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In the dark ages of Arsenal: Gerry Ward

By Tony Attwood Gerry Ward was born October 5, 1936 in Stepney and joined Arsenal as a trainee in 1952 during Tom Whittaker’s regime.  In his time as a junior Arsenal won the league (1952/3) but the...

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Arsenal History Society at The Unveiling of Arsenal’s Legends’ Statues

by Andy Kelly Last Friday I was one of three people (Tony Attwood and Mark Andrews being the other two) that received an e-mail from Paul Matz of AISA asking if one of us would like to attend the...

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Players from the Dark Era: Jimmy Bloomfield

Follow us on Twitter @Untold Arsenal ———————————- “Making the Arsenal” – is available on Amazon, Arsenal on line, the Woolwich Arsenal site and in the Arsenal store. —————————————- Untold...

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Joe Haverty: a beacon of light in an era of Darkness

Joe Haverty (17 February 1936 – 7 February 2009) played for Home Farm FC and St Patrick’s Athletic in Ireland (reaching the country’s Cup final), and then signed for Arsenal in 1954 joining the side on...

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Henry Boyd, Arsenal’s top goal scorer on a goals per game ratio: an update

Updated 9 October 2018 Please note that we have been kindly provided with more information by Colin MacKenzie of the website Scottishsporthistory.   What I have done here is left Andy’s original...

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13 October 1928: Arsenal Smash The World Transfer Record – But what REALLY...

By Andy Kelly 84 years ago today Arsenal broke the world transfer record by paying a reported £10,890 to Bolton for David Jack. I’m sure that you, dear reader, will have read the story of Jack’s...

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John Storrs who played in our first season, but then vanished.

by Tony Attwood Finding John Storrs, who played 12 league games and four FA Cup games for Woolwich Arsenal in the club’s inaugural league season, has turned out to be a bit of a problem. We know about...

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Patrick Vieira: Arsenal’s Missing Rib

Patrick Vieira: Arsenal’s Missing Rib With Arsene Wenger remaining at Arsenal as manager for another two seasons, the odds on the North London club, as shown on Ladbrokes free bet, to win the Premier...

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Arsenal’s experience with Europa League opponents

After the Europa League draw, many Arsenal supporters were left stupefied as to who some of their opponents in the competition are. So, rather than bore our readers with another explanation of Qarabag...

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Why Emery Should Play Aubameyang & Lacazette Together

Unai Emery’s first season in charge of Arsenal is coming to a close. The verdict? It was always going to be a strange one, following on from 22 years under Arsène Wenger, which brought three Premier...

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Whatever happened to Lukas Podolski?

Lukas Podolski played for Bayern Munich and FC Koln before joining Arsenal in 2012, playing 60 games and scoring 19 goals before going on loan to Inter Milan in 2015.   He then played for Galatasaray,...

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