AISA Arsenal History Society: preserving Arsenal's heritage
Below are the anniversaries of Arsenal for 24 March. The headline story comes from 2012. The full index to what is on this site is here. The latest article on Henry Norris is May/June 1921: Knighton the fantasist. The fourth allegation. The next episode, with further revelations about Leslie Knighton, the man who sought to …
Here are the anniversaries of Arsenal for 12 March. Our headline story comes from 12 March 2012 The full index to what is on this site is here. Meanwhile, the latest episode in our series of articles about Henry Norris at the Arsenal is now published: The 3rd Knighton allegation against Norris: did he …
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The anniversary files are edited by Tony Attwood The latest post from our series on Henry Norris at the Arsenal Arsenal hire a music hall star as their new centre forward. October 1920 Today’s headline story comes from 1927 26 February 1887: After a goal total of 39 goals in their first seven …
The latest post from our series on Henry Norris at the Arsenal The FA thanks Norris, the League expanded again. May 1920. Today’s headline is taken from this day in 1910. 15 February 1890 Arsenal played Chatham away and won 5-0 en route to winning Kent Senior Cup for the one and only …
Read More “When the media recognised that referees were either inept or cheating”
The latest post from our series on Henry Norris at the Arsenal April 1920 Arsenal gain mid-table security in their first season back. Below is our daily review of anniversaries on this day in Arsenal’s history (with the odd bit of historical context on occasion as well). Our headline comes from 1907. 12 February …
Read More “An explosion at Arsenal’s stadium wrecks the catering facilities”
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 …
Read More “When the BBC used a rugby expert to commentate on Arsenal”
This is our daily review of Arsenal anniversaries taken from the Arsenal day by day files prepared by the AISA Arsenal History Society. Here are the stories from this day in history… 1 January 1896: Hastings 0 Arsenal 12. Arsenal played 29 friendlies in the course of the season in addition to their 30 league games, …
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 1886 Here are the stories from this day in history… 6 December 1885.Angus McKinnon, was born in Paisley. He played with the junior league team Petershill in the …
Read More “When Arsenal wrote to an unknown team and said “Would you like to play us?””
This is our daily review of Arsenal anniversaries taken from the Arsenal day by day files prepared by the AISA Arsenal History Society. I am sorry the service is intermittent at the moment, as I am in Cyprus rather than England, but I will try and get some days’ anniversaries up while I am absent. …
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 1977 Special feature: Highbury: from start to end with previously unseen pictures of the end of the stadium. Below are the Anniversaries from November 2. …
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 1973 Special feature: Highbury: from start to end with previously unseen pictures of the end of the stadium. Below are the Anniversaries from October 29. 29 October 1892: Royal …
Read More “Journalists berate bi-lingual Arsenal player for speaking poor English!”
Introductory notes (the listings start below) You can find the player details for part 1 (A to K) here. This is the second half what will become a complete A to Z index of every player to have played for Arsenal in a league match, along with some others, with links to the main articles …
John East Hawley is one of those players who when he gets mentioned in reports linking him with Arsenal is described as one of the men who never really made it in an Arsenal shirt. Such an attitude, in my opinion, is mistaken – he was brought to Arsenal by a management that was in desperation, …
Read More “John Hawley: a life saver who played for Arsenal at a most difficult time”
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 …
By Tony Attwood The 1981/2 season ended fairly poorly. There was hope that in Stewart Robson Arsenal had found another talented youngster after he appeared on 2 January 1982 when he became Arsenal’s youngest FA Cup player. Unfortunately the match ended Tottenham 1 Arsenal 0 in the FA Cup 3rd round and I think the …
Read More “1982: Arsenal try to get beyond one goal a game.”
By Tony Attwood Oh the horrors of being an Arsenal supporter in the early 1980s! 1982/3 was part of the era of Liverpool dominance – they won the European Cup, League Cup and the First Division. It was also the era in which all players who qualified to play for England played in England. And …
Read More “1983 pre season: the horrors of being an Arsenal supporter”
By Tony Attwood Despite the doom and gloom surrounding football in relation to falling attendances and press hysteria over hooliganism (which certainly existed as next season showed, but which was not as rampant throughout the game as the press made out) there was optimism at Arsenal that the club might at last have a team …
Read More “1984 pre-season: real hope but Arsenal fade away.”
By Tony Attwood This article continues our series on pre-seasons. There is an index to all the articles at the end. 1985 was football in crisis – at least according to the media – and in one major instance because of the media. Millwall fans created some havoc at Kenilworth Road, which led to highly …
Read More “1985 pre-season: it was most certainly not the best of times”
By Tony Attwood On 22 March 1986 after reports circulated that the board were seeking to appoint Barcelona manager Terry Venables in his place. Don Howe resigned as manager 10 years to the day after Bertie Mee had resigned. Steve Burtenshaw took over. Normally of course managers walk out or are sacked when things are going badly …
Read More “1986: George Graham’s first pre-season. A slow start indeed.”
By Tony Attwood 1945/6 was a strange season. The wartime leagues continued as before, for although the war was over, too many players were still away from their clubs in the armed forces. But the FA Cup came back after its wartime suspension, and for one season only, it was played on a home and …
Read More “When Cup matches continued until there was a result! 1945/6 and today’s anniversaries”
By Tony Attwood When the real success started for Arsenal with the FA Cup victory in 1930, football in England was dominated by a group of regular cup and league winners. The subsequent turnaround for football in general and Arsenal in particular was extraordinary. In the post-first-world-war era before Arsenal’s first triumph in 1930, the …
Read More “The Arsenal Dynasty: 1930 to 1956, and 8th June anniversaries”
Below I have selected about 30 Aston Villa related events from history – mostly matches between Arsenal and Aston Villa, but also including a couple of introductory notes that I think are of historical interest. Hope you find it fun. Tony. ———————————– 2 March 1888: Aston Villa write to five other clubs to propose the …
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Ian James Robert Allinson was born 1 October 1957 in Hitchin and played over 100 games for Arsenal between 1983 and 1987. Of these he had 60 starts to league matches and came on 23 times as a sub in league games scoring 16 goals. Although he only played 60 league games for Arsenal he has …
Read More “Ian Allinson; hero of the league cup, and recipient of administrative cock-ups”
