for just £6m

Posted on 3 July 2018 by Tony Attwood

Arsenal propose the salary cap

Posted on 2 July 2018 by Tony Attwood

Farewell Dixon, Adams, Flamini, Sanogo, McCullough, Anderson, Richardson

Posted on 1 July 2018 by Tony Attwood

Arsenal Anniversaries: The day when young hopefuls are released into the wild

Posted on 30 June 2018 by Tony Attwood

Cech makes Mourinho unhappy: Arsenal anniversaries, 29 June

Posted on 29 June 2018 by Tony Attwood

Very early example of a reserve team programme

Posted on 20 June 201820 June 2018 by Tony Attwood

By Tony Attwood Paul Matz of the AISA Arsenal History Society has one of the most extensive and extraordinary collections of Arsenal memorabilia including of course a wide range of programmes. And yesterday I was privileged to see what might well be the oldest Arsenal reserve programme in existence – for a match on April …

Anticipation a plenty but another terrible start to the season: August 1923

Posted on 11 June 2018 by Tony Attwood

By Tony Attwood Arsenal’s first league match of the 1923/4 season was to be played on 25 August and there were two pre-season friendlies (I suspect the Reds against the Blues or First Team against the Reserves, as normal) on the two Saturdays prior to the kick off. And so, probably in common with …

When Henry Norris became the first chairman of Fulham FC.

Posted on 6 June 2018 by Tony Attwood

The Anniversary Files Here are the Arsenal (and occasionally one or two non-Arsenal) anniversaries for today taken from the complete files of over 6000 Arsenal anniversaries which appear on the Arsenal History Society website. An index to the Anniversary files can be found in the left column of this site under “Pages” The current historical …

Farewell our Russian genius who never quite clicked

Posted on 5 June 20184 June 2018 by Tony Attwood

Arsenal in the Summer 1923: another Knighton allegation but the evidence is against him.

Posted on 4 June 20184 June 2018 by Tony Attwood

By Tony Attwood As with other Arsenal in the summer articles, rather than stick to the exact chronology of events I am going to work through a few themes and stories, which will bend the chronology slightly. And to begin this Arsenal in the summer meander I’ll consider the tale of Jock Rutherford’s summer. By …

The Arsenal man who single handedly raised 3 brigades in the 1st world war.

Posted on 4 June 2018 by Tony Attwood

Goalkeepers’ Day. Manninger arrives, Seaman and Lehmann depart. The Arsenal anniversaries

Posted on 3 June 2018 by Tony Attwood

When penalties were invented, Arsenal were fined and Cole was fined.

Posted on 2 June 2018 by Tony Attwood

The first Arsenal player to captain Brazil

Posted on 1 June 2018 by Tony Attwood

One of Arsenal’s great managers retires, and his autobiography is completely disbelieved.

Posted on 31 May 2018 by Tony Attwood

The day Arsenal were within five minutes of going out of business.

Posted on 18 May 2018 by Tony Attwood

These are the Arsenal anniversaries that we have found for this day. A full list of all the anniversaries for the year appear in the month by month listings on this site. See the index in the left column or on our home page. Today’s headline story comes from 1910. 18 May 1899: James Tennant joined …

Arsenal concede their lowest number of goals in one season ever

Posted on 16 May 2018 by Tony Attwood

When Tottenham needed just one more point but blew it all away

Posted on 15 May 2018 by Tony Attwood

When Arsenal’s top scorer for the season scored11, and everyone seemed quite happy.

Posted on 13 May 201813 May 2018 by Tony Attwood

The latest post from our series on Henry Norris at the Arsenal Arsenal Sept 1922: the first Hill-Wood arrives, Spurs seriously warned, Arsenal debts reduced The next article in this series will appear today. Here are the anniversaries of today. Our headline comes from 1967. If you have been following this series for some time …

When none of the Youth Cup winning team went on to play for the first XI.

Posted on 12 May 2018 by Tony Attwood

The latest post from our series on Henry Norris at the Arsenal Arsenal Sept 1922: the first Hill-Wood arrives, Spurs seriously warned, Arsenal debts reduced Here are the anniversaries of today. If you have been following this series for some time you’ll know that often we have 20 or 30 anniversaries on a particular day …

The day the modern Arsenal was formed. 78 years later to the day we won at WHL

Posted on 3 May 20183 May 2018 by Tony Attwood

The latest post from our series on Henry Norris at the Arsenal Norris breaks free, transfer fees spiral, terrorism returns, fixtures look awful. Arsenal – Summer of 1922. Here are the anniversaries for today. Apologies for publishing yesterday’s again earlier! 3 May 1893: George Lawrence signed the documents to turn Royal Arsenal formally …

1922: Arsenal’s end of the season tour and summary of games

Posted on 28 April 2018 by Tony Attwood

by Tony Attwood On 6 May 1922, after a dismal season which included 5 consecutive defeats Arsenal rounded the league off with four wins and a draw in the last five to finish with Arsenal 1 Bradford C 0 and 17th place in the league. Here is the final table… Pos Team Pld W D …

When Tottenham had won four trophies and Arsenal had won none at all.

Posted on 23 April 201823 April 2018 by Tony Attwood

Below are the anniversaries of Arsenal for 23 April The full index to what is on this site is here. The latest article on Henry Norris at the Arsenal is… April 1922: Arsenal and Man U fight against relegation. Only one survives. The current series: Covering all aspects off the life and work of …