Day: 5 September 2017

By Tony Attwood I most certainly think it is fair to say that by the start of the new year everyone knew that this was going to be the last football season until the war was over.  Of course with very limited coverage of the conflict in the press because of wholesale censorship there was …

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Here are the Anniversaries from 5 September  – part of our regular daily look at Arsenal’s history. Our most recent article on Arsenal’s history is December 1914: The Footballers’ Battalion formed by Arsenal chairman and others   5 September 1891:  Gavin Crawford’s debut for Royal Arsenal and he is reputed to have been the first professional …

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