Season Ticket Prices 1905/1906

Tony, In the season ticket article from  http://afchistory.wordpress.com/ you asked what the prices were in 1905. Well earlier in the pre-season on 30th June 1905 they were advertised in the Kentish Independent. Please see below. At this time the skilled Royal Arsenal artisans would have been paid up to approx £3 a week, and the unskilled labourer at the …

Season Tickets On Sale at Arsenal, (24th July 1905)

By Tony Attwood I missed this yesterday, but Yogi’s Warrior, who runs the excellent Arsenal on this Day site kindly pointed it out to me.   I am hoping he doesn’t mind if I take his kindness further and reprint the whole thing as it is a rather find instance of how widespread the interest in …

Herbert Chapman – just how great were his achievements

If you think you know your Arsenal history – it is time to think again.  Never before has one book so transformed what we know about a football club.  Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football. —————————————- Herbert Chapman – an overview of his achievements By Tony Attwood When Herbert Chapman became manager he took over …