The Anniversaries of Arsenal (please help us build the list)

  We’re building a list of anniversaries of the club. It is quite interesting that as we are in the 125th year of the club, and approaching the 100th anniversary of the move to Highbury, there is no big list of anniversaries available, so clearly this is something to be set up. Our list has …

Arsenal’s managers analysed by history, games and success

By Tony Attwood With each of the articles on managers in this long-running series I have tried to do a little summary of their achievements.  But I felt that before I went further with Terry Neil it would be good to have an overall summary of all Arsenal managers. The table of Arsenal management and …

The Terry Neill Years: three cup finals a 3rd and two 4ths

By Tony Attwood We have been building up a series of files on Arsenal managers and recently did some work on Bertie Mee. Bertie Mee reigned until his resignation at the end of the 1975/76 season.  The side that had contested five cup finals in five years, had won the club’s first ever European trophy, …

Happy (re)Birthday Arsenal

Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football.  New info on publication date.  Updated information here When Arsenal and Fulham were within moments of merging into one club… full details in “Making the Arsenal” We are on Twitter @Untold Arsenal ———————————   By Andy Kelly 26th April is a special day for Arsenal FC. On this …

The flavour of football 1973: fights, bookings, and the end of civilisation

By Tony Attwood I have been writing about Bertie Mee and his players – but there is another issue that I would like to cover.  Indeed I would say I have been rather remiss in not covering this in earlier eras that we have looked at, and I hope to go back and make up …

A tribute to Leroy Rosenior: the man who did so much for Arsenal

by Andy Kelly “Why on Earth are you writing about Leroy Rosenior on an Arsenal history site?” you are probably thinking. Well, whilst putting together Woolwich Arsenal – The Club That Changed Football I put it to my co‑authors that if one of Woolwich Arsenal’s directors hadn’t died at the young age of 28 then …

The players he let go and the signings that Bertie made

——————- Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football.  New info on publication date.  Updated information here When Arsenal and Fulham were within moments of merging into one club… full details in “Making the Arsenal” ——————————— By Tony Attwood So far in this series on Bertie Mee’s years at Arsenal we have looked at the players …

When was the last time Tottenham finished above Arsenal?

By Tony Attwood This article was written with a few games to go in the 2011/12 season.  Now we know Arsenal finished 3rd, Tottenham 4th this season, and Chelsea… well, Chelsea… Anyway, here’s the record and in due course I’ll add the extra line to show this season… ——- The issue of beating Tottenham in …

Peter Storey: the man to whom I would most like to say thank you.

By Tony Attwood Peter Edwin Storey was one of the key players in the Mee era – he came into the first team a year before Mee arrived and left a year after Mee met.  He is a man who, perhaps almost more than anyone else in the team, I would want to say thank …

Frank McLintock; brought in by Wright after success at Leicester

Woolwich Arsenal, the club that changed football.  New info on publication date.  Updated information here When Arsenal and Fulham were within moments of merging into one club… full details in “Making the Arsenal” ——————— By Tony Attwood Frank McLintock, our player of the year, and footballer of the year, during the Double season, was brought …

John Radford: signed by Wright but developed by Mee.

—————– By Tony Attwood John Radford was born in Yorkshire in 1947 and played 475 league and cup games between 1964 and 1976 for Arsenal, scoring 149 goals.  After that he went on to West Ham where he played 28 and scored none, and then had one season with Blackburn where he played 38 and …

Peter Simpson, one club, three managers, unusual loans and gaps…

  By Tony Attwood Peter Simpson is another of our long serving players who hit gold during the brief period of the Mee era when we won three trophies. In terms of league football, he was an Arsenal man throughout, and his only other clubs were in America, and Hendon. Here’s the record – effectively …

George Armstrong: signed by Swindin but came good under Mee

By Tony Attwood As I have started looking at the players who played in the Bertie Mee sides that won our first Euro trophy and our first Double, it has become apparent just how many of those stars of 1970 and 1971 were actually signed during the Billy Wright era, which ended in the summer …