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The Arsenal Anniversary Files Arsenal are notorious for re-writing its own history, often getting much of the past wrong and the Arsenal handbook published on this day in 1968 was no exception. Details below. Latest article published by the Arsenal History Society Arsenal in March 1925: The run of consecutive defeats ends, but recovery is …
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The Arsenal Anniversary Files Note about today: I don’t normally do lots of crowing about our ability to predict who will be a great player for Arsenal, mostly because most of the time we are wrong. Latest article published by the Arsenal History Society Arsenal in March 1925: The run of consecutive defeats ends, …
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This is part of our series on Henry Norris at the Arsenal. Details of the series are given at the end of the article. The previous article in the series was Experimenting with the offside law as Arsenal lose 6 in a row, scoring just 2. By Tony Attwood Arsenal entered March 1925 having lost six …
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The Arsenal Anniversary Files Note about today: I don’t normally do lots of crowing about our ability to predict who will be a great player for Arsenal, mostly because most of the time we are wrong. Latest article published by the Arsenal History Society Experimenting with the offside law as Arsenal lose 6 in a …
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The Arsenal Anniversary Files Note about today: I don’t normally do lots of crowing about our ability to predict who will be a great player for Arsenal, mostly because most of the time we are wrong. Latest article published by the Arsenal History Society Experimenting with the offside law as Arsenal lose 6 in a …
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The Arsenal Anniversary Files Note about today: I don’t normally do lots of crowing about our ability to predict who will be a great player for Arsenal, mostly because most of the time we are wrong. Latest article published by the Arsenal History Society Experimenting with the offside law as Arsenal lose 6 in a …
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The Arsenal Anniversary Files Note about today: I don’t normally do lots of crowing about our ability to predict who will be a great player for Arsenal, mostly because most of the time we are wrong. Latest article published by the Arsenal History Society Below are the Arsenal (and occasionally one or two non-Arsenal) …
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By Tony Attwood As I have reported through this series, as the debts of Arsenal were gradually paid off Sir Henry Norris had begun looking into the possibility of buying the land on which the Highbury ground was situated, and which was currently leased, and on 2 February 1925 Athletic News, undoubtedly after a conversation …
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The Arsenal Anniversary Files Note about today: I don’t normally do lots of crowing about our ability to predict who will be a great player for Arsenal, mostly because most of the time we are wrong. Latest article published by the Arsenal History Society Managerial fantasies about West Ham, as a deep rot sets in. …
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The Arsenal Anniversary Files Latest article published by the Arsenal History Society Managerial fantasies about West Ham, as a deep rot sets in. Arsenal in January 1925. 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 …
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The Arsenal Anniversary Files Latest article published by the Arsenal History Society Managerial fantasies about West Ham, as a deep rot sets in. Arsenal in January 1925. 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 …
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The Arsenal Anniversary Files Latest article published by the Arsenal History Society Managerial fantasies about West Ham, as a deep rot sets in. Arsenal in January 1925. 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 …
By Tony Attwood Updated 4 August to correct fact that WHU were a second division team when they reached the cup final, and note that the strangeness of the lack of contemporary leaks about the drugs tale. 1925 – a monumental year in the history of Arsenal, (and indeed in terms of rule changes, football …
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The Arsenal Anniversary Files Latest article published by the Arsenal History Society Arsenal manager in fantasy land; bidding for Charlie Buchan. The truth revealed. 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. …
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The Arsenal Anniversary Files Latest article published by the Arsenal History Society Arsenal manager in fantasy land; bidding for Charlie Buchan. The truth revealed. 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 …
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The Arsenal Anniversary Files Latest article published by the Arsenal History Society Arsenal manager in fantasy land; bidding for Charlie Buchan. The truth revealed. 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. …
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