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By Tony Attwood It is late in the afternoon and I’ve only just had it pointed out to me (by a colleague on the committee of the Arsenal Independent Supporters Association) that 10 May is Dennis Bergkamp’s birthday. He was born… 10 May 1969 Happy Birthday Dennis. I’ll add the date to the anniversary list, …
by Tony Attwood I am grateful to Uncle Mike for writing in and pointing out two anniversaries for May 8. Pressure of work and the like meant that I was not able to prepare a note at the start of the day about this, but better late than never. May 8 was the day on …
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Mark Andrews At the front of the blog is a caveat “This site represents very much a forum for knocking around ideas and seeking out issues that can be debated. As such we openly acknowledge that some of the notions expressed here might be wrong, and will need correcting. Indeed if you can help us …
Read More “Arsenal possibly played its first match on the Isle of Dogs. Revised 2012 version”
7 May 2003 The start of Arsenal’s 49 games without defeat. We had, as I recall, just lost the chance of winning the league through draw away to Bolton and an unexpected home defeat to Leeds a couple of days before. On the walk up to Highbury for the Leeds game tickets from the touts …
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By Tony Attwood Continuing the occasional series about life under Terry Neill. Bertie Mee went into his final season of 1975/76 with this team: Rimmer Rice Mancini O’Leary Nelson Kelly Brady Cropley Armstrong Hornsby Kidd After a while the team changed a bit and Ball, Stapleton and Ross became regulars. But it was a highly …
Read More “The end of Bertie Mee and the start of Terry Neill’s era”
By Tony Attwood 4 May 1994 – Arsenal won the EUFA Cup Winners Cup by beating Parma 1-0. Parma were the defending champions having beaten Antwerp the previous season, and were trying to be the first team to retain the trophy. The game was held at the Parken Stadium in Copenhagen, which had opened in …
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By Tony Attwood Returning to the theme of last weekend, here is the analysis of the number of top 4 finishes achieved by managers against the number of games the managers were in charge for. As mentioned before the “top four” notion is arbitrary, as are all other measurements – but it gives a reasonable …
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We’re building a list of anniversaries of the club. It is quite interesting that as we are in the 125th year of the club, and approaching the 100th anniversary of the move to Highbury, there is no big list of anniversaries available, so clearly this is something to be set up. Our list has …
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By Tony Attwood With each of the articles on managers in this long-running series I have tried to do a little summary of their achievements. But I felt that before I went further with Terry Neil it would be good to have an overall summary of all Arsenal managers. The table of Arsenal management and …
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By Tony Attwood We have been building up a series of files on Arsenal managers and recently did some work on Bertie Mee. Bertie Mee reigned until his resignation at the end of the 1975/76 season. The side that had contested five cup finals in five years, had won the club’s first ever European trophy, …
Read More “The Terry Neill Years: three cup finals a 3rd and two 4ths”
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 …
Read More “The flavour of football 1973: fights, bookings, and the end of civilisation”
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 …
Read More “The players he let go and the signings that Bertie made”
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 …
Read More “George Armstrong: signed by Swindin but came good under Mee”
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 …
Read More “When 4,554 turned up to watch Arsenal, and a reign ended.”
———————– 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 …
Read More “Bertie Mee, the trophies, ballroom dancing, left hook and the OBE.”
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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