AISA Arsenal History Society: preserving Arsenal's heritage
Iconic moments in the history of Arsenal By Tony Attwood It is a general, and generally unspoken, rule, that Arsenal does not comment on the comments in the media – no matter how wrong, misleading and downright vile they are. But there was a moment during the 1970/1 double season when Arsenal felt moved to …
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By Tony Attwood This week the AISA Arsenal History Society will be publishing the second in a series of reviews of Arsenal’s history – this one covering the start of the Norris Era, and the move from Plumstead to Highbury. As with the first publication in the series the publication contains revelations about Arsenal’s history …
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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 almost merged to become one club. Read the story in “Making the Arsenal” ————————- Tom Whittaker wins the league By Tony Attwood Tom Whittaker is one of the great …
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Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football. Have your name in the book as an official sponsor. Updated information here By Tony Attwood In 1932/3 Arsenal won the league under Herbert Chapman. Chapman died in January 1934 and Joe Shaw took over and we won the 1933/4 league under him. In the summer of 1934 …
———————————- Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football. Have your name in the book as an official sponsor. Updated information here ———————————– By Tony Attwood It is not unknown for Arsenal fans not fully versed in the club’s history to believe that Herbert Chapman won three consecutive championships with Arsenal, having done the same with …
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By Mark Andrews and Andy Kelly After our last post regarding shareholdings we were sent some very interesting 1910, 1911 and 1914 registers of shareholders. While various sources on the net have alluded in the past to Glasgow Rangers holding shares in The Arsenal, these lists show that they did purchase 2 shares sometime in the latter part of 1910 and early 1911. …
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Hello, In the past Tony has requested information from readers who knew or thought they knew that their relatives played for Woolwich Arsenal. As we are nearing the drafting section of the book, this is a similar request but concerning anyone whose relative was a director or who has been told their ancestor was 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 Want to contact Arsenal History Society or this blog? See important note at the foot of this article. ————————————– Iconic moment 6: the appointment of Chapman By Tony Attwood Spring 1925. It is almost …
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————————————————————– Click here to become part of the definitive history of Woolwich Arsenal FC Follow us on Twitter @Untold Arsenal ————– By Tony Attwood While we see promotion and relegation based on final league positions as normal today, for much of the existence of the Football League and other leagues in England, this has not …
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———————– Arsenal’s 125th anniversary celebrations continued in the Jubilee Committee Room at the House of Commons in London on Thursday 12th January in a meeting hosted by Islington North MP Jeremy Corbyn, whose constituency includes the Emirates Stadium, and who is an Arsenal supporter. Guest of honour was Philippa Dawson, the great great grand daughter …
——————————— Click here to become part of the definitive history of Woolwich Arsenal FC Follow us on Twitter @Untold Arsenal ————————————- By Tony Attwood This is a series about iconic moments in the history of Arsenal, not about anniversaries that the club or the fans might like to celebrate but with Highbury the two combine. …
By Tony Attwood On January 12 2012 in the historic setting of the House of Commons, the AISA Arsenal History Society will hold its first social. And as part of that event my colleagues and I in the Society will take the opportunity to launch the forthcoming book written by three of the officers …
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By Tony Attwood If 1893 was traumatic, with Arsenal fighting corruption and intrigue in the form of Royal Ordnance Factories (whose sole purpose was to close down Arsenal and set up a rival Plumstead club), 1910 was, in a very real sense, the end. Arsenal had risen, and risen fast. True they had not won …
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By Mark Andrews and Tony Attwood Twice in the first 25 years of its existence Arsenal football club came to the very brink of going out of existence. Yet in virtually all the histories of the club the first of these disasters (in 1893) is written (if at all) as a minor incident of no …
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By Tony Attwood My thought in this new series is not to find the 10 greatest moments (3 cup and league doubles and that sort of thing) but rather the moments that defined Arsenal as a club, and set out the way things would go in the future. It is fairly obvious that in such …
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By Tony Attwood This is one of those articles that really has nothing to say, other than the question in the headline. Mascots these days are people dressed up in silly costumes. We have Gunnersaurous, although I have probably not got the spelling right, and most clubs have those. But in the past there were …
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This is the start of a chronology of Arsenal FC built by Andy Kelly, Mark Andrews and Tony Attwood, of the AISA Arsenal History Society. There is a long way to go, but every journey starts with a single step (Lao-Tzu). So here we go – please write in the comments and add the ones …
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By Mark Andrews The upcoming threat of a tube strike has led to the Boxing Day game being postponed for 24 hours. However while travelling to the rescheduled Wolves game, spare a thought for the players, officials and fans in 1904. With Woolwich Arsenal having been promoted to the first division for the first time, …
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By Tony Attwood Occasionally we get emails (both on this blog and directly to the AISA Arsenal History Society) pointing out that we are changing the story. One day we have said x, the next day y. And yes, that is perfectly true. We do change the story, and we do this because the Arsenal …
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Joe Haverty (17 February 1936 – 7 February 2009) played for Home Farm FC and St Patrick’s Athletic in Ireland (reaching the country’s Cup final), and then signed for Arsenal in 1954 joining the side on 25 August 1965 aged 18. At 5 feet 3 inches he is one of the smallest players ever for …
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Follow us on Twitter @Untold Arsenal ———————————- “Making the Arsenal” – is available on Amazon, Arsenal on line, the Woolwich Arsenal site and in the Arsenal store. —————————————- Untold History…Untold Media … Untold Ref Reviews … Untold Economics … Untold Corruption … Untold Wenger … Untold News … Untold Fifa … Untold Players … Untold …
AISA Arsenal History and Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal The Christmas gift for the fan with (almost) everything ———————————- By Tony Attwood If there is one thing that the 125 celebrations taught us, is that if we are to have any influence on Arsenal’s decisions on what to celebrate and how to celebrate it, we …
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By Tony Attwood For something that started out as little more than an idea at the AGM of the Arsenal Independent Supporters’ Association just two and a half years ago, the AISA Arsenal History Society has come an extraordinarily long way in a very short space of time. We’ve done some interesting things along the …
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by Andy Kelly Last Friday I was one of three people (Tony Attwood and Mark Andrews being the other two) that received an e-mail from Paul Matz of AISA asking if one of us would like to attend the unveiling of the three legends’ statues on 9 December. The club had invited 100 special guests to the ceremony. …
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Follow us on Twitter @Untold Arsenal ———————————- “Making the Arsenal” – is available on Amazon, Arsenal on line, the Woolwich Arsenal site and in the Arsenal store. By Tony Attwood With all the arrogance that comes from feeling so clever in terms of being the guy who suggested to Ivan Gazidis that we should have …
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