Bob Benson, Arsenal player with a great sense of humour, who died playing for the club.
By Tony Attwood Robert William Benson, known as “Bob” was born in Whitehaven in Cumbria on 9 February 1883. His first club is recorded as Shankhouse of the Northern Alliance, and then Shalwell (a district near Newcastle – but I can find no record of the club), and Wikipedia suggests that at the same time …
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