AISA Arsenal History Society: preserving Arsenal's heritage
It was quickly forgotten, as all such nonsense stories are, but Arsenal’s preparations for the Uefa Europa League final against Chelsea in Baku were reported in some of the media before the game to have been disrupted by an approach by Barcelona to recruit Unai Emery as the replacement of Ernesto Valverde as head coach. …
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Our quiz comes from today’s anniversaries, which gives a clue as to the actual date of the month – all you have to get is the year. So before you scroll down, Question 1: On this day Arsenal won their first European trophy. Who did we beat, what was the score, and how many years …
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During the first and second world wars, normal league and cup football was suspended – although the 1914/15 season was played, largely because of the view that the war would be finished by December 1914, and thus not inconvenience the Football League. There was a major campaign to get football banned, particularly supported by Sir …
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The anniversaries of 19 February do indeed remind us of the media’s constant theme: Arsenal are not good enough. They ply this line no matter what Arsenal are doing, because whatever Arsenal achieve, the media demand more, in order to keep up the negatives. Even the unbeaten season was greeted with comments that it wasn’t …
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Chuba Akpom was an Arsenal player from 2002 to 2018 during which time he made four appearances for the club but played 44 times for England at various youth levels from under 16 to under 21. Starting in 2013 he went on a series of loans to Brentford, Coventry, Nottingham Forest, Hull City, Brighton and …
Sven Mislintat joined Arsenal in November 2017 with the brief of developing the way Arsenal worked in the transfer market, and during his 14 month tenure brought in the likes of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Lucas Torreira and Matteo Guendouzi. However he fell out with the club after it was decided to sign Dennis Suarez instead of …
By Tony Attwood Arsenalisation was the term coined to symbolise the programme of turning Arsenal’s new stadium into a place that reflected Arsenal and its history. It was in relation to this that I had the opportunity to put to Ivan Gazidis the notion that there should be statues of the great symbols of Arsenal’s …
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Below are today’s anniversaries including the anniversary of the extraordinary transfer of Overmars to Barcelona, which knocked up the amazing statistic of £4m a game. You might also like to note that the Arsenal in the Summer series has itself now been updated to include seasons up to 2018 – you can find the latest …
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Publications We have a small number of copies of “Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football” and “Making the Arsenal” now available in paperback. They are also available on Kindle. Please see here for more details. The series Henry Norris at the Arsenal: There is a full index to the series here. Arsenal in …
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By Tony Attwood Today’s highlight… Some players don’t make it, we know that of course, and some do make it but fade away quickly. But few that I have seen have slipped so quickly and so far as Christopher Wreh. Signed in 1997 he scored the only goal in the cup semi-final against Wolverhampton in …
Until the publication of John Sowman’s “The Long Sleep” no one had ventured to write a proper history of Arsenal between 1953 and 1970, simply because Arsenal achieved nothing during that spell. After all the titles that had gone before, no one really saw this coming, but a series of disastrous decisions by the board …
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6 March 1905: Thomas Fitchie and Robert Templeton represent Scotland – the first Arsenal players ever to do so. 6 March 1915:Arsenal played Lincoln away, and lost 1-0 – a sure sign that there was unlikely to be any late push to regain a promotion position in the latter part of the season. It was …
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For many Arsenal fans the 1970s are remembered as a time of great triumph – the first European trophy, the first double… and indeed into this day in 1972 there was hope of an unbelievable double double – winning the double two years running. But as today’s anniversaries show the reality was not like this. …
Looking for a lost Arsenal player? See our article here. The Anniversaries … Below are the Arsenal (and for historical context, occasionally one or two non-Arsenal) anniversaries for today taken from the files of over 6000 Arsenal anniversaries which appear on the Arsenal History Society website. You will also find links to the month by month listing …
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Looking for a lost Arsenal player? See our article here. The Anniversaries … Below are the Arsenal (and for historical context, occasionally one or two non-Arsenal) anniversaries for today taken from the files of over 6000 Arsenal anniversaries which appear on the Arsenal History Society website. You will also find links to the month by month listing …
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The Arsenal Anniversary Files Latest article published by the Arsenal History Society Arsenal manager in fantasy land; bidding for Charlie Buchan. The truth revealed. Below 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. …
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The Arsenal Anniversary Files Our headline story today comes from 2000. Latest article published by the Arsenal History Society Arsenal in November 1924: transfer funds are found, recovery seems likely, rules are changed. Below are the Arsenal (and occasionally one or two non-Arsenal) anniversaries for today taken from the complete files of over 6000 Arsenal …
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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 series on this …
This is part of our regular daily series on Arsenal anniversaries Our headline comes from 1938. The latest post from our series on Henry Norris at the Arsenal October 1922: Henry Norris withdraws, Arsenal in dire straits 14 May 1894: James Crozier signed from Partick Thistle. He played just once for Woolwich Arsenal on …
The latest post from our series on Henry Norris at the Arsenal 1922: Arsenal’s end of the season overseas tour and summary of games The current series: Covering all aspects off the life and work of the man who rescued Arsenal from extinction, secured the club’s future by moving it to Highbury, and then brought in …
The anniversary files are edited by Tony Attwood. Please note that as I’m currently travelling the time at which the files appear each day may vary considerably from the norm. The latest post from our series on Henry Norris at the Arsenal Arsenal meet the king, Ireland split in two, Scotland says no. December …
The latest post from our series on Henry Norris at the Arsenal Exposing the second libel against Henry Norris: the summer of 1920. This daily review of Arsenal anniversaries is from the Arsenal day by day files prepared by the AISA Arsenal History Society. We expect by the end of this year to have approaching 6000 …
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The latest post from our series on Henry Norris at the Arsenal 1919: The first Christmas for the new expanded league Below is our daily review of Arsenal anniversaries taken from the Arsenal day by day files prepared by the AISA Arsenal History Society. We expect to add 1000 new anniversaries to our files this year. …
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The latest post from our series on Henry Norris at the Arsenal Arsenal establish themselves in the Division 1 amidst scandal, profiteering and strikes. Below is our daily review of Arsenal anniversaries taken from the Arsenal day by day files prepared by the AISA Arsenal History Society. We expect to add 1000 new anniversaries to our files …
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Here are the details of the anniversaries for 1 August for Arsenal FC. Details of how to find all of the 5000+ anniversaries in our list are shown at the end of today’s list. Also on this day – the end of legal slavery in the UK. ?August 1890 Royal Arsenal Committee representatives signed …
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