AISA Arsenal History Society: preserving Arsenal's heritage
Day by Day: the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. Day by Day: the stories– a key moment in Arsenal and footballing history for each day of the year Arsenal in June – all the anniversaries day by day The Arsenal videos: club by club by Tony Attwood If ever there was …
by Tony Attwood Day by Day: the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. Day by Day: the stories– a key moment in Arsenal and footballing history for each day of the year Arsenal in June – all the anniversaries day by day The Arsenal videos: club by club Clive Allen was signed by …
By Tony Attwood Day by Day: the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. Day by Day: the stories– a key moment in Arsenal and footballing history for each day of the year Arsenal in June – all the anniversaries day by day The Arsenal videos: club by club The story of Arsenal’s post-first-world-war …
By Tony Attwood Day by Day: the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. Day by Day: the stories– a key moment in Arsenal and footballing history for each day of the year Arsenal in June – all the anniversaries day by day The Arsenal videos: club by club Martin Keown signed for Arsenal …
Read More “9 June: Arsenal legend told he’s not good enough to play for Arsenal.”
By Tony Attwood Day by Day: the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. Day by Day: the stories– a key moment in Arsenal and footballing history for each day of the year Arsenal in June – all the anniversaries day by day The Arsenal videos: club by club It was one of the …
Read More “8 June: Amidst Arsenal upheaval the offside rule changed”
By Tony Attwood Day by Day: the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. Day by Day: the stories– a key moment in Arsenal and footballing history for each day of the year Arsenal in June – all the anniversaries day by day The Arsenal videos: club by club On 5 June 1922 an …
Read More “5 June: A concern about dramatic rise in transfer fees”
Day by Day: the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. Day by Day: the stories– a key moment in Arsenal and footballing history for each day of the year Arsenal in June – all the anniversaries day by day The Arsenal videos: club by club On 11 May 1925 Arsenal advertised for a …
Read More “4 June: Chapman returns to England to talk about the vacancy at Arsenal”
The list of the 270+ videos we have gathered commemorating events on individual days are to be found via this link. We are also developing our video collection series in which we are gathering together the best videos we have against each club we have played in recent years – and adding some new ones to the …
Read More “30 June: the day for releasing end of contract players”
The list of the 270+ videos we have gathered commemorating events on individual days are to be found via this link. We are also developing our video collection series in which we are gathering together the best videos we have against each club we have played in recent years – and adding some new ones to the …
Read More “Players beware: don’t sign for Arsenal on 24 June!”
The 1950 world cup began on this day, and as you can read in the summary below, it was a total farce. One might have hoped that after this fiasco Fifa could have started to get things sorted out, but it seems not. At the moment of writing today’s anniversary page we find that Infantino, …
Read More “The fiasco of the 1950 world cup, and a few problems for the 2022 finals.”
By Tony Attwood This continues our history of Henry Norris at the Arsenal; there is a link to the full series at the end of this article. In the last chapter we saw Arsenal recover somewhat in the League, but then lose the FA Cup final to Cardiff. Although today it is generally assumed that …
Read More “Sir Henry Norris prepares to leave Arsenal, his job complete. May/June 1927”
The Anniversary Files Here are the Arsenal (and occasionally one or two non-Arsenal) anniversaries for today taken from the complete files of over 6000 Arsenal anniversaries which appear on the Arsenal History Society website. An index to the Anniversary files can be found in the left column of this site under “Pages” The current historical …
Read More “The one and only time Arsenal played a league match in June”
By Tony Attwood October 1922 was scheduled to be a very busy month for Arsenal with not only the regular league games but also some friendlies and London FA Cup matches also. Here is the table for the start of the month. Pos Team P W D L F A GAv Pts 1 Liverpool 8 …
Read More “October 1922: Henry Norris withdraws, Arsenal in dire straits”
By Tony Attwood 1921/2 had been a dreadful season in which Arsenal had almost gone down to Division II. A look at the final table does not really reveal the closeness of the disaster, and in reality Arsenal’s survival was as much down to the failures of Bradford City and Manchester United at the end …
By Tony Attwood This article covers the summer of 1922. There is an index to the main articles in the series covering the most controversial elements of Sir Henry Norris’ time at Arsenal at the foot of the page. The full index to the articles in this series appears on the page Henry Norris at …
by Tony Attwood On 6 May 1922, after a dismal season which included 5 consecutive defeats Arsenal rounded the league off with four wins and a draw in the last five to finish with Arsenal 1 Bradford C 0 and 17th place in the league. Here is the final table… Pos Team Pld W D …
Read More “1922: Arsenal’s end of the season tour and summary of games”
By Tony Attwood You may recall that through much of the early part of 1922 we have been reporting that Sir Henry Norris was out of the country recuperating from an illness first in Italy and then in France. In the days before antibiotics (Alexander Fleming did not discover penicillin under 1928) heading for the …
Read More “April 1922: Arsenal and Man U fight against relegation. Only one survives.”
By Tony Attwood Arsenal entered March 1922 with the League table looking rather parlous. The one hopeful bit of news was that although Manchester United had of late climbed above Arsenal, they had played two games more and had a worse goal average, so a win in one of those two games in hand would …
By Tony Attwood Arsenal’s position had recovered a little in January 1922 and the club, although still in trouble, were at least above the relegation zone. Pos Club P W D L F A GAv Pts 18 Blackburn Rovers 27 6 9 12 35 40 0.875 21 19 Birmingham City 25 9 3 13 30 …
Read More “Arsenal in Feb 1922. Norris missing, Cup success, relegation threatens, and a monkey”
By Tony Attwood 1922 saw the British Empire at its absolute height covering about a quarter of the world and ruling over a quarter of the world’s population. It grew no further. And it was a country undergoing changes. 70,000 new cars a year were being produced and the number was increasing dramatically as the …
by Tony Attwood This article updated 15 June 2018 with the addition of the London Combination table and commentary thereon. Arsenal played five games in May, the home and away league games against Liverpool and three friendly games. It was also a month in which an interview with the manager Leslie Knighton appeared in a …
Read More “May/June 1921: Knighton the fantasist. The fourth allegation.”
By Tony Attwood There is an index to this series of articles at the foot of the page. Arsenal finished the 1970s in fourth, not only eight points behind the leaders, but also with a significantly lower goal scoring rate than the clubs above. P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Liverpool 22 …
Read More “Arsenal in the 70s part 25: Jan to June 1980. Farewell Liam Brady.”
by Tony Attwood January 1979 started in the traditional fashion with an FA Cup 3rd round tie; on this occasion it was Sheffield Wednesday away on 6 January, and the result was a 1-1 draw. 33,635 were in the crowd, and the team was Jennings, Rice, Walford, Price, O’Leary, Young, Brady, Sunderland, Stapleton, Gatting, Rix. It …
Read More “Arsenal in the 70s part 23. Jan-June 79. The trophy drought is over”
By Tony Attwood Arsenal had finished the previous season with disappointment – slipping to 5th when for a while second place was on offer, and being beaten by a very poor Ipswich team in the Cup Final and losing in the semi-final of the League Cup to a dour defensive Liverpool. It was these disappointments …
Read More “Arsenal in the 70s part 22. July to Dec 1978. Surviving without Macdonald.”
. By Tony Attwood Arsenal ended the old year in fourth position in the league… P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Nottingham Forest 23 16 4 3 44 14 +30 36 2 Everton 23 12 7 4 47 27 +20 31 3 Liverpool 23 12 6 5 30 16 +14 30 4 …
