Arsenal, February 1916: the 2nd league and a terrible tragedy on the pitch

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. The month began with dispiriting news as a night-long German Zeppelin raid on the West Midlands on 1 February resulted …

How we predicted the arrival of a £40m midfielder on 25 Sept 2008.

This is our daily review of Arsenal anniversaries taken from the Arsenal day by day  files prepared by the AISA Arsenal History Society. Below are the Anniversaries from 25 September. The one we’ve highlighted comes from the very first year of Untold Arsenal when we did indeed suggest we would sign a midfielder for £40m.  In …