Arsenal – March 1917. Measles, price rises, women start to serve.

  By Tony Attwood We have something of a conundrum on 3 March 1917 with a contradiction in the football records.   As the severe weather continued Sally Davis tells us “there was snow on the pitch at Highbury for Spurs v Portsmouth”.  However Andy Kelly shows that Arsenal beat Clapton Orient at home 3-1 in front of …

An almighty Arsenal victory over Manchester United

This is our daily review of Arsenal anniversaries taken from the Arsenal day by day  files prepared by the AISA Arsenal History Society. Our headline is taken from 21 October 1961 Below are the Anniversaries from  October 21.   21 October 1912: Athletic News announced, wrongly, that Arsenal would move to Harringey Park the following summer.  The …