Stanley Briggs; from Tottenham to Arsenal to Tottenham. But is the tale all it seems?

By Tony Attwood Stanley Briggs was a centre half, born in Stamford Hill, in Hackney, north London, on 7 February 1872, and was signed by Arsenal on 23 October 1893 as an amateur from Tottenham where he had been playing since 1892. At some stage in his early years his family had moved to Kent …