AISA Arsenal History Society: preserving Arsenal's heritage
Alexander Rooney Forbes was born 21 January 1925 in Dundee and started with Dundee North End, before joining Sheffield United 1944, towards the end of the second world war. Alex Forbes moved to Arsenal for £12,500 in February 1948 having already become a Scottish international. Arsenal’s first season after the war was George Allison’s final …
Today on Untold Arsenal: Super League: fans are starting to think it might be a good idea after all Join Arsenal Independent Supporters Association for free – see below. Arsenal anniversaries on 6 March. Today’s headline comes from 1926 6 March 1905: Thomas Fitchie and Robert Templeton represent Scotland – the first Arsenal players ever to …
Join AISA for Free. If you enjoy our daily review of Arsenal’s history please do show your appreciation by becoming an associate member of AISA – Arsenal Independent Supporters’ Association. It’s completely free, but being a member does make a statement that you value our work not just in recording Arsenal’s history but …
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Day by Day the stories – a key moment in Arsenal and footballing history for each day of the year Day by Day the videos– An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. Football Today: Arsenal’s task now is stability in a rapidly changing league And now on with the Arsenal anniversaries of …
Day by Day the stories – a key moment in Arsenal and footballing history for each day of the year Day by Day the videos– An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. Football Today: How many players does a club need and how much of a problem do injuries bring? And …
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Day by Day the stories – a key moment in Arsenal and footballing history for each day of the year Arsenal today: Arsenal transfers: the start of the rumours and what happened in January Day by Day the videos– An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. 30 May 1921: The AGM of the …
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Day by Day the stories – a key moment in Arsenal and footballing history for each day of the year Arsenal today: Arsenal v Brighton: Only a minority of this ref’s games are home wins Day by Day the videos– An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. The anniversaries… 14 May …
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Anniversaries of Arsenal 28 April Day by Day the stories – a key moment in Arsenal and footballing history for each day of the year Arsenal today: Abuse of young people at football clubs: has anything changed? Day by Day the videos– An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. 28 April 1893. George …
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Day by Day the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. Day by Day the stories – a key moment in Arsenal and footballing history for each day of the year Arsenal today: Arsenal v Chelsea – The Women’s Continental Cup Final preview 2023 100+ Years: the complete story of Arsenal’s promotion in …
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Day by Day the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. Day by Day the stories – a key moment in Arsenal and footballing history for each day of the year Arsenal today: A technical punch up, a glorious cock up and a very silly little boy 100+ Years: the complete story …
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Day by Day the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. Day by Day the stories – a key moment in Arsenal and footballing history for each day of the year Arsenal today: Could this be the best PL season ever for Arsenal in terms of goals? The anniversaries for …
Day by Day the videos – An Arsenal video for (almost) every day of the year in order. Day by Day the stories – a key moment in Arsenal and footballing history for each day of the year Arsenal today: “Arsenal’s new signing and preparing for Manchester United” By Tony Attwood The very last entry on today’s list …
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Anniversary video index: an Arsenal video for (almost) each day of the year Arsenal Day by Day: the stories Arsenal in September: Over 600 Arsenal events day by day 100 Years: 100 Years in the First Division 15 September 1953: Chelsea 0 Arsenal 2. Having won the league the previous season Arsenal had to wait until this, …
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Today’s anniversaries are below. Meanwhile you might also like to note the collection of club videos (each article bringing together a series of videos of our famous matches against each individual club) and our videos of the day, celebrating a match from Arsenal’s past. You will find full details and links on our home page. …
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Our video of the day is normally from a match, but at this time of year we don’t have many to choose from – and very curiously the Emirates Cup games are not available – I would have thought that would a be a standard part of the Emirates marketing campaign for their name and …
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The Videos… Aside from the daily videos on days where there was an Arsenal game of note that we can commemorate we are also building the video collections, where we focus on matches against just one club Details of the video collections where we gather together the videos relating to Arsenal games against one …
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There are links to our most recent videos and the club series on the home page. An index of 260+ historic videos is here Contact Arsenal History Society at Tony@schools.co.uk 100 Years in the First Division: the absolute complete story of Arsenal’s promotion in 1919. Henry Norris at the Arsenal: There is a full index to the series here. Arsenal …
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240+ historic videos and lots of anniversaries. There are links to our most recent videos and the club series on the home page. An index of 240+ historic videos is here Contact Arsenal History Society at Tony@schools.co.uk 100 Years in the First Division: the absolute complete story of Arsenal’s promotion in 1919. Henry Norris at the Arsenal: There is a …
There are links to some of our recent videos on the home page. A full index of our historic videos is here The anniversaries are below… Contact Arsenal History Society at Tony@schools.co.uk 100 Years in the First Division: the absolute complete story of Arsenal’s promotion in 1919. Henry Norris at the Arsenal: There is a full index to the …
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The anniversaries are below… Contact Arsenal History Society at Tony@schools.co.uk 100 Years in the First Division: the absolute complete story of Arsenal’s promotion in 1919. Henry Norris at the Arsenal: There is a full index to the series here. Arsenal in the 1930s: The most comprehensive series on the decade ever Arsenal in the 1970s: Every match and every intrigue …
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30 January 1893: Royal Arsenal 3 Sherwood Foresters 0. It was part of a three-win run but at the start and end of the run Arsenal lost games to university teams suggesting Arsenal still had a way to go to get to Football League standard. 30 January 1897: Woolwich Arsenal 7 Ilkeston Town 0. Despite …
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On this day… Here are the anniversaries. 21 January 1893: Sunderland 6 Royal Arsenal 0 (FA Cup). Arsenal had won through to the first round proper for the first time, but then saw the difference in quality between league and non-league teams. 21 January 1899: Adam Haywood scored the only goal of the match against …
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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 …
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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 …
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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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