April 1918: the third wartime league ends; Ireland rebels against conscription.

By Tony Attwood As we have seen, the 1917/18 London Combination season was something of an up and down league from Arsenal’s point of view.  By the end of February Arsenal had won 13, lost 10 and drawn five of their games in the league.  Most frustratingly, there had been no sense of putting a …

The Arsenal player who sued Arsenal and changed football’s approach to contracts

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 1892 Special feature: Highbury: from start to end with previously unseen pictures of the end of the stadium. Below are the Anniversaries from  November 17.  19 …