by Andy Kelly
I wrote an article on the return of Dennis Bergkamp for shewore.com
Click here to read it.
by Mark Andrews
Yesterday we attended the AISA Q&A event, which was organised with a fair degree of expertise.
by Andy Kelly and Mark Andrews
This is a three-part article that is probably the most important that we will write. It explains how we found a discrepancy in Arsenal’s early history that snowballed until we realised that much of what has been written about the club before the First World War is inaccurate and incomplete.
by Andy Kelly
There is one player who has written himself into Arsenal folklore even though his total competitive playing time in the first team was 110 minutes. If you ask any Arsenal fan of a certain age, you can guarantee that they will all have the same opinion of him.
Arsenal beat Blackburn on Ducat’s debut
Woolwich Arsenal versus Blackburn Rovers: Saturday February 11th 1905
by Mark Andrews and Andy Kelly
By Andy Kelly
(@Gooner_AK)
Whilst filming some short clips about The Arsenal’s early history with Arsenal Media yesterday I mentioned the club’s most prolific goalscorer, his part in Arsenal’s record defeat and the fact that he is virtually unknown.
Mark Andrews @Royal Arsenal MRA
Caesar Jenkyns – First Arsenal player to appear in an international match.
To celebrate Movember we recall the “Victorian Souness”.
21 Mar 1896: Caesar Jenkyns became the first player at the club to play international football
“So Strange” Cartoon by Tom Webster of the Daily Mail
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By Andy Kelly
@gooner1947 recently posted an old photograph on Twitter of an Arsenal captain shaking hands with his opposite number at the start of the game. Peter asked who the captain was and what was the year. That captain was Charlie Jones but explaining what year and the reason why would take somewhat more than the 140 characters that Twitter allows in each tweet.