In the immediate aftermath of winning the FA Cup, Terry Neill went out to strengthen his squad. Johan Neeskens was a key member of the Ajax side which...
The nature of football is speculation about the manager’s future, it always has been, always will be. There had been speculation over Jack Crayston’s ...
More from the club’s Brazilian tour, this time with the view that Arsenal’s 5 – 1 victory over Fluminense was good for the country’s exports to the So...
A look at the World from 1949, this about Arsenal’s tour of Brazil this month. Match reports from the tour here, here and here.
For the first time, both domestic cup finals featured the same teams. Arsenal had beaten Sheffield Wednesday in March to win the League Cup (in its Co...
Covered in the national press but it seems that Lester Snapes dreams of professional football never came true. What tale unfolded to stop that happeni...
Following the 3 – 2 victory over Manchester United the previous day, Arsenal brought the FA Cup home.
Not bitter about this defeat at all. No, not at all. (Click to enlarge)
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A miserable run of three draws and a home defeat to defending champions, Derby County, took Arsenal’s title fate out of their own hands. This was the ...
Eleven years previously, Manchester United had been the opposition as Highbury celebrated the title. This evening, Arsenal went one better, winning th...
Two months previously, Don Revie and his men had defeated Arsenal 1 – 0 at Wembley in the League Cup Final. It was Arsenal’s first final in more than ...
As close to being Invincible as can be, a solitary defeat at Stamford Bridge during February prevented that occurring. Arsenal won the title without p...
Ordinarily, an end of the season match between the two London clubs might not have garnered much attention save for the action filmed and used as the ...
When I was a youngster, Dixie Dean’s sixty goal season for Everton was the stuff of legends. How could a player manage that? It was a big deal when pl...
The father of the current chairman, Denis Hill-Wood passed away on this day in 1982. He had succeeded his father, Samuel, as chairman in 1959. His ste...
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A difficult post to produce in terms of a headline and words. Tragic and senseless.
Hillsborough, April 1988. Arsenal had beaten Sheffield Wednesday in the League Cup by a Nigel Winterburn goal en route to Wembley but this was a routi...
The trophies wouldn’t stop coming. Or so it seemed. Having won the FA Cup in 1930, the Football League title in 1930-31, 1932-33, 1933-34, 1934-35 and...
Having secured the club’s first major honour by winning the FA Cup the previous Saturday, the Arsenal players were given a civic reception in Islingto...
Given the opposition to the Football League Cup that Arsenal had in the 1960s, it seems odd that they participated in what could be considered that co...
Ordinarily a single goal victory in the North London Derby would not have been high on the list of games to cover in only the second year of the site ...
A just horrible, horrible day.
Infamous for Dan Lewis’ jersey, this was also Charles Buchan’s last FA Cup final, having lost his only other previous final when at Sunderland, in 191...
In the end, it was a fitting tribute to Herbert Chapman. Having set the foundations at Huddersfield Town for a similar feat, arguably Chapman left a g...
This remains the highest scoring draw in the English top flight and shares the record with Charlton v Middlesbrough’s 1960 meeting in the old Second D...
Thursday night football might well be a derogatory term these days but on this night in Genoa, Arsenal did not care. They took a slender 3 – 2 advanta...
