Day: 6 November 2017

by Tony Attwood Leaving aside the awful events happening in the world around them and focusing just on football, Arsenal entered the autumn of 1917 in a good mood.  The new London Combination season had started with four wins and one defeat – the best run for Arsenal in the wartime league.  Better, they had …

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This is our daily review of Arsenal anniversaries taken from the Arsenal day by day  files prepared by the AISA Arsenal History Society. Our headline is taken from this day in 1964 Special feature: Highbury: from start to end with previously unseen pictures of the end of the stadium. Below are the Anniversaries from  November 6. 6 …

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