AISA Arsenal History Society: preserving Arsenal's heritage
The Arsenal History Society is part of the Arsenal Independent Supporters Association – a body which gives positive support to the club, and has regular meetings with directors and senior officials of the club to represent the views of its members to the club. You can read more about AISA on its website. Below you will find …
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One of the traits that Arsenal are regularly said to have is a “lack of ambition” – this is revealed, we are told, in the players that are brought in. Minor players who won’t make any difference to the club. Players we can get on the cheap. Players such as… Rob Holding. For this was …
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by Tony Attwood Although every Arsenal supporter must know about Herbert Chapman (not least because of the statue of Chapman that the Arsenal History Society persuaded Arsenal FC to erect at the new stadium, “looking up at the stadium as if to say ‘I did that’,”) not everyone knows of the Chapman team, and how …
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The Arsenal History Society is part of the Arsenal Independent Supporters Association – a body which gives positive support to the club, and has regular meetings with directors and senior officials of the club to represent the views of its members to the club. You can read more about AISA on its website. Below you will find …
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Over the last ten years or so we have managed to help a number of relatives of ex-Arsenal players get in touch with each other. Unfortunately I don’t have the resources to link people together and preserve the anonymity of those who wish to stay anonymous, but there is still a way you can get …
Read More “Finding lost long relatives via Arsenal History Society”
The Arsenal History Society is part of the Arsenal Independent Supporters Association – a body which gives positive support to the club, and has regular meetings with directors and senior officials of the club to represent the views of its members to the club. You can read more about AISA on its website. Below you will find …
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The Arsenal History Society is part of the Arsenal Independent Supporters Association – a body which gives positive support to the club, and has regular meetings with directors and senior officials of the club to represent the views of its members to the club. You can read more about AISA on its website. Below you will find …
The Arsenal History Society is part of the Arsenal Independent Supporters Association – a body which gives positive support to the club, and has regular meetings with directors and senior officials of the club to represent the views of its members to the club. You can read more about AISA on its website. We currently have two …
The Arsenal History Society is part of the Arsenal Independent Supporters Association – a body which gives positive support to the club, and has regular meetings with directors and senior officials of the club to represent the views of its members to the club. You can read more about AISA on its website. We currently …
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John Jensen played 99 games for Arsenal and scored one (rather famous) goal. The last we heard of John Jensen was in September 2018, when he took charge of the Danish national team following a dispute between the Danish FA and the players. He was quoted at the time as saying, “When I say yes …
That was the headline on this day in 1998 as the footballing media completed their move from a position of it “not being right” for English football to be full of foreigners, to recognising, finally, that Arsenal’s revolutionary approach had worked brilliantly, and had made English football far more exciting. It was of course the …
Nothing signified the way in which Arsene Wenger had utterly revolutionised Arsenal more than the 1998 world cup finals in which four Arsenal players were in the victorious French squad, while Dennis Bergkamp won the award for the World Cup Goals of the Tournament. At the time of Mr Wenger joining Arsenal in September 1996, …
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The arrival and non-arrival of Edu on this day in 2000 was a matter that made some Tottenham fans giggle a little, as the player was refused entry into the UK, (although this has no link with our commemoration of the day of The battle of the Spurs – see below) and they probably laughed …
The Arsenal History Society, which presents these anniversaries each day, is part of the Arsenal Independent Supporters Association, a grouping which has direct access to Arsenal FC and is active in representing supporters’ views and opinions to the club, through regular meetings with directors and officials. You can read about AISA’s work on its new …
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On this day in 1976 Terry Neil became Arsenal manager joining from Tottenham, where he had been a failure. He managed Arsenal for 416 games finally being replaced by Don Howe in December 1983, his one trophy being the 1979 FA Cup. His win percentage was 44.95% putting him 16th in the list of managers …
Here are the anniversaries for today. For the index of anniversaries month by month please see under “Pages” on the right side of the screen. The file for each month is updated at least once a year, normally at the end of that month. Henry Norris at the Arsenal: There is a full index to the …
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On this day in 1998 David Platt was released from his Arsenal contract. Twenty years on, as you will see below he became a consultant for U.S. Città di Palermo of Italy’s Serie B. Looking at the anniversaries for this day I thought I’d see what happened to that club and perhaps what happened to …
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Football anniversaries are few and far between in July, but even so we have still found two transfers, an appointment of an ex-Arsenal player as manager of Derby County and the date on which Henry Norris made a speech. The latter point, while seemingly of little interest to anyone, is one of those bits of …
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The media eternally aim to persuade us that they simply report the news, but of course they always do so with a slant. For the mere selection of one item as news and another as not worth reporting itself results in bias. Yet just occasionally they are caught out, as in 1982 when the Italian …
The Arsenal History Society is part of Arsenal Independent Supporters Association, a group which is recognised by the club. You can find out more about AISA from its website The History Society also has its own website (which you are currently reading) which contains numerous articles and series which explore Arsenal’s history and correct the …
When the first world war broke out on 28 July 1914, there was little thought of forcing the Football League to abandon the forthcoming season. There was no precedent for this, and besides the general view was that the whole affair would be over by Christmas. As a result the 1914/15 season kicked off on …
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A salary cap is what was proposed by Ivan Gazidis on this day in 2009, but it was turned down the the Premier League clubs. Had it been accepted the explosion of expenditure by Chelsea would have been kept under control as would that subsequently at Manchester City. It is also likely that the availability …
Most reports on Henry Norris, the Arsenal owner from 1910 to 1927, suggest he was a man of dubious character, fixing matches, not allowing his managers to manage, and most of all corruptly organising Arsenal’s election into the first division in 1919. We’ve shown in great detail on this site that all these things were …
While much of June does not have many Arsenal related anniversaries to report, 30 June is the exception as it is the day on which contracts end and players are released. We’ve included quite a few of these below, particularly for more recent years. 30 June is quite a day in history – Tower Bridge …
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On this day in 1971 Don Howe left Arsenal having coached the team to the Double. It can most certainly be argued that if he had stayed and acted as a moderating vision on Bertie Mee’s visions, the rapid decline of the club into a near relegation side would have been avoided. Don Howe was …
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