Bob Wilson, Billy Wright’s problem and Bertie Mee’s solution.

By Tony Attwood The Billy Wright era ended in May 1966, so players signed before then were in theory at least signed by Billy Wright. Although that statement is obvious, I think this is important because some interesting players were signed and started playing before May 1966 – players who are associated with Mee but …

When 4,554 turned up to watch Arsenal, and a reign ended.

by Tony Attwood I have called the era of Swindin and Wright, in which after an initial success we had no cup finals, and no top four finishes, The Darkness, and I have written bits and pieces about it because generally other people don’t write too much about that era. The series on that period …

Bertie Mee, the trophies, ballroom dancing, left hook and the OBE.

———————– Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football.  Have your name in the book as an official sponsor.  Updated information here When Arsenal and Fulham were within moments of merging into one club… full details in “Making the Arsenal” ——————- Bertie Mee – taking us back to reality To begin, a correction to the details …

Bertie Mee: Out of the Darkness and into the Light

Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football.  Have your name in the book as an official sponsor.  Updated information here When Arsenal and Fulham were within moments of merging into one club… full details in “Making the Arsenal” ———————— By Tony Attwood This is an article in our series that aims to cover all the …

The Allison Era: 37 years from Administration to Domination

By Tony Attwood An introduction to the George Allison section of the web site There’s no special article on George Allison on the Arsenal web site, and yet if we just judge him by his years as manager, and nothing else, is record is an attractive won… Two league titles, an FA cup victory and …

Peter Marinello, Alan Ball, Geoff Barnett, Aston Villa. The results of the final 1971 quiz.

By Tony Attwood The final Double quiz – concerning what happened after the Double of 71 1.  In the 1971/2 we actually played two league games at Anfield.  Why was this?  Manchester United’s ground was shut – I think it was due to crowd trouble, but haven’t got the reference in front of me.  Anyway, …

The 5th and final Arsenal History Society “1971 Double” quiz

The First Double: The Quizzes By Tony Attwood As I am currently co-writing the book “Arsenal in the 70s” I have been running a little set of quizzes all this week about before, during and after the 1971 Double.  Here is the final quiz, and below are the answers to yesterday’s quiz.  If you would …

After the Double: what happened to Arsenal in 1972?

Beyond 1970/1.  What happened next? We have been running a little collection of quizzes all focussed around the 1971 Double.  This is the fourth quiz in the series.  At the end of this quiz you will find the answers to yesterday’s quiz.  Answers to this one will be up tomorrow. 1.  Arsenal won the league …

The 1971 Quiz – more about our first Double & answers to yesterday’s quiz

This the third quiz in this little series – and it continues straight on from the last – trying to tease out the knowledge you have of the First Double in 1971. So, ten more questions still on the 1970/1 season – and below that the earlier set of questions on that season, but this …

The second Double quiz: 1970/71 – surely you know all the answers!

—————— Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football.  Have your name in the book as an official sponsor.  Updated information here When Arsenal and Fulham were within moments of merging into one club… full details in “Making the Arsenal” ——————– The 1970s quizzes, part 2: Winning the Double – 1970/71 By Tony Attwood In case …

Do you really know Arsenal’s history? Try the first of our 1971 quizzes

Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football.  Have your name in the book as an official sponsor.  Updated information here When Arsenal and Fulham were within moments of merging into one club… full details in “Making the Arsenal” ——————————— The first Arsenal History Society Quiz: Before the Double By Tony Attwood Rather than write a …

Welcome to the History Wing of the AAA: re-writing Arsenal’s history wrongly

———————— Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football.  Have your name in the book as an official sponsor.  Updated information here When Arsenal and Fulham were within moments of merging into one club… full details in “Making the Arsenal” ———————— By Tony Attwood The AAA, in case you have missed them, is the Anti-Arsenal Arsenal, …

Iconic moments in the history of Arsenal: signing Cliff Bastin

By Tony Attwood There were so many great players in Arsenal’s first golden era that it is hard to pick out the signing of any as providing the iconic moment, but I’ll try – with the signing of Cliff Bastin who went on to be our highest peace-time scorer before Ian Wright. Clifford Sydney Bastin  …

Iconic moments: We won the league at WHL (for the first time)

Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football.  Have your name in the book as an official sponsor.  Updated information here The day when Fulham tried to take over Arsenal – the full story in “Making the Arsenal” We’re on Twitter @UntoldArsenal By Tony Attwood If you know any Arsenal history at all you will know …

121 Years ago today – Royal Arsenal’s last trophy

 ————————————————————– Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football.  Have your name in the book as an official sponsor.  Updated information here The day when Fulham tried to take over Arsenal – the full story in “Making the Arsenal” We’re on Twitter @UntoldArsenal —————— by Andy Kelly Following on from my last article celebrating Arsenal’s first …

Under Mr Wenger we score five goals once every 20 league games.

By Tony Attwood Scoring five or more in the Premier League  is something that Mr Wenger does rather well (and certainly better than any other manager in our history). This season has seen the number of games in which we have scored five or more continue to rise – with three occasions so far with …

Iconic moments 11: Arsenal’s first trophy after 17 years of nothing.

Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football.  Have your name in the book as an official sponsor.  Updated information here The day when Fulham tried to take over Arsenal – the full story in “Making the Arsenal” We’re on Twitter @UntoldArsenal ———————– By Tony Attwood Moments in history can be reduced to single items in …

122 years ago today – Arsenal’s first Silverware

By Andy Kelly 122 years ago today Arsenal won the Kent Junior Cup – the first ever trophy that the club won. Having played only friendlies during 1886-87, Royal Arsenal entered the London Senior Cup the following season. They received a bye in the first round and were soundly beaten 0-4 by Barnes.  This season …