The Crowd at The Arsenal v Newcastle 30 August 1919
By Mark Andrews
by Andy Kelly
Anyone who saw David O’Leary play would agree that he was one of the games calmest players who very rarely lost his cool. The only game that I can remember him coming close to being sent off was when he broke George Armstrong’s appearance record against Norwich on 4 November 1989. He was involved in a running battle with Martin Allen who seemed intent on provoking O’Leary to react, a tactic that almost worked as the Arsenal man was booked. Read More →
The Arsenal History recounts a classic, no holds barred, encounter between the North London rivals.
by Andy Kelly
I wrote an article on the return of Dennis Bergkamp for shewore.com
Click here to read it.
by Andy Kelly and Mark Andrews
In the fifth part of our series we look at a subtle change to The Arsenal’s name that took place much earlier than many people believe.
by Andy Kelly and Mark Andrews
We continue our series of Arsenal’s name changes by explaining what happened following the move to Highbury.
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
In part 3 of our series we look at the events that led to Royal Arsenal Football Club morphing into Woolwich Arsenal Football Club.
During the 1892-93 season the relationship between most of the Royal Arsenal committee and the club’s landlord, George Weaver, began to deteriorate. It culminated in a failed attempt by Weaver and three members of the Royal Arsenal committee to take control of the club. The full story is told in the opening chapter of Woolwich Arsenal – The Club That Changed Football. Towards the end of the season the members of the club voted to vacate the Invicta Ground and move back to the Manor Field, where Royal Arsenal had played between 1888 and 1890. Read More →
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.