Arsenal beat Blackburn on Ducat’s debut
Woolwich Arsenal versus Blackburn Rovers: Saturday February 11th 1905
by Mark Andrews and Andy Kelly
Arsenal beat Blackburn on Ducat’s debut
Woolwich Arsenal versus Blackburn Rovers: Saturday February 11th 1905
by Mark Andrews and Andy Kelly
Stoke beat Arsenal in a physical game
Police bias at Manchester United
Stoke City versus Woolwich Arsenal: Saturday March 11th 1905
by Mark Andrews and Andy Kelly
Fog Beats Everton
Woolwich Arsenal versus Everton: Saturday November 26th 1904
by Mark Andrews and Andy Kelly
Arsenal beat French Internationals in a farcical game
Woolwich Arsenal versus Parisian XI: Monday December 5th 1904
by Mark Andrews and Andy Kelly
League win against the FA Cup holders for the Gunners
Woolwich Arsenal versus Manchester City: Saturday December 10th 1904
by Mark Andrews and Andy Kelly
by Andy Kelly and Mark Andrews
(@Gooner_AK) (@Royal Arsenal MRA)
The eagle-eyed amongst you who have read through this season’s handbook will have noticed a minor change within the list of managers. Arsenal’s second manager has changed from George Elcoat to William Elcoat. The reason for this is constant badgering of the handbook editor, Josh James, by us. We showed conclusively that since 1986 George Elcoat has been wrongly credited with having managed Woolwich Arsenal, and also showed the date that he started and the date he was “asked to resign”.
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?
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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.