Day: 5 October 2017

By Tony Attwood In the last episodes of this series we saw how the initial war-time leagues in 1915/16 panned out, and how Henry Norris rose to the rank of Captain, taking on full time work with the War Office; a job that had him posted outside of London, and thus away from engagement with …

Read More “Arsenal at war; Tottenham move out of WHL, Arsenal hit rock bottom. June to Sept 1916.”

This is our daily review of Arsenal anniversaries taken from the Arsenal day by day  files prepared by the AISA Arsenal History Society.   Below are the Anniversaries from  October 5 Our headline stories come from this day in 1923 and 1953. Yesterday’s anniversaries are to be found at: Arsenal score six, each goal from a …

Read More “Arsenal’s floodlights turned on, and when the Minister of Finance played for Arsenal.”