Month: September 2020

You can find videos for previous days by clicking the articles in the left column under Recent Posts or by clicking on the mauve headline at the top of the screen on the right, which will take you to yesterday’s selected video. Here are the anniversaries… 5 September 1882:  Hotspur Football Club formed.   While …

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Click here to watch the video of Arsenal 3 Chelsea 3 on 4 September 1996 You can find videos for previous days by clicking the articles in the left column under Recent Posts or by clicking on the mauve headline at the top of the screen on the right, which will take you to yesterday’s selected …

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Clough and Taylor had won all four of their opening matches of the season when Nottingham Forest travelled to Arsenal on 3 September 1977. You can find videos for previous days by clicking the articles in the left column under Recent Posts or by clicking on the mauve headline at the top of the screen …

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Here is the video 2 September 1666: Outbreak of the Great Fire of London. 2 September 1893: Woolwich Arsenal 2 Newcastle Utd 2.  This was the first ever league match of the club, with the goals coming from Shaw and Elliott.  Also see this report   And the original reports in the press.  Not one of  the Arsenal players this day …

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Here are the anniversaries… 1 September 1888: The first recorded pre-season friendly involving just Arsenal, in which Arsenal first team (The Probables) played the reserves (The Improbables).  A second match was arranged one week later, after which the matches against other clubs began. 1 September 1893: Kentish Mercury reported Jack Humble, the Woolwich Arsenal chairman, had …

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