Having secured the League and FA Cup double, Arsenal were intent on maximising their commercial potential. Arranging pre-season friendlies against Ben...
This was the third match of the 1949 tour of Brazil. Having beaten Fluminense of Rio 5 – 1 in the opening game, they had travelled to São Paulo for a ...
Some events are just so ingrained in the sporting psyche that they do not need words. This is one of them. Highbury was famous not just for football. ...
This was supposed to be played on the day before, the 19th which by happy coincidence is my birthday. It would have been a nice present, a trip to Wem...
‘End of an era’ is a widely and overused cliché when it comes to football. But twenty years ago really was a fundamental shift in football. In order t...
Back in the day end of season tours were as prevalent as those that signalled the incremental increases in training before the start of each campaign....
Paris, the city of romance and dreams. Nightmares if you are an Arsenal fan. Eleven years on from Zaragoza, Arsenal returned to the French capital. Th...
For the first time in three attempts, Arsenal defeated Newcastle United in the FA Cup final. The Magpies had made a habit of ending The Gunners cup dr...
A change of pace this morning with Arsenal venturing to South America for the first time in an end of season tour. Accompanying the players were membe...
Penalty shootouts have never been too happy for Arsenal in European finals at least. Brussels has never been a happy hunting ground for Arsenal either...
I confess. I have an irrational dislike of Terry Conroy. For the uninitiated, Conroy was an Irish international who played for Stoke in the 1970s. It ...
With Pat Rice’s retirement announced this week, it is fitting that the one trophy he lifted as Arsenal captain be remembered today. A routine victory ...
Although the title had been secured with a thoroughly well-deserved win at Old Trafford, the party happened at Highbury on the final Sunday of the sea...
Remember this date, little good has come on it so far in the history of Arsenal Football Club. This is marginally the lesser of two evils. Twelve mont...
This is a Daily Express article published on 9th May 1973, a serialisation from Tommy Lawton’s book When The Cheering Stopped following his retirement...
Five days after the climatic end to the League season, Arsenal clinched the double at Wembley with an iconic goal celebration from a ‘knackered’ Charl...
The final day of the season and in its own way, as dramatic as the win at Anfield in 1989. Going into the final Saturday, Wolverhampton Wanderers led ...
On this occasion, none of my words are necessary.
Players wages is a continually thorny issue throughout the history of football, from the birth of professionalism through maximum wage to the modern e...
A day in the club’s history that is rich in its’ pickings. Do we go with the title celebrations in 1998? The FA Cup in 2002? The losing FA Cup of 1952...
There could only be one post today. That’s not true obviously but the first post on the site about 3rd May could really only be one moment in time. Wh...
Not quite the day the music died but a tumultuous day in Arsenal’s history, and that of the wider game. English football would never be the same again...
Seven titles in sixteen seasons; the football equivalent of going from 0 – 60 in 4 seconds. Arsenal pipped Preston North End on goal average (1.514 vs...
Not quite the start of a new era but a signal of intent. As the youthful Liam Brady scored his first senior goal for the club, Bob Wilson played his f...
This was the first meeting between Liverpool and Arsenal in the FA Cup Final. Arsenal wearing an away strip triumphed by two Reg Lewis goals. The only...
Twelve months on and once more the outcome of the League title was decided at Stamford Bridge. Arsenal retained their title with two matches to spare,...
If there has been a more decorated player than Ray Kennedy, I am at a loss to think of whom it might be. He is unique I am sure, in the combinations o...
A relatively quick return to Wembley following the disappointment of the 1927 defeat to Cardiff City, the chance to erase the memories of that day. An...
Sir Henry Norris almost did not need his infamous political skills to negotiate Woolwich Arsenal into the First Division. Hindsight shows that had Ars...
The Establishment Club, one of the sobriquets of Arsenal from the 1930s and what better way to underline the aptness of the phrase by this friendly pl...
No English team had won against Juventus in Turin, as the report says here 11 previous meetings had ended in failure. Paul Vaessen’s goal provided him...
Previously Arsenal had gained enough points that required Newcastle United to win their remaining four games scoring forty goals in the process. This ...
Yes, it was that goal.
A self-indulgent post this morning, one of my favourite all-time Arsenal players with an enduring and enjoyable Highbury memory, a moment that can be ...
Stoke City, check; FA Cup semi-final, check; Replay required, check; For 1972, read 1971. You could propel this forward some time as well with The Tim...
Forty-five years after its’ formation, Arsenal Football Club were crowned Champions for the first time. This 3 – 1 victory over Liverpool left Arsenal...
They were only slender ones at best, the Tottenham title hopes, but Charlie Nicholas and Brian Talbot did the damage. The interpassing that set Nichol...
Prior to the Abramovich era, Chelsea were a yo-yo side content to take their debt-ridden balance sheet between Divisions 1 & 2. This defeat all but co...
Normally in the build-up to a match, injuries are the biggest worry. On the eve of the second leg of the Fairs Cup semi-final in Amsterdam, Dutch poli...
The semi-final from Hell. Spurs like to claim they won the first time the two teams met at Wembley – they didn’t, Arsenal had thrashed them 4 – 0 a co...
2002-03 season was shaping to be a glorious season. Achieving the double in 2001-02 was always going to be a difficult task but the squad set about re...
Arsenal had until recent times a perfect record in european semi-finals. Not that there had been many mind you but there was a decent roll-call of opp...
William Elcoat was the second permanent manager of Arsenal, his first match in charge appears to be this victory over Burton Swifts. An excellent hist...
