Arsenal – Page 95 – The History of Arsenal

After all the myth making, he admitted he’d already re-signed for Leicester

Posted on 23 June 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 …

Woolwich Arsenal begins, Chapman arrives, our first benefactor dies

Posted on 22 June 2018 by Tony Attwood

October 1923: Arsenal learn variable tactics as the vultures circle over Henry Norris

Posted on 21 June 2018 by Tony Attwood

By Tony Attwood For Arsenal the month of October 1923 began with a game against Manchester City at Maine Road on the 6th. The League table printed in the programme for the game showed both clubs as needing to win to rise up the league and find safety althoughwith City in a slightly worse position …

So awful did the press think him, they ran a weekly column on his mistakes. Arsenal signed him.

Posted on 21 June 2018 by Tony Attwood

Very early example of a reserve team programme

Posted on 20 June 201820 June 2018 by Tony Attwood

By Tony Attwood Paul Matz of the AISA Arsenal History Society has one of the most extensive and extraordinary collections of Arsenal memorabilia including of course a wide range of programmes. And yesterday I was privileged to see what might well be the oldest Arsenal reserve programme in existence – for a match on April …

The second Arsenal physio to become Arsenal manager and win the League.

Posted on 20 June 201820 June 2018 by Tony Attwood

The Arsenal Anniversary Files Here 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 …

A career horribly hampered by injury; a life cut short by war.

Posted on 19 June 2018 by Tony Attwood

The first man to score at Highbury, and first man to be carried off injured at Highbury.

Posted on 18 June 2018 by Tony Attwood

“If you think you can do a better job at Arsenal than me, just take the club over.”

Posted on 17 June 2018 by Tony Attwood

When Arsenal took over a non-league team as its official feeder club.

Posted on 16 June 2018 by Tony Attwood

Arsenal in September 1923: recovery after a terrible start; a new insight into Henry Norris

Posted on 15 June 201815 June 2018 by Tony Attwood

By Tony Attwood After a home defeat to Newcastle by 1-4 and a 0-1 away defeat to West Ham in August 1923, Arsenal and their supporters were desperate for the team not to fall into the early downward spiral that had beset them across recent seasons in the opening games, leaving them with a relegation …

Arsenal buy Highbury, Rioch becomes manager

Posted on 15 June 2018 by Tony Attwood

The Anniversary Files Here 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 historical …

Selling the best player to pay the bills: its almost as old as Arsenal itself

Posted on 14 June 2018 by Tony Attwood

Norris knighted, Wright sacked, English teams banned, Bould signed

Posted on 13 June 2018 by Tony Attwood

He came, he saw, he played three friendlies, he left. Clive Allen at Arsenal

Posted on 12 June 2018 by Tony Attwood

Chapman and Brady: joining the club 46 years apart.

Posted on 11 June 2018 by Tony Attwood

Anticipation a plenty but another terrible start to the season: August 1923

Posted on 11 June 2018 by Tony Attwood

By Tony Attwood Arsenal’s first league match of the 1923/4 season was to be played on 25 August and there were two pre-season friendlies (I suspect the Reds against the Blues or First Team against the Reserves, as normal) on the two Saturdays prior to the kick off. And so, probably in common with …

Arsenal anniversaries and the most curious case of Park Chu Young

Posted on 10 June 2018 by Tony Attwood

George Graham’s greatest mistake

Posted on 9 June 2018 by Tony Attwood

Arsenal fined for playing a weakened team

Posted on 8 June 2018 by Tony Attwood

The one and only time Arsenal played a league match in June

Posted on 7 June 2018 by Tony Attwood

When Henry Norris became the first chairman of Fulham FC.

Posted on 6 June 2018 by Tony Attwood

Farewell our Russian genius who never quite clicked

Posted on 5 June 20184 June 2018 by Tony Attwood

Arsenal in the Summer 1923: another Knighton allegation but the evidence is against him.

Posted on 4 June 20184 June 2018 by Tony Attwood

By Tony Attwood As with other Arsenal in the summer articles, rather than stick to the exact chronology of events I am going to work through a few themes and stories, which will bend the chronology slightly. And to begin this Arsenal in the summer meander I’ll consider the tale of Jock Rutherford’s summer. By …

The Arsenal man who single handedly raised 3 brigades in the 1st world war.

Posted on 4 June 2018 by Tony Attwood