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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 …
Latest article from the current series: Henry Norris at the Arsenal Summer 1927: Sir Henry Norris leaves the Arsenal Special features Highbury: from start to end with previously unseen pictures of the end of the stadium. Meeting a player you have admired can be such a very strange experience.: Brian Talbot comes to the Arsenal Independent Supporters …
Read More “The newspaper tells Arsenal fans, “Abuse of officials and players is not argument.””
Latest article from the current series: Henry Norris at the Arsenal Summer 1927: Sir Henry Norris leaves the Arsenal Special features Highbury: from start to end with previously unseen pictures of the end of the stadium. Meeting a player you have admired can be such a very strange experience.: Brian Talbot comes to the Arsenal Independent Supporters …
Read More “Losing 0-5 to Tottenham and 2-4 at home to Charlton, and winning the double”
Below are the anniversaries of Arsenal for 19 April The full index to what is on this site is here. The latest article on Henry Norris at the Arsenal is… March 1922: Desperate times for Arsenal, Norris returns and another allegation overturned The current series: Covering all aspects off the life and work of the …
Read More “The Arsenal man who sued Arsenal, and when the club had debts of £5000”
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 The first north London derbies, Knighton gets another star; Highbury’s top crowd: …
Read More “5 without a win, 6 without a win (twice), 7 without a win. Oh Arsenal!!!”
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 …
Read More “Six defeats in a row, Arsenal concede 27 goals. But who was the manager?”
The latest post from our series on Henry Norris at the Arsenal October 1919: Chapman banned for life, Leeds kicked out, Whittaker joins 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 is our daily review of Arsenal anniversaries taken from the Arsenal day by day files prepared by the AISA Arsenal History Society. Our headline is taken from this day in 1932 Special feature: Highbury: from start to end with previously unseen pictures of the end of the stadium. Below are the Anniversaries from November 5. …
Read More “New name agreed for Arsenal station, but no game in sight.”
This is our daily review of Arsenal anniversaries taken from the Arsenal day by day files prepared by the AISA Arsenal History Society. Our headline is taken from this day in 2001 Special feature: Highbury: from start to end with previously unseen pictures of the end of the stadium. Below are the Anniversaries from November 4. …
Read More “Arsenal’s worst home league defeat under Wenger. But look at what then happened.”
Last update 8 Jan 2019 This is the first half of our A to Z index of every player to have played for Arsenal in a league match, along with some others of note, with links to the main articles on this site about them. You can Part 2 of the list here. Please note …
By John Sowman Browsing through some old Arsenal programmes recently I came across one from the all-time classic encounter with Manchester United at Highbury on February 1st 1958. This of course was the epic 4-5 defeat to a team destined to be struck by tragedy at Munich airport less than a week later. Further …
Read More “David Herd. The first of a trio of Arsenal star No 9s to be lured to Old Trafford”
Laurie Brown – one of the few players who played for Arsenal and Tottenham, and indeed surely the only player who signed for Tottenham from Arsenal and then played for Tottenham against Arsenal the next day. Plus a player who played in two of the most memorable Arsenal – Tottenham matches of the 1960s. So, …
Read More “From Arsenal to playing for Tottenham v Arsenal, in one day.”
Saturday 28 February 1959 Arsenal v Manchester United – the programme The programme is shown as being Volume XL number 20 (ah those were the days when they actually kept count) and as always it started with the Voice of Arsenal. And this is how it went. (I would add that in those days they …
Read More “Injury problems as great as those ever faced by an Arsenal manager”
By Tony Attwood John MacLeod was born in Colinton Mains, Edinburgh on 23 November 1938 and was educated at St Peter’s Primary School in Morningside and St Anthony’s in Leith, He joined Hibernian the club he supported as a school boy. playing first for Edinburgh Thistle, the feeder team of Hibs. Then he went with Joe Baker …
Note: The anniversary file pages have over time been split and split again as they have grown. Please use the index at the end to find the month you want. Sources are also at the end. This file’s last major update 3 December 2020 November 1912 (exact day unknown). Henry Norris, having explored various sites …
Note: The anniversary file pages have over time been split and split again as they have grown. Please use the index at the end of the anniversary list to find the month you want. A note on sources appears at the end. This file updated 31 July 2022. 1 August 1834: Slavery was abolished …
Johnny Petts (full name John William Frederick James Petts) was born on 2 October 1938, played as a number 6 (defensive midfield, known as left half) and joined Arsenal as an apprentice in April 1954 having been with Edmonton, Middlesex and London schoolboys, He signed professional terms on 28 May 1956 and his first game in the …
Read More “Johnny Petts – report on our “missing” player updated”
Arsenal on this day in history. Note: The anniversary file pages have over time been split and split again as they have grown. Please use the index at the foot of the page to find the month you want. A note on sources also appears at the end. Last major update 20 April 2023 …
Arsenal on this day in history. The March Files. Note: The anniversary file pages have over time been split and split again as they have grown. Please use the index at the foot of the page to find the month you want. Acknowledgements and sources also appear at the end. Last major update 1 …
Blackburn 5 Arsenal 5. This was an extraordinary result, no matter which way one looks at it, and yet it is one that seems to have slipped through the reference books, and is not talked about, simply because nothing in the score is a record. Not highest number of goals, most away goals or anything. …
Arsenal on this day in history – the January files Note: The anniversary file pages have over time been split and split again as they have grown. Please use the index at the end to find the month you want. A note on sources also appears at the end. The file contained over 630 entries …
Swindin’s Darkness The Darkness is our name for that era of nine years in which Arsenal did not finish once in the top four, and failed to win the FA Cup. The managers were Swindin and Billy Wright, and this series deals with the opening of the Swindin years. There is a full index to …
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Follow us on Twitter @Untold Arsenal ———————————- “Making the Arsenal” – is available on Amazon, Arsenal on line, the Woolwich Arsenal site and in the Arsenal store. By Tony Attwood With all the arrogance that comes from feeling so clever in terms of being the guy who suggested to Ivan Gazidis that we should have …
Read More “Looks like I guessed the statues wrong, but they are still a great idea”
AISA Arsenal History and Untold Arsenal on Twitter @UntoldArsenal If you like Arsenal history with a difference you really should have a copy of Making the Arsenal – or at least give it to the fan with (almost) everything ================ David Herd, by Tony Attwood 1954 was one of Tom Whittaker’s rebuilding years. Having won …
