AISA Arsenal History Society: preserving Arsenal's heritage
By Tony Attwood Having completed my short analysis of Woolwich Arsenal’s league results in the last article, I began to wonder what Tottenham’s results were like over the same period. No particular reason – I just thought it would be interesting. In fact it turned out to be more than interesting. Here’s the chart. After …
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Today’s Sponsor: “Making the Arsenal” – the most original book on Arsenal FC ever. . Today if an Arsenal supporter ever does think of Preston North End, it might be in the knowledge that they were the first Invincibles – unbeaten in the very first season of league football. With the black and white 19th …
Woolwich Arsenal 1, Aston Villa 0. Played early monday evening, in front of a crowd of just 8000. And certain sectors of the footballing establishment went beserk. If you have read the report of the game from two days before when Woolwich Arsenal drew with low-lying Bury, you’ll know that it left the table looking …
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Tottenham Hotspur: the dark history How an underhand strategy and a desire to rewrite history has transformed how people think about football in London. To begin, somewhere near the start, and take you into an interesting world of politics and sport unlike anything you’d see today in football, poker online or any professional sport… In …
100 years ago London had three Division I clubs – Woolwich Arsenal (who were actually in a small town in Kent), Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur. All three were having a tough time of it, and the only things that were keeping all three from being relegated were a) In those days, only two clubs went …
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Apart from focusing on football one hundred years ago, this site looks back on the major events in history surrounding clubs we are about to play in the present day. So this obviously is the moment to take a peek at the history of the infamous Reds and one of their misadventures. On 2nd April, …
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There was a rather strange comment on our sister site Untold Arsenal this week in which an Aston Villa fan said that Arsenal supporters have no right to comment on Villa when in fact Arsenal had bribed their way into the first division in 1919. I must admit I thought that the old Tiny Totts …
On UNTOLD ARSENAL after the Chelsea game I wrote a piece in which I suggested that some matches in the English Premier League are fixed. It is a debate that continues on that site. But it made me think it might be worth a meander around the time that this site deals with, in terms …
Sky News seem to have missed it, and it is not featuring on any of the blogs that I can see but the biggest match fixing scandal since 1914/15 is about to hit football. Let’s do the history first, since this is primarily a history site – but I will move onto the current situation …
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