Day: 13 August 2012

By Tony Attwood Anyone picking up the very first programme issued by Arsenal at Highbury, and reading it through from cover to cover might well have felt that the club was going overboard a bit with the money raising activity through trying to sell shares.  There were adverts on virtually every page for £1 shares …

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By Tony Attwood Arsenal 4 Tottenham 0, 13 August 1988. The Makita tournament was a summer tournament in London, which Arsenal organized initially as the Wembley International Tournament in August 1988.  Of course was the era of the first division so we didn’t have Premier League Betting, but after what happened I was sorely tempted …

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