AISA Arsenal History Society: preserving Arsenal's heritage
James Boyle was born on 11 July 1886 in Springburn, Glasgow and started out playing for Towerhill – a team the for whom the only reference to which I can find is an entry for them playing in the 1876/7 Scottish cup. In 1890 he signed for Celtic and played his first game against Vale …
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Arsenal 2 WBA 0; 8 December 2012 The score in relation to this match looks bland. So why bother with it? To me this game is the symbol of all the turmoil of the 2012/13 season and the start of our way out of it. On 17 November 2012 Arsenal beat Tottenham 5-2, after …
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Ian Ure was born 7 December 1939 and according to Wiki played for Ayr Albion – a club about which I can find out nothing. But after that the story is clearer, as he did indeed play for Dundee and as a member of their championship side is inducted into their hall of fame. He …
By Tony Attwood and Gerry McLeod Woolwich Arsenal’s first ground at the Manor in Plumstead could hold a maximum of around 32,000, although it was rarely full. Twice in the 1905/6 season gates of 30,000 were recorded – on April 13 1906 against Aston Villa in the league and for the 5-0 thrashing of Sunderland …
Go in the Arsenal shop and you’ll find a load of Arsenal Christmas gifts. Including the three books that the Arsenal History Society have produced. But here’s an incentive. You can get them in time for Christmas direct from the Arsenal History Society (that’s us) at a discount price. Also if buying Making the …
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By Tony Attwood and Gerry McLeod 17 March 2009 is not a day that Hull City FC are likely to want to remember. It was the day on which their increasingly erratic and downright odd Hull manager Phil Brown claimed that he had seen Cesc Fàbregas spit at the Hull assistant manager Brian Horton at the end of …
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By Tony Attwood and Gerry McLeod November / December 1968 was the first time ever that Tottenham and Arsenal met in the semi-finals of not just the League Cup but also the FA Cup. It was an event which following a match in this round of the League Cup many years later, gave the …
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3 December 2011: Wigan 0 Arsenal 4, making it six wins and a draw in the last 7 Arsenal had started 2011/12 disastrously with a 0-0 draw at N ewcastle, a 0-2 home defeat to Liverpool, the 8-2 away defeat to Man U, and only finally in the fourth match, a victory 1-0 against Swansea. …
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2 December 1933: Arsenal 2 Liverpool 1 making it 8 wins and two draws in last 10. As a result Arsenal sat proud at the top of the league after this game. Crowd; 38,362. Goals by Hulme and Dunne. The club was already champions having won the league in 1932/3, and although the free scoring …
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By Tony Attwood After years of work my colleagues Andy Kelly and Mark Andrews of the AISA Arsenal History Society finally resolved the details of the first game of the club that was to become Royal Arsenal, Woolwich Arsenal, The Arsenal and finally Arsenal. As Andy reported in an article on this site on April …
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