Day: 16 December 2013

As you’ll know if you have read any of our commentaries on the crowds at Woolwich Arsenal, taking a punt on the outcome of football matches has been something the Arsenal crowd has done from the moment the club started playing in the league in 1893. Indeed as we’ve reported here in the past, and …

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By Tony Attwood The Southern Professional Charity Cup was a competition that existed at least from 1901/2 to 1907/08 – although it may have lasted a little longer.  Certainly Arsenal only competed in it during that period. Each year seven or eight teams took part.  These included Portsmouth, Tottenham Hotspur, Millwall, West Ham United, Reading, …

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