Hello, In the past Tony has requested information from readers who knew or thought they knew that their relatives played for Woolwich Arsenal. As we are nearing the drafting section of the book, this is a similar request but concerning anyone whose relative was a director or who has been told their ancestor was a …
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——————————- Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football. Have your name in the book as an official sponsor. Updated information here Want to contact Arsenal History Society or this blog? See important note at the foot of this article. ————————————– Iconic moment 6: the appointment of Chapman By Tony Attwood Spring 1925. It is almost …
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————————————————————– Click here to become part of the definitive history of Woolwich Arsenal FC Follow us on Twitter @Untold Arsenal ————– By Tony Attwood While we see promotion and relegation based on final league positions as normal today, for much of the existence of the Football League and other leagues in England, this has not …
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———————– Arsenal’s 125th anniversary celebrations continued in the Jubilee Committee Room at the House of Commons in London on Thursday 12th January in a meeting hosted by Islington North MP Jeremy Corbyn, whose constituency includes the Emirates Stadium, and who is an Arsenal supporter. Guest of honour was Philippa Dawson, the great great grand daughter …
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——————————— Click here to become part of the definitive history of Woolwich Arsenal FC Follow us on Twitter @Untold Arsenal ————————————- By Tony Attwood This is a series about iconic moments in the history of Arsenal, not about anniversaries that the club or the fans might like to celebrate but with Highbury the two combine. …
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By Tony Attwood On January 12 2012 in the historic setting of the House of Commons, the AISA Arsenal History Society will hold its first social. And as part of that event my colleagues and I in the Society will take the opportunity to launch the forthcoming book written by three of the officers …
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By Tony Attwood If 1893 was traumatic, with Arsenal fighting corruption and intrigue in the form of Royal Ordnance Factories (whose sole purpose was to close down Arsenal and set up a rival Plumstead club), 1910 was, in a very real sense, the end. Arsenal had risen, and risen fast. True they had not won …
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By Mark Andrews and Tony Attwood Twice in the first 25 years of its existence Arsenal football club came to the very brink of going out of existence. Yet in virtually all the histories of the club the first of these disasters (in 1893) is written (if at all) as a minor incident of no …
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By Tony Attwood My thought in this new series is not to find the 10 greatest moments (3 cup and league doubles and that sort of thing) but rather the moments that defined Arsenal as a club, and set out the way things would go in the future. It is fairly obvious that in such …
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