Arsenal: March – May 1916. The team in decline, entry to football taxed for the first time.

By Tony Attwood Part 1: March In March 1916 the second competition of the London Combination wartime league was proceeding along its seemingly haphazard way through its penultimate month.  As noted earlier, not every team in the league played each other, and the league had all the looks of something that was put together quickly …

Stanley Matthews said he was no good so he did factory work. Until Arsenal found him.

This is our daily review of Arsenal anniversaries taken from the Arsenal day by day  files prepared by the AISA Arsenal History Society. Today’s headline story comes from 29 September 2002 with the 1-4 away win against Leeds United.  There are details below, and more on the article that is linked from the piece in today’s …