AISA Arsenal History Society: preserving Arsenal's heritage
By Tony Attwood Day by Day: the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. Day by Day: the stories– a key moment in Arsenal and footballing history for each day of the year Arsenal in April – all the anniversaries day by day On 28 April 1934 Arsenal went into their penultimate match …
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Day by Day: the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. Day by Day: the stories– a key moment in Arsenal and footballing history for each day of the year Arsenal in April – all the anniversaries day by day by Tony Attwood On this day Thierry Henry was voted PFA Player of …
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Day by Day: the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. Day by Day: the stories– a key moment in Arsenal and footballing history for each day of the year Arsenal in April – all the anniversaries day by day by Tony Attwood The end of the 1974/5 season was not exactly exciting …
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by Tony Attwood Day by Day: the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. Day by Day: the stories– a key moment in Arsenal and footballing history for each day of the year Arsenal in April – all the anniversaries day by day Arsenal won the League, at White Hart Lane, for the …
Read More “25 April 2004: Arsenal win the league at WHL – for the second time!”
By Tony Attwood Henry Norris at the Arsenal: There is a full index to the series here. Arsenal in the 1930s: The most comprehensive series on the decade ever Arsenal in the 1970s: Every match and every intrigue reviewed in detail. 100 Years: 100 Years in the First Division In 1998/9 Arsenal played in three high scoring games. On …
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By Tony Attwood Henry Norris at the Arsenal: There is a full index to the series here. Arsenal in the 1930s: The most comprehensive series on the decade ever Arsenal in the 1970s: Every match and every intrigue reviewed in detail. 100 Years: 100 Years in the First Division Dennis Compton CBE died on this day, the first day …
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by Tony Attwood With Arsene Wenger having announced that he was leaving Arsenal, “Match of the Day” on BBC TV featured the “Football should be an art” banner, at the Arsenal Stadium, in its opening sequences for the Arsenal match against West Ham United, which Arsenal won 4-1. The banner was organised by AISA members and …
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By Tony Attwood Day by Day: the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. Day by Day: the stories– a key moment in Arsenal and footballing history for each day of the year Arsenal in April – all the anniversaries day by day This game took place five days before Arsenal’s FA Cup …
By Tony Attwood Henry Norris at the Arsenal: There is a full index to the series here. Arsenal in the 1930s: The most comprehensive series on the decade ever Arsenal in the 1970s: Every match and every intrigue reviewed in detail. 100 Years: 100 Years in the First Division The simplest way to measure a manager’s success or …
Read More “20 April 2018:Arsène Wenger announced his departure from Arsenal.”
By Tony Attwood Henry Norris at the Arsenal: There is a full index to the series here. Arsenal in the 1930s: The most comprehensive series on the decade ever Arsenal in the 1970s: Every match and every intrigue reviewed in detail. 100 Years in the First Division At a time when many fans are complaining about Arsenal being …
Read More “19 April 1975: On this day in history – QPR 0 Arsenal 0; Arsenal 17th in the league”
By Tony Attwood Henry Norris at the Arsenal: There is a full index to the series here. Arsenal in the 1930s: The most comprehensive series on the decade ever Arsenal in the 1970s: Every match and every intrigue reviewed in detail. 100 Years in the First Division So, a 5-0 win over Wimbledon on this day – a …
By Tony Attwood Henry Norris at the Arsenal: There is a full index to the series here. Arsenal in the 1930s: The most comprehensive series on the decade ever Arsenal in the 1970s: Every match and every intrigue reviewed in detail. 100 Years in the First Division 1925/6 was Herbert Chapman’s first season at Arsenal, having left Huddersfield …
Henry Norris at the Arsenal: There is a full index to the series here. Arsenal in the 1930s: The most comprehensive series on the decade ever Arsenal in the 1970s: Every match and every intrigue reviewed in detail. 100 Years in the First Division Freddie Ljungberg was born on 16 April 1977 in Sweden and was spotted as …
By Tony Attwood Day by Day: the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. Day by Day: the stories– a key moment in Arsenal and footballing history for each day of the year Arsenal in April – all the anniversaries day by day 1921 was a time of great industrial unrest in Britain, …
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By Tony Attwood Day by Day: the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. Day by Day: the stories– a key moment in Arsenal and footballing history for each day of the year Arsenal in April – all the anniversaries day by day On this day in 1914 The Times, known as the …
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Day by Day: the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. Day by Day: the stories– a key moment in Arsenal and footballing history for each day of the year Arsenal in April – all the anniversaries day by day Although crowds after the first world war were much higher than those before …
Read More “14 February 1925: the first trial of the new offside rule”
by Tony Attwood Fans can turn on players – it has happened over the years. Indeed it has happened all the way through the history of the club right back to the 19th century. Probably the first man to receive this treatment was Harry Storer who was born on 24 July 1870 and died aged just …
Read More “13 April 1895: the first ever Arsenal player to get representative honours”
Day by Day: the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. Day by Day: the stories– a key moment in Arsenal and footballing history for each day of the year Arsenal in April – all the anniversaries day by day By Tony Attwood On 12 April 1913 Arsenal were almost relegated – although …
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by Tony Attwood On 11 April 1977 with 47,432 in the crowd the score was Arsenal 1 Tottenham Hotspur 0. The result edged Tottenham closer to the second division and took Macdonald, who scored, a little closer to the Daily Express’ prize of £10,000 to be given to the first player to get 30 …
Read More “11 April 1977: Arsenal beat Tottenham – Tottenham get relegated.”
by Tony Attwood Arsenal won the First Division Championship by drawing with Huddersfield 1-1 with four games to go. Arsenal then lost one and drew two of the remaining games before winning the final match 8-0. After the game (and remember this was the era of two points for a win, not three) Arsenal had …
Read More “10 April 1948: Arsenal win the league for the sixth time”
Day by Day: the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. Day by Day: the stories– a key moment in Arsenal and footballing history for each day of the year Arsenal in April – all the anniversaries day by day James (Jimmy) Ashcroft is a player of enormous importance in the history of …
Read More “9 April 1943: Remembering Jimmy Ashcroft – Arsenal’s first great goalkeeper”
By Tony Attwood Arsenal 3 Ajax 0. Fairs Cup semi final first leg. (George 2, Sammels) We remember this day because it was a major step on the road to the first trophy since 1953. But perhaps we had realised that this might be the end of the drought right back on 18 March with …
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The Arsenal History Society has collected hundreds of historic videos of the club’s games, which are sorted In Date Order: An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. In Order of the Clubs Played: 300+ Historic Videos Today we’ve picked out four games against Brighton…. 26 January 2013 25 January …
By Tony Attwood When we first hit on the idea of finding an Arsenal video for every day of the year we also added in the restriction that the video should be of an Arsenal victory. And curiously for 7 April that provided difficult. So until now on our schedule of Arsenal matches throughout the …
Day by Day: the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. Day by Day: the stories– a key moment in Arsenal and footballing history for each day of the year Arsenal in April – all the anniversaries day by day By Tony Attwood On 7 April 1994, the death of Albert Sigurður Guðmundsson …
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