This is our daily review of Arsenal anniversaries taken from the Arsenal day by day files prepared by the AISA Arsenal History Society.
Below are the Anniversaries from 27 September.
27 September 1957: Ted Platt’s last game. Ted then moved to Portsmouth where he played 31 games before moving on to Aldershot with whom he played 16. His final club was either Worcester City or Ashford (Kent) according to which source one opts for.
27 September 1978: Arsenal got their biggest two leg Uefa Cup winning margin beating Lokomotiv Leipzig 4-1 away. Brady, two from Stapleton and then Sunderland, were the goalscorers. It was also the first game for Paul Vaessen
27 September 1997: Everton 2 Arsenal 2 with goals from Wright and Overmars. 9th league game of the 2nd Double Season, with Arsenal still undefeated. The second double: part 1, part 2, part 3.
27 September 2004: Gilberto Silva scan revealed that he had life threatening back problems. However he recovered and played with Arsenal until 2008.
27 September 2008: After three wins in which Arsenal had scored a total of ten goals, Arsenal were unbelievably beaten 1-2 by Hull in their second defeat in the Emirates. The Arsenal goal came from McShane who turned it into his own net.
27 September 2012: Craig Eastmond loaned to Colchester Utd. He later transferred to Colchester for whom he played 61 league games before moving on to Yeovil in 2015.
27 September 2012: Sanchez Watt loaned to Colchester Utd. It was the last of six loan spells for Sanchez, before he signed for Colchester, playing 50 games before leaving in 2015.
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