Three momentous Arsenal anniversaries on 14 August

As usual there is a full list of anniversaries on the home page of both this site and Untold Arsenal.

But I would like to highlight just three of them…

• 14 August 1963: Bob Wilson’s first game
• 14 August 1996.  The first Wenger signings, Remi Garde (free) and Patrick Vieira (£3.5m) joined Arsenal.
• 14 August 2005: Start of the final season at Highbury with game against Newcastle.  A 2-0 victory.

The start of the career of Bob Wilson is enough of a day to remember – but to share it with the signing of the first two Wengerians to join the club – and the start of the last season at Highbury.

What makes the middle of the three – the signings by Wenger – so interesting, is that he hadn’t even come to the club by then – he will still seeing out his contract in Japan.

Meanwhile major updates are being carried out on the monthly listings, and in each case you will find quite a few new anniversaries have been added in the past month.

Here’s the index

 

• January
• February
• March
• April
• May
• June
• July 
• August
• September
• October 
• November
• December

And …

• Woolwich Arsenal: The club that changed football – Arsenal’s early years
• Making the Arsenal – how the modern Arsenal was born in 1910
• The Crowd at Woolwich Arsenal

– See more at: http://www.blog.woolwicharsenal.co.uk/#sthash.enPKXP7G.dpuf

 

Tony Attwood