Month: October 2013

6 October 2012 West Ham 1 Arsenal 3 Here are two reviews written at the time.  The first is from Gf60 and the second from Untold Arsenal. Gf60… A lot of firsts in this game. The first respectable goal we’ve conceded this year. It would be harsh to condemn Rambo, Per and the I.S for …

Read More “Giroud scores his first goal”

By Tony Attwood Arsenal played its first ever FA Cup match on 5 October 1889 against Lyndhurst at home in the first qualifying round.  It was played at the Manor Ground. But against whom did they play? Following a lead from a BBC article from 2002 I reached the view that they played Lyndhurst FC …

Read More “5 October 1889: Arsenal play their first FA Cup match – but against who?”

Jeffrey Paul Blockley was born on 12 September 1949.  He played for Arsenal for three seasons, and made one appearance for England.  He started out with Coventry City in the 1968/9 season and during his spell there played for England under 23s. It was on the back of this success, and during the period where Arsenal …

Read More “Jeff Blockley, derided by fans, but the manager should take more blame.”

By Tony Attwood This was the season Arsenal started by beating Everton 6-1 away and then hammered Portsmouth 4-1 at home.  Then consecutive defeats to the Manchester clubs knocked off the shine.  But then a series of seven games of which we won six and drew one returned a little faith. This match was the …

Read More “On the beating of Blackburn: 4 October 2009”

By Tony Attwood Perhaps the defining moment of Mr Wenger’s reign at Arsenal came right at the start – a moment which by his actions he not only stopped the press publishing an appalling set of allegations against him, but also set for all time the anti-Wenger, anti-Arsenal agenda of the press. Curiously it is …

Read More “1 October 1996: the origin of the journalist v Wenger campaign”