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 …
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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 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. …
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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 …
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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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AISA Arsenal History and Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal If you like Arsenal history with a difference you really should have a copy of Making the Arsenal – or at least give it to the fan with (almost) everything ================ David Herd, by Tony Attwood 1954 was one of Tom Whittaker’s rebuilding years. Having won …
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AISA Arsenal History and Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal The Christmas gift for the fan with (almost) everything ———————————- By Tony Attwood Victor George Groves commonly known as Vic was born on November 5th, 1932 in Stepney. He started out at Leytonstone, and those two points might make you think, “haven’t I read this before?” …
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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 Continuing the review of the players who were playing for Arsenal at the start of the Dark Era when we were managed by Swindin and …
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Arsenal History and Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal The Christmas gift for the fan with (almost) everything By Tony Attwood The season 1950/51 saw the launch of the Arsenal career of two Welsh players, whose names ring through history: Jack Kelsey and Dave Bowen. David Lloyd Bowen was born in Natyffyllon, near Maesteg on 7 …
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By Tony Attwood More time has been spent by the AISA Arsenal History Society debating the exact starting date of Arsenal FC’s existence than any other single topic. We’ve looked at Dial Square Cricket Club, and the way that some members wanted to have a football part of the club, we’ve looked at the supposed …
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