Arsenal draw with League leaders
Woolwich Arsenal versus Sunderland: Saturday November 5th 1904
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
by Andy Kelly
As we all know, Arsenal played their first ever game on 11 December 1886 as Dial Square against Eastern Wanderers, right? Well, it depends on which version of the club’s history that you read.
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
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On 5 December 1904 Woolwich Arsenal played host to a Parisian touring team. The game finished with the Gunners recording their biggest ever win: 26-1. The French team should count themselves lucky as Woolwich Arsenal fielded seven reserve team players.
by Andy Kelly and Mark Andrews
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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.