The Arsenal Shirt
By James Elkin and Simon Shakeshaft
In what was to become a landmark season for The Arsenal Football Club, they struggled to overcome a dogged Hull City team who were on their way to be being relegated from Division Two (that’s The Championship to our younger readers). We tell the story of a very feisty FA Cup semi-final replay.
Programme cover for the game
Courtesy of Leonard Evans
Arsenal Managers’ trophy average: a quantitative analysis
Managers’ Trophy Average Co-efficient
This is an objective historical review of all Arsenal managers who have won a trophy, based very loosely around the theory of a cricket average. In this fashion the trophy average is worked out by dividing the number of trophies won by the number of trophies entered. The percentage is obtained simply by dividing the trophies each manager actually won against what they could have won in their period managing at the club. The higher the percentage the better the performance. A simple but effective guide. Read More →
The Arsenal Cup – Oporto 1948
As Vic and Bob would say: Look at the size of that trophy !!!
Very recently the only one man still alive from the match, the Portuguese substitute Sanfins, currently aged 92, visited FC Porto’s museum to see the trophy he helped to win.