AISA Arsenal History Society: preserving Arsenal's heritage
By Tony Attwood On 21 February 1998 Arsenal made it seven consecutive games undefeated by beating Crystal Palace 1-0, at home. It was Arsenal’s lowest crowd of the season, which is a shame because the match witnessed a stunning goal by one of Arsenal’s most underrated players of all time: Gilles Grimandi. Quite why the match …
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First a few warm ups that are not in the anniversary files… Warm up 1: How many times have Arsenal won the FA Cup? 11. Warm up 2: Who has won the Cup more times than Arsenal? No one Warm up 3: Which two teams have been in the most Cup Finals? Arsenal and Man …
By Tony Attwood As coincidences go, this one is fairly near the top of the list of strange and unexpected ones. 15 February 1930: Middlesbrough 0 Arsenal 2 in the fifth round of the FA Cup as Arsenal moved towards the club’s first major trophy. 15 February 2015: Arsenal 2 Middlesbrough 0 in the fifth …
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By Tony Attwood One bit of news before the quiz, the February file of anniversaries has been fully updated and revised with over 100 changes and updates. Work is starting on a complete revision of March now. If you spot anything amiss with the February file please do write to TonyAttwoodofLondon@gmail.com. As before, answers …
Matthew James Upson was born in Suffolk on 18 April 1979 and we were reminded of him once again following an atrocious tackle on Alexis Sanchez on 10 February 2015 in a Premier League match, while Upson was playing for Leicester. He came up through the Ipswich Academy to Luton Town for whom he played just …
David Reno Bacuzzi was born in Islington 12 October 1940 into a family that had Italian connections on his father’s side. His father became a footballer playing for Fulham and played a war time international for England. Dave was one of the first players brought into Arsenal by Ron Greenwood and he came as a trainee …
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10 stories the press probably won’t mention, and one that they might. In the build up to the Tottenham v Arsenal game on 7 February 2015 the English press has got very excited talking about the best players to play in the match, the best players in each team, and so on. Quite a contrast …
