Arsenal in wartime: January 1916. The end of the first wartime league.

By Tony Attwood This is part of the history of Arsenal during the time of Henry Norris’ involvement with the club.  A full index of the articles so far presented, appears at the foot of this page. Although it would not have been noticed in January 1916, as the war raged across the western world, …

Arsenal let a brilliant, brilliant player slip through their fingers

Here are the Anniversaries from 22 September  – part of our regular daily look at Arsenal’s history. Yesterday’s anniversaries were: “Nobody is ridiculous in this job as we know anything can happen.” A. Wenger. Our most recent article on Arsenal’s history… November / December 1915: the match fixing scandal comes to the fore: Norris is armed 22 …