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Arsenal win the world cup

Posted on 12 July 2018 by Tony Attwood

The Arsenal Anniversary Files Concerning that headline you might want to look at 12 July 1998. Below are the Arsenal (and occasionally one or two non-Arsenal) anniversaries for today taken from the complete files of over 6000 Arsenal anniversaries which appear on the Arsenal History Society website. An index to the Anniversary files can …

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Defeat to Peterborough, draw with Barnet. It’s not going to be good…

Posted on 11 July 2018 by Tony Attwood

The Arsenal Anniversary Files Concerning that headline you might want to look at 11 July 2003 and then think of what happened next. Below are the Arsenal (and occasionally one or two non-Arsenal) anniversaries for today taken from the complete files of over 6000 Arsenal anniversaries which appear on the Arsenal History Society website. …

Arsenal in the spring of 1924. Relegation is avoided; Chapman wins the League

Posted on 10 July 201814 July 2018 by Tony Attwood

By Tony Attwood Before we jump into the football allow me to take you back to the source of Sir Henry Norris’ fortune: property development. His company had built much of Fulham, working on the tried and tested approach that continued at least until the latter part of the 20th century, of building blocks of …

The signings of Platt and Alexis Sanchez, the leaving of Wrighty

Posted on 10 July 2018 by Tony Attwood

The Arsenal Anniversary Files Below are the Arsenal (and occasionally one or two non-Arsenal) anniversaries for today taken from the complete files of over 6000 Arsenal anniversaries which appear on the Arsenal History Society website. An index to the Anniversary files can be found in the left column of this site under “Pages” The current …

When the Tottenham manager became the Arsenal manager

Posted on 9 July 2018 by Tony Attwood

Farewell Court, Howe, Rostrom, Campbell. Hello O’Leary, Limpar, Cygan, 2nd double

Posted on 8 July 2018 by Tony Attwood

Arsenal make the best value transfer “of the last ten years”

Posted on 7 July 2018 by Tony Attwood

Arsenal closer and closer to relegation but Ramsay comes to the rescue

Posted on 6 July 20186 July 2018 by Tony Attwood

By Tony Attwood As we approached March 1924 in the last article Arsenal were being saved from relegation only by the fact that there were two teams having even worse runs than the Reds. Here’s the foot of the table at the start of the month. Pos Club P W D L F A G.Av Pts …

6 July – the day Arsenal’s history (almost) stopped

Posted on 6 July 20186 July 2018 by Tony Attwood

The Arsenal Anniversary Files 6 July: one of the days that almost defeats me in terms of finding Arsenal’s anniversaries. In fact I can only find two actual real anniversaries – a third is a date which is used to help trace what Henry Norris was up to during the first world war. Obviously July …

Having said no for years and years the League finally said numbered shirts were ok

Posted on 5 July 20185 July 2018 by Tony Attwood

The man who was leaving Arsenal daily for two solid years, but never did.

Posted on 4 July 20184 July 2018 by Tony Attwood

18 years ago today one of our greatest ever players signed for just £6m

Posted on 3 July 2018 by Tony Attwood

Arsenal propose the salary cap

Posted on 2 July 2018 by Tony Attwood

Farewell Dixon, Adams, Flamini, Sanogo, McCullough, Anderson, Richardson

Posted on 1 July 2018 by Tony Attwood

Arsenal in February 1924: Under Knighton’s guidance the club is sinking fast

Posted on 30 June 201830 June 2018 by Tony Attwood

By Tony Attwood The month began with a statement by the country’s new Labour government that it was going to do things differently. For the first time since the revolution seven years earlier, the UK recognised the Soviet Union as the legitimate government of what had previously been Russia. In the world of football, Cardiff’s …

Arsenal Anniversaries: The day when young hopefuls are released into the wild

Posted on 30 June 2018 by Tony Attwood

Jan 1924: Arsenal slip dangerously while Cardiff, Bolton and Huddersfield march upwards

Posted on 29 June 2018 by Tony Attwood

By Tony Attwood We have noted in earlier chapters that during the 1920s Sir Henry Norris had been taken seriously ill, had recuperated in Italy and France (where he had had a house built), and had withdrawn from politics. He had still been able to show his feisty side in successfully taking on a libel …

Cech makes Mourinho unhappy: Arsenal anniversaries, 29 June

Posted on 29 June 2018 by Tony Attwood

How Highbury Stadium was built in just ten weeks.

Posted on 28 June 2018 by Tony Attwood

Arsenal in Dec 1923. Misreporting in the press, Chapman appears, Norris’ political career

Posted on 27 June 2018 by Tony Attwood

By Tony Attwood At the start of December 1923 Arsenal League table at start of the month in 16th, four points above the relegation places. Pos Team P W D L F A GAv Pts 1 Cardiff City 16 8 7 1 27 16 1.688 23 2 Huddersfield Town 16 9 4 3 23 12 …

When a pre-season game was abandoned due to fighting

Posted on 27 June 2018 by Tony Attwood

When Arsenal announced 11 departures at once!

Posted on 26 June 2018 by Tony Attwood

The passing of Buchan and the leaving of Henry

Posted on 25 June 2018 by Tony Attwood

Arsenal to beat the world record transfer fee? The club’s history: November 1923

Posted on 24 June 2018 by Tony Attwood

By Tony Attwood As seemed to happen so often during the Knighton reign at Arsenal in the early 1920s, in November 1923 Arsenal started a month in the bottom section of the league, sitting not too far away from their two London rivals in the first division: Tottenham and Chelsea. Pos Club P W …

He didn’t make it at Arsenal, refused to play for Mexico and now is the star of the show

Posted on 24 June 2018 by Tony Attwood