January 2019 – The History of Arsenal

Beating Tottenham at WHL 4-1 with just nine men.

Posted on 31 January 2019 by Tony Attwood

The Anniversaries … Below are the Arsenal (and for historical context, occasionally one or two non-Arsenal) anniversaries for today taken from the files of over 6000 Arsenal anniversaries which appear on the Arsenal History Society website. You will also find links to the month by month listing of anniversaries in the right hand column of this …

The only time Arsenal lost an FA Cup tie at Highbury to 3rd tier team

Posted on 30 January 2019 by Tony Attwood

Looking for a lost Arsenal player? See our article here. The Anniversaries … Below are the Arsenal (and for historical context, occasionally one or two non-Arsenal) anniversaries for today taken from the files of over 6000 Arsenal anniversaries which appear on the Arsenal History Society website. You will also find links to the month by month listing …

Arsenal’s lost players: J Radford (around 1913) and Herbert Watson (1936)

Posted on 29 January 201928 January 2019 by Tony Attwood

By Tony Attwood I recently published a little piece on Looking for Arsenal Players as we regularly get emails from readers looking for information about relatives who may have played for Arsenal. So what I thought I would do when I get such requests for information is this. I’ll put them up as an …

Arsenal turn down the chance to have a new manager.

Posted on 29 January 2019 by Tony Attwood

Winning 6-0, 5-0 and 9-1. All on this day

Posted on 28 January 2019 by Tony Attwood

Below are the anniversaries of Arsenal FC from 28 January. A full index of all the anniversaries for the month can be found here. 28 January 1888: Royal Arsenal 6 Champion Hill 0. There’s no record of Champion Hill FC, although Dulwich Hamlet moved to the Champion Hill ground in Southwark in 1912. …

Arsenal play Bristol City, hardly have a shot, and lose.

Posted on 27 January 201926 January 2019 by Tony Attwood

Arsenal beaten by York City, and the start of TV…

Posted on 26 January 2019 by Tony Attwood

When Rangers reserve team coach became manager of Arsenal

Posted on 25 January 201924 January 2019 by Tony Attwood

Arsenal’s financial mess: a rescue plan appears

Posted on 24 January 2019 by Tony Attwood

Even Chapman couldn’t stop Arsenal being defeated by lesser teams

Posted on 23 January 2019 by Tony Attwood

Arsenal beaten 5-1 by Tottenham, and why it didn’t matter a jot.

Posted on 22 January 2019 by Tony Attwood

Out of the cup and 9th in the League. Not every January in the 1930s was perfection.

Posted on 21 January 201920 January 2019 by Tony Attwood

Going 2 down to Bolton but then going top of the League

Posted on 20 January 2019 by Tony Attwood

Looking for Arsenal player Harold Watson – and other lost players

Posted on 20 January 2019 by Tony Attwood

By Tony Attwood We regularly get emails from readers looking for information about relatives who may have played for Arsenal. While the list of players who played for the club is published in several places (Wiki has a list, and we have a list with links to articles on this site (Arsenal players A-K and …

Chapman’s birthday, Graham’s almost and being “once great”

Posted on 19 January 201918 January 2019 by Tony Attwood

Beating Manchester City by conceding possession

Posted on 18 January 2019 by Tony Attwood

The Anniversaries … 2015: One of many matches in which Mr Wenger refused to play his team the way his critics claimed he always played. Details below. Below are the Arsenal (and for historical context, occasionally one or two non-Arsenal) anniversaries for today taken from the files of over 6000 Arsenal anniversaries which appear on …

“You need masochistic tendencies to enjoy Arsenal these days.”

Posted on 17 January 2019 by Tony Attwood

The Anniversaries … 1976: Arsenal were in a bad way, and the press were full of “Boring Boring Arsenal” stories. Our headline today comes from the Daily Mirror on this date 42 years ago. Below are the Arsenal (and for historical context, occasionally one or two non-Arsenal) anniversaries for today taken from the files of …

The man who played over 100 times for Arsenal but never quite made it

Posted on 16 January 2019 by Tony Attwood

The Anniversaries … 1988: the birth of an Arsenal man who made over 100 appearances for the club but never quite made it. Below are the Arsenal (and for historical context, occasionally one or two non-Arsenal) anniversaries for today taken from the files of over 6000 Arsenal anniversaries which appear on the Arsenal History Society website. …

How a single newspaper comment can be the basis of received wisdom

Posted on 15 January 2019 by Tony Attwood

The Anniversaries … 15 January 1891: the day one local newspaper reported on a bad journey to Arsenal. That one set of comments became repeated and repeated until it was generally assumed that it was by and large impossible to get from central London to Plumstead. Below are the Arsenal (and for historical context, occasionally …

Drawing with Port Vale, losing to Walsall and drugging the team before the game.

Posted on 14 January 2019 by Tony Attwood

The Anniversaries … 14 January: the day we drew with Port Vale before going on to do the Double (1998), the day Chapman’s Arsenal lost to Walsall (1933 – and it is worth reading the match report to see what conditions were like) and played WHU in 1925 as part of the notorious drugs’ scandal. …

Month: January 2019