The Arsenal History

13Jan 2014

How Arsenal’s Name Changed – Royal Arsenal

by Andy Kelly

by Andy Kelly and Mark Andrews

In this series we explain when and why the football club now known as Arsenal changed its name.

Having played their first game the members of Dial Square Football Club decided to open up their club to the whole of the Royal Arsenal. Why? Well, probably because working in another part of the factory was a certain Fred Beardsley, and opening up the membership would allow Dial Square access to one of the country’s top goalkeepers. Beardsley had recently moved to Plumstead from Nottingham where he played regularly for Nottingham Forest including their FA Cup semi-final in 1885 against Queen’s Park.

10Jan 2014

How Arsenal’s name changed – Dial Square

by Andy Kelly

by Andy Kelly and Mark Andrews

With the recent proposed name change of Hull City to Hull Tigers a discussion ensued on twitter about Arsenals’ previous names (as well as the current name). So, we thought that we would clarify Arsenal’s names throughout the years, when they changed and why.

04Jan 2014

Arsenal v Tottenham – Two results we’d like to see today

by Andy Kelly

To get you in the mood for the North London Derby in the FA Cup later today I thought you might enjoy reading a couple of match reports for games where either scoreline today would be acceptable.

27Dec 2013

The Arsenal Legend Who Only Played 110 Minutes

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.

24Dec 2013

Mike Dean and The Arsenal

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 Some out of date stats have been bandied about so I thought I would put together the following table so that it can be used as an accurate reference point to sling some mud at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.