This is our daily review of Arsenal anniversaries taken from the Arsenal day by day files prepared by the AISA Arsenal History Society. Here are the stories from this day in history… 18 December 1909: After 3 wins in a row, in which they scored seven, Woolwich Arsenal started a run of three home games in …
Read More “The passing of the player who was the first chair of Woolwich Arsenal and a director until 1927.”
By Tony Attwood On 11 December 1918, just three days before the day of the general election Sir Henry Norris held another campaign meeting, and then two days later, in common with other candidates he placed an advertisement in the local paper announcing that as a candidate of the Coalition which had taken power in 1916 upon …
Read More “Arsenal, 11 – 31 December 1918. A 9-2 victory, the chairman becomes an MP, footballers unionise.”
