Day: 11 August 2017

by Tony Attwood We left Arsenal in our last article (The players who launched Arsenal’s rebirth), finishing October with five wins, two draws and two defeats in their opening nine games – the best start to a season since 1906.  The table looked like this… Pos Team Pld W D L F A GAvg Pts …

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Here are the Anniversaries from 11 August – part of our regular daily look at Arsenal’s history. Details of the whole list of 5000 Arsenal anniversaries and other activities undertaken by the Arsenal History Society are at the end of today’s list.   11 August 1947: Don Roper signed from Southampton  (See background article here).  He …

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