AISA Arsenal History Society: preserving Arsenal's heritage
Tony Attwood, Match data supplied by Andy Kelly Royal Arsenal’s seventh season was their last. They played a record number of games, but disaster (and recovery) was just around the corner. Date 1892/1893 Opponents V Cup Res Att 01 Sep 92 Highland Light Infantry H Fr 8-0 3,000 03 Sep 92 Gainsborough Trinity …
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6 January 1971: Yeovil 0 Arsenal 3 FA Cup round 3. The chairman does his thing. Tony Attwood The game of the minnows from outside the football league playing the aristocrats of division 1 could have been a nice friendly and warm affair but it wasn’t. Arsenal entered the match second in the league after …
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By Tony Attwood A couple of years ago I ran a little piece here about Arsenal’s first foreign player. Much of the article was taken up with the issue of definition, but taking it at its narrowest finding Scottish players is a doddle (they were at Royal Arsenal from the start), and the rest of …
By Tony Attwood The defeat of Arsenal by Wrexham of the fourth division on 4 January 1992 was not just a big piece of giant killing, it was the giant killing of the league champions, and as such needs to be seen alongside the defeat of Herbert Chapman’s Arsenal by Walsall of the third division …
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So where have we got to with the story of the early days of Royal Arsenal? Here’s the summary so far. Season 1 Plumstead Common (1886/7) Season 2 The Sportsman’s Ground (1887/8) Season 3 The Manor Field (1888/89) Season 4 The Manor Field (1889/90) growing crowds Season 5 The Invicta Ground (1890/91) the idea of professionalism Now …
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1890/91: Season 5 – the last season as an amateur club, the first season at the Invicta Ground By Tony Attwood Season five of the Royal Arsenal was an utterly momentus season in every way. Indeed it is quite amazing that it is not written more fully about in every Arsenal history book, for the …
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Arsenal have reached double figures in FA Cup matches on four occasions: 5 October 1889: Royal Arsenal 11 Lyndhurt 0 29 October 1892: Royal Arsenal 10 City Ramblers 1 14 October 1894: Woolwich Arsenal 12 Ashford United 0 9 January 1932: Arsenal 11 Darwen 1. There are two main differences between the first three of …
