Henry Norris is knighted for setting up the Footballers’ Battalion. June 1917

By Tony Attwood If you have been reading this series from the beginning you will know that Henry Norris spent a huge sum of money recruiting two football battalions drawing on players initially from the London area and then beyond, after the outbreak of war. However you may have been a little confused in that …

The Man U pitch: a danger to spectators and players alike.

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 this day in 1909. Special feature: Highbury: from start to end with previously unseen pictures of the end of the stadium. Below are the Anniversaries from  October 30. 30 …