One of the joys of digging around in Arsenal’s past is finding a photograph or an article that looks reasonably…
by Andy Kelly “Why on Earth are you writing about Leroy Rosenior on an Arsenal history site?” you are probably…
The First Arsenal Crest Mark Andrews and Andy Kelly
Proven Innocent Not Good Enough For The FA In the mid-1920s a legendary Arsenal player was suspended by the Football…
Arsene Wenger Gives The Media A Bloody Nose Today, Arsene Wenger celebrates 20 years as Arsenal manager. It’s been an…
20: Alexander Sanders Robertson – 1891-92 A while ago Andy set a fiendishly difficult twitter question: “Who was the first…
Except it’s a load of old cobblers One of the stories about Arsenal that Tottenham fans like dredge up due…
Arsenal players with seven or more goals in a game Followers of Arsenal’s academy can’t help but have noticed schoolboy…
Owner, majority shareholder or something else? If you’ve read any books that tell the history of Arsenal (or even Chelsea…
The Arsenal Cup – Oporto 1948 As Vic and Bob would say: Look at the size of that trophy !!!
The Dawning of a New Era We have been given permission by Arsenal FC to publish the minute books for…
Megs Wilson Born on 30 May 1942 Margaret “Megs” Wilson (née Miles) was the co-founder with Bob Wilson of the…
John Hollins MBE Born on 16 July 1946 in Guildford, Surrey, Jonn William Hollins was the 576th player picked to…
Fred Ollier Born in Crewe, Fred first visited Highbury in 1946 and regularly attended matches thereafter. He began his statistical…
Peter Davies Born on 8 March 1936 in Dafen, Wales, Peter played for Dafen and then Llanelly before being signed…
David Hogwood David was born on 22 January 1944 in Islington, he started his career at Arsenal with the youth…
Kevin Connolly Kevin edited the Arsenal programme from August 1983 to November 1998. At that point he was the second…
Following on from our other lists, we now have a list of Arsenal’s 32 youngest goalscorers in a competitive first…
Who gave who a set of shirts? One of the many mis-told stories in Arsenal’s history is that of the…
The Archery Tournament – Or Was It? Those of you that have read an Arsenal history book will, more than…
A City player really did come onto the pitch with a Monty Python D.P. Gumby style handkerchief on his head…
by Andy Kelly and Mark Andrews In the fifth part of our series we look at a subtle change to…
by Andy Kelly and Mark Andrews We continue our series of Arsenal’s name changes by explaining what happened following the…
by Andy Kelly and Mark Andrews In part 3 of our series we look at the events that led to…
by Andy Kelly and Mark Andrews In this series we explain when and why the football club now known as…
Complete List of Arsenal Players to Score Three or More Goals in a Game Following the Arsenal v Basel Champions…
by Andy Kelly and Mark Andrews With the recent proposed name change of Hull City to Hull Tigers* a discussion…
As regular visitors to our website will be aware we have a list of every Arsenal player to have played…
Liam Harding, great grandson of Arsenal Legend Ted Drake, took part in The Arsenal Togetherness project which has resulted in…
Whenever a new Arsenal player makes his debut, the question “how many players have played for Arsenal?” usually gets asked.…
Dave Smith, 1972-1974 Dave Joined Arsenal on 12 July 1971 as reserve coach in what can only be described as…
Steve Braddock 1964 – 2022 Born on 6 February 1964 in Hatfield, Steve was one of the most influential football…
485: William John Terence ‘Terry’ Neill – 1959-1970 and 1976-1983 Ulsterman Neill was something of a cup specialist during his…
Raymond ‘Ray’ Barr 1949-1952 Ray was born on 5 June 1931 in Dromore, County, Down, Northern Ireland, who was spotted…
Steve Rowley 1980-2017 Born on 2 December 1958 in Romford, Steve spent 37 years at Arsenal as assistant youth development…
452: Cornelius Henry ‘Con’ Sullivan 1954-59 Born on 22 August 1928 in Bristol, Con was a Gloucestershire youth football player,…
Steve Burtenshaw Born in Portslade on 23 November 1935, Burtenshaw came from a footballing family with two of his older…
Ingrained within the heritage of The Arsenal is the long standing Latin motto “Victoria Concordia Crescit”. Over the years there…
After 12 years of financial austerity due to paying off the construction costs of their new ground at Highbury and…
Why did Tottenham poll so few votes in 1919? If you’re not already aware, following the end of World War…
It is exactly a year to the day that we launched The Arsenal Collection, so we thought there was no…
“Honest” John McKenna’s Impassioned Speech We’ve written a number of blogs on this site about Arsenal’s election to the First…
Things have been a little quiet on The Arsenal Collection front for one reason or another over the last few…
Today we publish all of Arsenal’s home programmes from the 1949-50 season. It was a season of firsts on and…
The Arsenal Collection is now just over a month old, and we already have over 1,000 followers on Social Media,…
The first week This week we’ve added a couple more seasons of programmes: 1954-55 and 1967-68. 1967-8 was fairly eventful…
The first week We’ve been up and running for just over a week now and adding content on a daily…
The Arsenal History have just launched a sister website – The Arsenal Collection. It is an online collection of Arsenal memorabilia…
Welcome to The Arsenal Collection! The Arsenal Collection is a collaboration between Andy Kelly and Mark Andrews of The Arsenal…
Welcome to The Arsenal Collection – a digital collection of Arsenal memorabilia. Follow us to keep up to date with…
Almost a century on, Arsenal’s election back into the First Division in 1919 continues to rankle Tottenham fans. Having shown that…
But not when most people think Sir Henry Norris. Depending on which team you support, Sir Henry was either Arsenal’s…
The Arsenal Crowd at Woolwich Referee JB Brodie knocked insensible by Woolwich Arsenal fan Manor Ground closed for 6 weeks If…
Celebrating the wrong day for nearly 60 years If you’re an Arsenal fan that has been to a game any…
A “not for clicks” blog A discussion on twitter a while back about the demise of modern football journalism eventually…
For today’s game the manager and whole team must call upon the fighting spirit of Arsenal’s most pugnacious boss in its history. He…
Arsenal reserves beat Tottenham first team No doubt many of you will know that in April 1980 Arsenal had a…
The Arsenal History – Mythbusters It’s been 25 years since Arsenal’s history was re-written and Sam Hollis was instated as…
by Andy Kelly and Mark Andrews (@Gooner_AK) (@Royal Arsenal MRA) The eagle-eyed amongst you who have read through this season’s…