AISA Arsenal History Society: preserving Arsenal's heritage
By Tony Attwood It is interesting I think to compare the 20 years of Arsene Wenger at Arsenal with the previous 20 years. Of course in any statistics a cut off point in the measurement can change the way the numbers work – for example by working on 20 years we avoid 1975/76 when Arsenal …
Read More “Just how does Mr Wenger’s 20 years compare with the 20 years before him?”
By Tony Attwood Arsenal had finished the previous season with disappointment – slipping to 5th when for a while second place was on offer, and being beaten by a very poor Ipswich team in the Cup Final and losing in the semi-final of the League Cup to a dour defensive Liverpool. It was these disappointments …
Read More “Arsenal in the 70s part 22. July to Dec 1978. Surviving without Macdonald.”
. By Tony Attwood Arsenal ended the old year in fourth position in the league… P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Nottingham Forest 23 16 4 3 44 14 +30 36 2 Everton 23 12 7 4 47 27 +20 31 3 Liverpool 23 12 6 5 30 16 +14 30 4 …
Joe Mercer: The Arsenal Manager Who Never Was By John Sowman When Arsenal captain Joe Mercer broke his leg in two places following an accidental collision with colleague Joe Wade at Highbury on 10th April 1954, most people associated with the sport assumed that he would remain in football, probably in a managerial capacity. …
This article appears on the History Site, because Untold Arsenal is still down. Apologies for that – we hope to be back up soon. By Tony Attwood I thought we had seen the end of this type of refereeing back in the 1970s with the appalling Don Revie side, whose activities were so outrageous that …
By Tony Attwood Between 1893 (when Arsenal entered the Football League) and 1930 (when Arsenal won their first major trophy – the FA Cup) was a period of 36 trophyless years. During that spell Arsenal reached one FA Cup Final, came second in the First Divison on one occasion, and were defeated in two Cup …
Read More “To understand Arsenal’s success we also need to understand what led up to the success.”
By Tony Attwood 1977 had seen the most unwelcome of records for Arsenal as on 12 February 1977 the result Man C 1 Arsenal 0 was not just the fourth consecutive game without a win, but also the first of seven consecutive defeats in the league – the worst ever run of defeats, beating the six “achieved” under …
Read More “Arsenal in the 70s Part 20: July to Dec 1977 – signs of recovery.”
By Tony Attwood Updated 8 Feb with end of season friendlies added. Arsenal ended 1976 in sixth place, seven points behind the league leaders with three games in hand. They began the new year at home to the much disliked Leeds United on 3 January 1977 in a match in which Alan Hudson, the man who quite …
