AISA Arsenal History Society: preserving Arsenal's heritage
By Tony Attwood Following the Cup Final I’ve updated the comparative table of Arsenal managers. Once again we find that Arsene Wenger’s win percentage has increased, and of course the honours table is up by one. I thought it might be interesting to do one other column showing the number of games per honour. Our …
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By Tony Attwood Although this site has by no means covered every Arsenal player with an illustrious record, we are getting to the stage where we are starting to look at players for whom virtually no information is available at all. One such is James Tennant – who played outside left for Woolwich Arsenal in …
Read More “James Tennant: the ex-Arsenal man who signed for East Stirlingshire by mistake”
By Tony Attwood 16 May sees a variety of Arsenal anniversaries. The 1910 tale of financial disaster continues with Arsenal desperately trying to sell shares in itself to anyone who would come along and buy them. Rangers (the Glasgow club, not QPR!) did in fact take up the offer, and kept their shares until a …
Read More “From not being thrown out of the FA to doing the Double.”
By Tony Attwood I don’t know when I first went to see Arsenal – but I seem to think it was in 1956 for a reserve match against West Ham. My dad – himself an avid fan who had supported the club through the Allison era – took me. The next day I have a …
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The list of anniversaries on 14 May is a strange bunch… I was mentioning the question of what happened in May 1910 when the club went to the very edge, and that crops up again here as the first time on the list. Famous names appear too – Mel Charles, Alex Forbes, Bill Dodgin, Don …
By Tony Attwood, Andy Kelly and Mark Andrews This is the story of May 1910 – the darkest days of Arsenal’s history. But what follows is just a part of the story of Woolwich Arsenal’s adventures – a story that you can read in full in Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football. More details …
Read More “When Arsenal died one man stepped up and rescued the club. The story of May 1910.”
By Tony Attwood It seems unbelievable that Arsenal should be talking to other clubs about buying part of Arsenal, but that is what was happening during May 1910, and today, 12 May represents a key moment in that process, as noted below. The Arsenal History blog has been having a bit of a breather for …
Read More “Arsenal open talks with Tottenham and Chelsea re them buying part of the club.”
By Tony Attwood John Charles Peart is one of Arsenal’s enigmas. Worse – he is a confused enigma. For not only do we know precious little of him, it is easy to confuse him with another footballer of the same era – John George Peart. So let’s start with what we do know. John Peart …
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By Tony Attwood Five strikers to solve Arsenal’s supposed problems. As you may know, if you have followed Untold through our difficult times of late, I’m not at all convinced we need another striker. But the fact is that we did make a title charge, once the focus of a flurry of online betting at …
The Arsenal History Society persuaded Ivan Gazidis, at a meeting in his office at the Emirates, to embark on the placement of a series of statues outside the ground. Our idea for the first one was Chapman. But that doesn’t mean we won’t rewrite his history as new information becomes available… For this article I …
Read More “Numbered shirts and Chapman – re-writing the story once again.”
2013/14 – the year it should have been Arsenal. In the early part of the season it looked like it could have been us. But should Arsenal have won the League in 2014? Here are some of the debating points, just in case you need reminding. 1. We should have had Suarez Some wanted him, …
A ticket for the match between a village side and Arsenal has caused the raising of memories of this game played in 1960 to mark the opening of a new clubhouse. The ticket was found by Mr Bree, who managed the Chalfont St Peter reserve team in the 1970s. The match took place on 8 September 1960, …
If you are an Untold reader, you will know that we have been forced off line for a number of days. We are getting things back together – although not posting new articles yet. You should find us on www.blog.emiratesstadium.info but if you have trouble (and don’t forget to click on F5 to refresh) try …
Yes, I know, Untold Arsenal is down again. And my hair which was already white, is now whiter – or totally fallen out. But it is possible to read Untold articles at http://untold-arsenal.com/ We can’t add any new ones, but there are articles there for you to read – just so you know we are …
Read More “You can still read Untold even during our problems”
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 …
Read More “Frederick William Davis. 150 games for Arsenal and we know so little.”
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.”
