July 2018 – Page 2 – The History of Arsenal

Arsenal in the spring of 1924. Relegation is avoided; Chapman wins the League

Posted on 10 July 201814 July 2018 by Tony Attwood

By Tony Attwood Before we jump into the football allow me to take you back to the source of Sir Henry Norris’ fortune: property development. His company had built much of Fulham, working on the tried and tested approach that continued at least until the latter part of the 20th century, of building blocks of …

The signings of Platt and Alexis Sanchez, the leaving of Wrighty

Posted on 10 July 2018 by Tony Attwood

The Arsenal Anniversary Files Below are the Arsenal (and occasionally one or two non-Arsenal) anniversaries for today taken from the complete files of over 6000 Arsenal anniversaries which appear on the Arsenal History Society website. An index to the Anniversary files can be found in the left column of this site under “Pages” The current …

When the Tottenham manager became the Arsenal manager

Posted on 9 July 2018 by Tony Attwood

Farewell Court, Howe, Rostrom, Campbell. Hello O’Leary, Limpar, Cygan, 2nd double

Posted on 8 July 2018 by Tony Attwood

Arsenal make the best value transfer “of the last ten years”

Posted on 7 July 2018 by Tony Attwood

Arsenal closer and closer to relegation but Ramsay comes to the rescue

Posted on 6 July 20186 July 2018 by Tony Attwood

By Tony Attwood As we approached March 1924 in the last article Arsenal were being saved from relegation only by the fact that there were two teams having even worse runs than the Reds. Here’s the foot of the table at the start of the month. Pos Club P W D L F A G.Av Pts …

6 July – the day Arsenal’s history (almost) stopped

Posted on 6 July 20186 July 2018 by Tony Attwood

The Arsenal Anniversary Files 6 July: one of the days that almost defeats me in terms of finding Arsenal’s anniversaries. In fact I can only find two actual real anniversaries – a third is a date which is used to help trace what Henry Norris was up to during the first world war. Obviously July …

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Month: July 2018

Arsenal in the spring of 1924. Relegation is avoided; Chapman wins the League

The signings of Platt and Alexis Sanchez, the leaving of Wrighty

When the Tottenham manager became the Arsenal manager

Farewell Court, Howe, Rostrom, Campbell. Hello O’Leary, Limpar, Cygan, 2nd double

Arsenal make the best value transfer “of the last ten years”

Arsenal closer and closer to relegation but Ramsay comes to the rescue

6 July – the day Arsenal’s history (almost) stopped

Having said no for years and years the League finally said numbered shirts were ok

The man who was leaving Arsenal daily for two solid years, but never did.

18 years ago today one of our greatest ever players signed for just £6m

Arsenal propose the salary cap

Farewell Dixon, Adams, Flamini, Sanogo, McCullough, Anderson, Richardson