AISA Arsenal History Society: preserving Arsenal's heritage
Below is our selected video for this day in history, along with all the Arsenal anniversaries of interest that we can find. This is published by The Arsenal History Society, part of the Arsenal Independent Supporters Association – a body which gives positive support to the club, and has regular meetings with directors and senior officials of …
Bruce Rioch was by no means the man with the shortest spell as Arsenal manager, but most of those who have managed for a shorter period of time have done so because they were temporary appointments: James McEwen (2 games), Pat Rice (4), Freddie Ljungberg (6)… Beyond doubt the most successful of the short term …
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By Tony Attwood Each day the AISA Arsenal History Society publishes a list of Arsenal events that took place on this day throughout history – today’s list is below. But quite often as I come to publish the list for the day I find myself wondering about other Arsenal events for which I can’t find …
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The Arsenal History Society is part of the Arsenal Independent Supporters Association – a body which gives positive support to the club, and has regular meetings with directors and senior officials of the club to represent the views of its members to the club. You can read more about AISA on its website. For advertising contact Snack Media …
Read More “That eternal desire the League and FA has to stop certain people playing football”
The Arsenal History Society is part of the Arsenal Independent Supporters Association – a body which gives positive support to the club, and has regular meetings with directors and senior officials of the club to represent the views of its members to the club. You can read more about AISA on its website. You can read about …
The drive behind Henry Norris’ take over of Arsenal in 1910 was first to pay off all the debts and second to make it a profitable club, and then third to make it a club that would challenge for trophies. The first aim was met in 1910, as all the debts were honoured (including some …
Read More “On this day in 1923 Arsenal revealed its profit: £5000 for the season.”
The Arsenal History Society is part of the Arsenal Independent Supporters Association – a body which gives positive support to the club, and has regular meetings with directors and senior officials of the club to represent the views of its members to the club. You can read more about AISA on its website. For advertising contact Snack Media …
Read More “How clubs spend crazy money on players that don’t get games”
The Arsenal History Society is part of the Arsenal Independent Supporters Association – a body which gives positive support to the club, and has regular meetings with directors and senior officials of the club to represent the views of its members to the club. You can read more about AISA on its website. Below you will find …
The media eternally aim to persuade us that they simply report the news, but of course they always do so with a slant. For the mere selection of one item as news and another as not worth reporting itself results in bias. Yet just occasionally they are caught out, as in 1982 when the Italian …
It is interesting how the commentaries of writers in past years are so often taken as being documentary proof of what happened, when in fact those who write about football in the past, often end up taking just one writer as their source of evidence. In other historical contexts this doesn’t happen, as researchers seek …
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When the wonderful Dennis Bergkamp arrived on this day in 1995 he obviously had no notion what was going to happen. His life in Italy had been miserable, as the media had regularly made fun on him and his alleged inability to get through a match without making a howler. In his first season at …
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The event Normally I drop straight into a review of the anniversaries, but something a little different today as the Arsenal Independent Supporters Association (AISA) is inviting all its members to an audience with Mark Pougatch. Mark Pougatch, the TV and radio football broadcast journalist is also an Arsenal fan, and has agreed to join …
Read More “An audience with Mark Pougatch – live, plus today’s anniversaries”
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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This is the anniversary of Mr Wenger’s last home match with Arsenal, and it was of course heavily featured by the BBC as they focussed on the only Arsenal manager ever to win three League titles, and not only the man who won more FA Cups with Arsenal than any other manager, but who won …
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The most recent news we have of Tomas Rosický became comes from 2018. In January he became assistant to the new Sparta sport director Zdeněk Ščasný. Then on 17 December he replaced Ščasný as a sports director, soon after Ščasný became Sparta head coach. In Germany, as a player he gained the nickname “The Little …
On this day in 2013 Theo Walcott signed a new long term contract as his star continued to rise in Arsenal colours. And although he had some brilliant moments with Arsenal, it was two years ago yesterday that Walcott signed a three-and-a-half-year contract with Everton in what the BBC reported as “a deal worth more …
In 29 April 2019 a number of newspapers announced that “For years, the founder of Arsenal FC was buried in an unmarked grave in Coventry,” but that now that was finally put right when the man behind one of the world’s greatest football clubs was finally given the resting place he deserves.” That man was David …
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Latest news: Our companion website Untold Arsenal is developing its own video channel commenting on both contemporary and historic events. It’s still at the experimental stage but you can get a feel here… Untold Gooner News And today is of course a very historic day, being the day on which in 1886 the first …
Read More “The anniversary of the very start of Arsenal, and how we proved it happened.”
Latest news: We are developing our own video channel. It’s still at the experimental stage but you can get a feel here… Untold Gooner News Historians can’t just accept what is passed down as the truth across the generations – they need some evidence. But the reality is that most people who write about …
Read More “Finding the elusive Eastern Wanderers, Arsenal’s first opponents”
On this day in 1918 Sir Henry Norris, chair of Arsenal and a director of Fulham FC, began his campaign to become an MP – during the course of which one of his opponents put out a leaflet that criticised Sir Henry saying that while Sir Henry had claimed to be in favour of the …
Read More “Freedom of contract and limits on transfer fees: a court discussion in 1918.”
25 mins: Henry’s side-footer gives Arsenal the lead 33 mins: Inter equalise after Vieri’s shot is deflected past Lehmann 49 mins: Ljungberg puts Arsenal back in front from Henry’s cross 81 mins: Henry’s solo special gives them a two-goal cushion 87 mins: Arsenal pile forward and Edu slots home the fourth 89 mins: Pires wraps things up by slotting in the …
Read More “The anniversary of one of the great, great nights of the Wenger years.”
I can’t help thinking that the name of Reg Stockill should be commemorated by Arsenal even though he only played seven games for us. But in those seven games he scored four goals, which is not bad going, including a goal that ought to be symbolic to the club – although it isn’t. For Reg …
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by Tony Attwood In studying the life and times of Sir Henry Norris, the man who rescued Arsenal in 1910 and became its chairman, we find a man who would work hard, give generously of his time and money, but not suffer fools gladly. And looking back from nearly 100 years on we find that …
It is probably Bernard Joy’s negative comments upon George Allison, that has ensured that Allison has never received much recognition as one of the great Arsenal managers – despite the fact that he kept the club alive in the second world war virtually single handed, and won the same number of trophies as Whittaker and …
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By Tony Attwood Arsenal’s motto “Victoria Concordia Crescit” was used in the club programme on this day for the first time in 1913, as part of generating a new spirit of togetherness in the club’s first months at Highbury. It translates as Victory through Harmony, and it is impossible to believe that many of the …
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