Month: September 2025

  by Tony Attwood This is part of the series celebrating Arsenal’s unique achievement of 100 seasons in the top division There is an index to the whole series at the foot of the article. 100 seasons in the top division: Chapman takes AFC to the title 100 seasons in the top division: after the …

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Latest articles in this series (a full index of all the articles in the series is given in each of these articles) 100 seasons in the top division: after the cup final, the drive towards trophies Arsenal’s first cup final; Chapman’s second season In the previous edition of this series, I included a table which …

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  By Tony Attwood 2025/26 represents the 100th consecutive season of Arsenal in the top division of English football.  Arsenal joined the top league (Division One as it then was) for the 1919/20 season when football resumed after the First World War.   It was then suggested, some 25 years later, as part of the promotion …

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  Background This article traces Arsenal’s 1926/27 season – the second season with Chapman as manager.   In the previous season, Arsenal had defied all logic and risen from being relegation candidates under the previous manager Knighton, to contenders for the title. By Tony Attwood What was it like to return to Highbury on 28 August …

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    By Tony Attwood A list of the previous articles in this series, which celebrates Arsenal’s 100 seasons in the top division, can be found at the end of the article —————– Herbert Chapman’s first match in charge of Arsenal on 29 August 1925, after his surprise move to the club earlier in the …

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