AISA Arsenal History Society: preserving Arsenal's heritage
Latest news: We are developing our own video channel. It’s still at the experimental stage but you can get a feel here… Untold Gooner News Historians can’t just accept what is passed down as the truth across the generations – they need some evidence. But the reality is that most people who write about …
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Latest news: We are developing our own video channel. It’s still at the experimental stage but you can get a feel here… Untold Gooner News Can you imagine Arsenal openly criticising the FA in its match day programme? Indeed can you imagine any newspaper, TV programme or radio show openly criticising the FA? …
If one wants to take a single day to provide evidence of the constancy and depth of the media’s antagonism against Arsenal then 3 December is as good as any. On this day in 1923 Sir Henry Norris obtained a writ against the Fulham Chronicle for their personal attack on him, which contained within it, …
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In both the world wars the Football League was rearranged as a regional affair, with clubs permitted to use loan players where their own players were unable to play for their own club. In the season 1944/45 Arsenal played in the Football League South and on 12 occasions in that season used Stan Mortensen of …
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One of the great bits of fun in considering the history of any organisation is the strange coincidences that turn up. As with the fact that some 33 years apart there were two key events in the Arsenal of history that happened somewhere between 1st and 5th December. And the fact that in neither case …
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