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Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football. New info on publication date. Updated information here When Arsenal and Fulham were within moments of merging into one club… full details in “Making the Arsenal” We are on Twitter @Untold Arsenal ——————————— By Andy Kelly 26th April is a special day for Arsenal FC. On this …
By Tony Attwood I have been writing about Bertie Mee and his players – but there is another issue that I would like to cover. Indeed I would say I have been rather remiss in not covering this in earlier eras that we have looked at, and I hope to go back and make up …
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by Andy Kelly “Why on Earth are you writing about Leroy Rosenior on an Arsenal history site?” you are probably thinking. Well, whilst putting together Woolwich Arsenal – The Club That Changed Football I put it to my co‑authors that if one of Woolwich Arsenal’s directors hadn’t died at the young age of 28 then …
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——————- Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football. New info on publication date. Updated information here When Arsenal and Fulham were within moments of merging into one club… full details in “Making the Arsenal” ——————————— By Tony Attwood So far in this series on Bertie Mee’s years at Arsenal we have looked at the players …
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By Tony Attwood This article was written with a few games to go in the 2011/12 season. Now we know Arsenal finished 3rd, Tottenham 4th this season, and Chelsea… well, Chelsea… Anyway, here’s the record and in due course I’ll add the extra line to show this season… ——- The issue of beating Tottenham in …
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By Tony Attwood Peter Edwin Storey was one of the key players in the Mee era – he came into the first team a year before Mee arrived and left a year after Mee met. He is a man who, perhaps almost more than anyone else in the team, I would want to say thank …
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Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football. New info on publication date. Updated information here When Arsenal and Fulham were within moments of merging into one club… full details in “Making the Arsenal” ——————— By Tony Attwood Frank McLintock, our player of the year, and footballer of the year, during the Double season, was brought …
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—————– By Tony Attwood John Radford was born in Yorkshire in 1947 and played 475 league and cup games between 1964 and 1976 for Arsenal, scoring 149 goals. After that he went on to West Ham where he played 28 and scored none, and then had one season with Blackburn where he played 38 and …
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By Tony Attwood Peter Simpson is another of our long serving players who hit gold during the brief period of the Mee era when we won three trophies. In terms of league football, he was an Arsenal man throughout, and his only other clubs were in America, and Hendon. Here’s the record – effectively …
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By Tony Attwood As I have started looking at the players who played in the Bertie Mee sides that won our first Euro trophy and our first Double, it has become apparent just how many of those stars of 1970 and 1971 were actually signed during the Billy Wright era, which ended in the summer …
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By Tony Attwood The Billy Wright era ended in May 1966, so players signed before then were in theory at least signed by Billy Wright. Although that statement is obvious, I think this is important because some interesting players were signed and started playing before May 1966 – players who are associated with Mee but …
Read More “Bob Wilson, Billy Wright’s problem and Bertie Mee’s solution.”
by Tony Attwood I have called the era of Swindin and Wright, in which after an initial success we had no cup finals, and no top four finishes, The Darkness, and I have written bits and pieces about it because generally other people don’t write too much about that era. The series on that period …
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———————– Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football. Have your name in the book as an official sponsor. Updated information here When Arsenal and Fulham were within moments of merging into one club… full details in “Making the Arsenal” ——————- Bertie Mee – taking us back to reality To begin, a correction to the details …
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Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football. Have your name in the book as an official sponsor. Updated information here When Arsenal and Fulham were within moments of merging into one club… full details in “Making the Arsenal” ———————— By Tony Attwood This is an article in our series that aims to cover all the …
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By Tony Attwood An introduction to the George Allison section of the web site There’s no special article on George Allison on the Arsenal web site, and yet if we just judge him by his years as manager, and nothing else, is record is an attractive won… Two league titles, an FA cup victory and …
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By Tony Attwood The final Double quiz – concerning what happened after the Double of 71 1. In the 1971/2 we actually played two league games at Anfield. Why was this? Manchester United’s ground was shut – I think it was due to crowd trouble, but haven’t got the reference in front of me. Anyway, …
The First Double: The Quizzes By Tony Attwood As I am currently co-writing the book “Arsenal in the 70s” I have been running a little set of quizzes all this week about before, during and after the 1971 Double. Here is the final quiz, and below are the answers to yesterday’s quiz. If you would …
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Beyond 1970/1. What happened next? We have been running a little collection of quizzes all focussed around the 1971 Double. This is the fourth quiz in the series. At the end of this quiz you will find the answers to yesterday’s quiz. Answers to this one will be up tomorrow. 1. Arsenal won the league …
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This the third quiz in this little series – and it continues straight on from the last – trying to tease out the knowledge you have of the First Double in 1971. So, ten more questions still on the 1970/1 season – and below that the earlier set of questions on that season, but this …
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—————— Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football. Have your name in the book as an official sponsor. Updated information here When Arsenal and Fulham were within moments of merging into one club… full details in “Making the Arsenal” ——————– The 1970s quizzes, part 2: Winning the Double – 1970/71 By Tony Attwood In case …
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Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football. Have your name in the book as an official sponsor. Updated information here When Arsenal and Fulham were within moments of merging into one club… full details in “Making the Arsenal” ——————————— The first Arsenal History Society Quiz: Before the Double By Tony Attwood Rather than write a …
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———————— Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football. Have your name in the book as an official sponsor. Updated information here When Arsenal and Fulham were within moments of merging into one club… full details in “Making the Arsenal” ———————— By Tony Attwood The AAA, in case you have missed them, is the Anti-Arsenal Arsenal, …
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By Tony Attwood There were so many great players in Arsenal’s first golden era that it is hard to pick out the signing of any as providing the iconic moment, but I’ll try – with the signing of Cliff Bastin who went on to be our highest peace-time scorer before Ian Wright. Clifford Sydney Bastin …
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Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football. Have your name in the book as an official sponsor. Updated information here The day when Fulham tried to take over Arsenal – the full story in “Making the Arsenal” We’re on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Tony Attwood If you know any Arsenal history at all you will know …
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————————————————————– Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football. Have your name in the book as an official sponsor. Updated information here The day when Fulham tried to take over Arsenal – the full story in “Making the Arsenal” We’re on Twitter @UntoldArsenal —————— by Andy Kelly Following on from my last article celebrating Arsenal’s first …
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