Month: March 2020

Willie Young played 170 games for Arsenal and scored 11 goals, before moving on to Nottingham Forest for whom he played 59 times.   After that the injuries began to catch up with him, and his spells with Norwich City, Brighton and Hove and Darlington resulted only in a handful of games in each case. After …

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Ian Allinson originally played for Colchester, and would have stayed there had it not been for the fact that the club offered him a contract worth less than his previous contract, meaning he could, if he wished, leave on a free transfer.  Arsenal made him an offer and he took it in 1983. He went …

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Arsenal only ever played two wartime games on 3 March, one in 1917 and the other on this day in 1945, both against Clapton Orient. Both were won by Arsenal 3-1, both being played in the Football League Cup South. Despite losing 2-4 to Portsmouth in this competition in the sixth game in 1945, Arsenal …

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Marouane Chamakh played just 40 games for Arsenal before a short loan period with West Ham, and then a three year spell with Crystal Palace where he played 60 games.  He concluded his playing career in 2016 with two games for Cardiff.   He then had a couple of years without playing at all before formally …

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By Tony Attwood David Court played 168 league games for Arsenal and scored 17 goals but in 1969/70 he was injured and so missed out on the Fairs Cup final games and in the summer after that season – just as Arsenal were going to hit it bigger than big, he was transferred to Luton. …

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