Arsenal v Brighton United – and an unexpected glimpse of the class struggle within football
By Tony Attwood On 31 October 1898 Woolwich Arsenal played Brighton United in the third and final season of the United League. Arsenal won 5-2 and the crowd was 2000. Arsenal’s team was Ord, McPhee, Fyfe, Haywood, Anderson, Dick, Cottrell, White, Hunt, Hannah and Daily. The team, as was common with United League games, was …
