Commemorating the passing of Sir Henry Norris, without whom there would be no Arsenal

  The Arsenal Anniversary Files Our headline story today comes from 1934; today we mark the 84th anniversary of the death of Sir Henry Norris, the man who rescued Arsenal in 1910, moved the club to Highbury and built the new ground, steadied the club’s shaky finances, and finally brought in Herbert Chapman to revolutionize …

Arsenal manager in fantasy land; bidding for Charlie Buchan. The truth revealed.

By Tony Attwood This is the story of Arsenal in December 1924.  One of the strangest of all the strange fantasy tales of Leslie Knighton, the Arsenal manager from 1919 to 1925. After a far better than normal start to the 1924/5 season Arsenal had, as the months had worn on, shown, in a series …