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Here are the Anniversaries from 9 August – part of our regular daily look at Arsenal’s history. Details of the whole list of 5000 Arsenal anniversaries and other activities undertaken by the Arsenal History Society are at the end of today’s list. 9 August 1914:  Joe Mercer born.  He first played for Ellesmere Port Town before going …

Read More “The birth and death of Joe Mercer & the 2nd Double Season starts with a draw.”

Here are the Anniversaries from 7 August – part of our regular daily look at Arsenal’s history.  You might also be interested in our in-depth analysis of the first days at Highbury which continues with When Highbury opened, and “Victoria Concordia Crescit” was introduced Details of the whole list of 5000 Arsenal anniversaries and other activities …

Read More “The day we signed Henry, Gilberto and Santi Cazorla. Arsenal anniversaries, 7 August.”

By Tony Attwood Robert Pirès arrival was surely the transfer to note in the 2000 pre-season period, joining on 3 July, while Sylvain Wiltord joined at the end of the transfer window.  Nigel Winterburn, Marc Overmars and Manu Petit all moved on. Arsenal opened with the usual couple of low key warm ups in the pre-season starting with …

Read More “2000: The big transfers and pre-season games”

By Tony Attwood The pre-season gathering of the players together was disrupted by world cup call ups so many of the preliminary games of the summer of 1998 gave the lesser known players a chance to shine.  David Grondin and Nelson Vivas were the players to join us before the pre-season games began.   (Fredrik …

Read More “1998: The Pre-season games. Back to sausages after the caviar.”

By Tony Attwood The season 1999/2000 started with some high hopes after 1998/9.  Arsenal had finished second, just one point behind Man U, who had won the Double, beating Arsenal 2-1 after extra time in the FA Cup semi-final.  A return to the 1997/8 style and pomp could be hoped for especially as Arsenal had …

Read More “Pre-season friendlies in days of yore: Arsenal prepare for 1999/2000”

The list of anniversaries on 14 May is a strange bunch…  I was mentioning the question of what happened in May 1910 when the club went to the very edge, and that crops up again here as the first time on the list. Famous names appear too – Mel Charles, Alex Forbes, Bill Dodgin, Don …

Read More “14 May – a busy day in Arsenal’s history”

1997/8 was Arsène Wenger’s first complete season at Arsenal, and as everyone will know, he set himself an impossibly high bar to measure up to thereafter by giving us a Double.   It was our first championship in seven years, the first league/cup double since 1970/1 (only our second in fact although George Graham got …

Read More “The 1997/8 Cup victory”

What do we remember of Ian Wright? Ian Edward Wright, MBE was born 3 November 1963 in Woolwich – a propitious start for an Arsenal player. He started out with Greenwich Borough and then having been spotted was invited to have a trial at Crystal Palace who signed him in August 1985, when he was …

Read More “Ian Wright, angry man, comedy jester”

By Tony Attwood Arsenal FC has a long history of supposed fans turning against their own players – a history that goes back to the 19th century.  Indeed much of this early Anti-Arsenal Arsenal activity is discussed in The Crowd at Woolwich Arsenal FC: a volume which considers in detail the crowd’s behaviour at the …

Read More “December 13: when Arsenal fans turned against Arsenal – the start of the modern era”

By Tony Attwood Scoring five or more in the Premier League  is something that Mr Wenger does rather well (and certainly better than any other manager in our history). This season has seen the number of games in which we have scored five or more continue to rise – with three occasions so far with …

Read More “Under Mr Wenger we score five goals once every 20 league games.”