by Mark Andrews
Yesterday we attended the AISA Q&A event, which was organised with a fair degree of expertise.
by Mark Andrews
Yesterday we attended the AISA Q&A event, which was organised with a fair degree of expertise.
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.
by Andy Kelly
This isn’t the sort of article that we would normally produce but there has been a fair amount of talk recently about Arsenal’s record with Mike Dean as referee. Some out of date stats have been bandied about so I thought I would put together the following table so that it can be used as an accurate reference point to sling some mud at the man from Wirral.
by Andy Kelly
(@Gooner_AK)
On 24 November 1967 Bertie Mee told the Daily Mirror that Arsenal were no longer interested in signing Don Rogers from Swindon Town. At the time Swindon were looking to cash in on the 22 year old winger who had asked for a transfer having been their top scorer the previous season and with 11 in 21 games at this point of the season.
by Andy Kelly (@Gooner_AK)
Ingrained within the heritage of The Arsenal is the long standing latin motto “Victoria Concordia Crescit”. Over the years there have been a number of variations of the translation but all are roughly the same: “Victory Grows Through Harmony.”
But when was this motto first attributed to The Arsenal, and why?
By Andy Kelly
(@Gooner_AK)
This is an expanded version of the article we recently wrote for the History Lesson page for the Arsenal matchday programme.
Throughout the club’s history Arsenal have always had a reputation as pioneers and innovators. On 23 March 1974 the club was involved in one of football’s more unusual firsts.
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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.