AISA Arsenal History Society: preserving Arsenal's heritage
On this day in 1998 David Platt was released from his Arsenal contract. Twenty years on, as you will see below he became a consultant for U.S. Città di Palermo of Italy’s Serie B. Looking at the anniversaries for this day I thought I’d see what happened to that club and perhaps what happened to …
Read More “David Platt after Arsenal, and his Italian adventure.”
Football anniversaries are few and far between in July, but even so we have still found two transfers, an appointment of an ex-Arsenal player as manager of Derby County and the date on which Henry Norris made a speech. The latter point, while seemingly of little interest to anyone, is one of those bits of …
Read More “Why every scrap of evidence is vital for the football historian.”
The media eternally aim to persuade us that they simply report the news, but of course they always do so with a slant. For the mere selection of one item as news and another as not worth reporting itself results in bias. Yet just occasionally they are caught out, as in 1982 when the Italian …
The Arsenal History Society is part of Arsenal Independent Supporters Association, a group which is recognised by the club. You can find out more about AISA from its website The History Society also has its own website (which you are currently reading) which contains numerous articles and series which explore Arsenal’s history and correct the …
When the first world war broke out on 28 July 1914, there was little thought of forcing the Football League to abandon the forthcoming season. There was no precedent for this, and besides the general view was that the whole affair would be over by Christmas. As a result the 1914/15 season kicked off on …
Read More “When the government forced the League to stop playing games”
A salary cap is what was proposed by Ivan Gazidis on this day in 2009, but it was turned down the the Premier League clubs. Had it been accepted the explosion of expenditure by Chelsea would have been kept under control as would that subsequently at Manchester City. It is also likely that the availability …
Most reports on Henry Norris, the Arsenal owner from 1910 to 1927, suggest he was a man of dubious character, fixing matches, not allowing his managers to manage, and most of all corruptly organising Arsenal’s election into the first division in 1919. We’ve shown in great detail on this site that all these things were …
