April 1919: the end of wartime football (at least for 20 years)

By Tony Attwood In the last article I took the story of the Victory Cup through to its conclusion, which means we now have to go back to the start of April 1919 to catch up with the rest of the Arsenal story for this month. I will however mention the key events from the …

The court case that split Arsenal in two, and established the original transfer system.

  This is our daily review of Arsenal anniversaries taken from the Arsenal day by day  files prepared by the AISA Arsenal History Society. Here are the stories from this day in history…  Our headline story comes from 4 January 1892. 4 January 1892  (Exact date uncertain, but either 4th or 5th). The court hearing in …