Arsenal – On This Day – 27th March
27th March 1909 - Sunderland 1-0 Arsenal. A player called James Maxwell plaid his final match for Arsenal after being rather upset at lack of game time. It's one thing storming off, but he apparently met up with his wife, absconded from the team, headed up north and...
Arsenal – On This Day – 26th March
26 March 1896 - Tottenham 1-3 Arsenal. The shape of things to come, even before Jack the Ripper was invented. 26th March 1930 - Hull City 0-1 Arsenal, FA Cup semi final replay. Arsenal won this game on the way to our first major trophy. Sounds like an eventful match,...
Arsenal – On This Day – 25th March
25th March 1893 - Millwall Athletic 0-1 Arsenal. Perhaps our very first 1-0 to the Arsenal, on the road for a Millwall away day in front of 6,000 fans. Back in 1893, Millwall were actually Arsenal's biggest rivals, and you can read more on that over at Arsenal.com...
Arsenal – On This Day – 24th March
24th March 1917 - Arsenal 2-1 Portsmouth. 4,500 fans watch Arsenal win out in the wartime league. 24th March 1928 - Arsenal's fourth successive FA Cup semi-final saw us lose 2-1 to Blackburn at Leicester's ground. 24th March 1934 - Ted Drake's Arsenal debut as we beat...
Arsenal – On This Day – 23rd March
23rd March 1894 - Woolwich Arsenal 6-0 Norwich Victoria. The club’s biggest win so far that season in the league. 23rd March 1907 - Arsenal lost a FA Cup semi-final for the second year running, our last semi-final until 1927. 23rd March 1910 - Arsenal were in...
Arsenal – On This Day – 22nd March
22nd March 1888 - The football league was born with the original 12 members. These were Accrington, Aston Villa, Blackburn Rovers, Bolton, Burnley, Derby, Everton, Notts County, Preston North End, Stoke (boooo!), West Brom and Wolves. Arsenal didn't get invented for...
Arsenal – On This Day – 21st March
21st March 1896 - Arsenal 7-0 Crewe. Having beaten Crewe the season before by the same scoreline, Arsenal battered the Northern outfit in front of just 4,000 fans in black and white. 21st March 1896 - Arsenal’s first international player; Caesar Jenkyns played for...
Arsenal – On This Day – 20th March
20th March 1908 - The 1908 Arsenal Ultras known as the 'Torpedo Boys' let off fireworks in the Forest ground and caused a fire. Full details here. Turns out they were rascals and used to set off fireworks and drink each town dry, around 2/3000 of them, even back...
All Premier League Games WILL Be Completed
At a Premier League meeting today, it was decided that this season will be completed. However, there will be no restart until at least the 30th of April as the coronavirus continues to wreak havoc across the world. Games had already been postponed until at least the...
All Back to Work Next Week Then, Lads!
According to Sky Sports, the Arsenal players are all set to return to training as early as next Tuesday following the coronavirus outbreak at the club which saw Mikel Arteta self-isolate after contracting the disease. While the coronavirus seemingly continues to take...
