Arsenal in the summer of 1918. The new league planned as the end of the war approaches.

By Tony Attwood May 1918 saw the end of the third wartime football season which we have covered in previous articles.  Arsenal ended up fifth in the ten team league, and after a very healthy start the level of the crowds had fallen significantly. But then football was hardly a major issue during that part …

When the entire Arsenal squad was almost wiped out in a plane crash

This is our daily review of Arsenal anniversaries taken from the Arsenal day by day  files prepared by the AISA Arsenal History Society.  I am sorry the service is intermittent at the moment, as I am in Cyprus rather than England, but I will try and get some days’ anniversaries up while I am absent. Our …