He came, he saw, he played three friendlies, he left. Clive Allen at Arsenal

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Chapman and Brady: joining the club 46 years apart.

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Anticipation a plenty but another terrible start to the season: August 1923

  By Tony Attwood Arsenal’s first league match of the 1923/4 season was to be played on 25 August and there were two pre-season friendlies (I suspect the Reds against the Blues or First Team against the Reserves, as normal) on the two Saturdays prior to the kick off. And so, probably in common with …

Arsenal anniversaries and the most curious case of Park Chu Young

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George Graham’s greatest mistake

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Arsenal fined for playing a weakened team

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The one and only time Arsenal played a league match in June

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When Henry Norris became the first chairman of Fulham FC.

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Farewell our Russian genius who never quite clicked

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Arsenal in the Summer 1923: another Knighton allegation but the evidence is against him.

By Tony Attwood As with other Arsenal in the summer articles, rather than stick to the exact chronology of events I am going to work through a few themes and stories, which will bend the chronology slightly.  And to begin this Arsenal in the summer meander I’ll consider the tale of Jock Rutherford’s summer. By …

The Arsenal man who single handedly raised 3 brigades in the 1st world war.

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Goalkeepers’ Day. Manninger arrives, Seaman and Lehmann depart. The Arsenal anniversaries

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When penalties were invented, Arsenal were fined and Cole was fined.

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The first Arsenal player to captain Brazil

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