Here are today’s anniversaries…. 24 June 1905: Arsenal’s AGM reported the annual income from the rent of the bars in the Manor Ground as £110 5s 0d. (£110.25 – about £13,000 today) 24 June 1949: Bryn Jones transferred to Norwich as player coach. He remained there for just two years before returning to north London …
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The anniversaries for today 23 June 1914: The RAF was established. 23 June 1953: Alf Haynes died. He played 29 games as a centre half under Herbert Chapman. Later he ran a newsagents in Oxford and wrote a sports column for the local newspaper and kept his connections with Arsenal under Tom Whittaker, acting as a scout. …
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The anniversaries for 22 June. Today’s headline comes from 1925, 22 June 1893: The first AGM of Woolwich Arsenal was held under the chairmanship of Jack Humble; as the club’s first directors were elected ahead of entry into the Football League for the first time. Humble later took a break as an Arsenal director but …
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By Tony Attwood We have not got Untold Arsenal back online. The layout is not perfect as yet but the site is back and functioning, so this site can return to its function of covering Arsenal’s history on this day. 21 June 1919: Admiral Ludwig von Reuter, fearful that the German fleet might …
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Also today: one of the most eccentric interviews with a football manager ever – see 1921 Apologies if you are also a reader of Untold Arsenal: our upgrade has caused us more problems that we would have liked, but we are back in operation. You can reach us directly at www.untold-arsenal.co.uk at the moment, …
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If you are a regular Untold Arsenal reader and have come here looking for an explanation, we have an upgrade going on, with Untold Arsenal and it is causing some problems. We hope to be up and running again shortly. Meanwhile here are the anniversaries for 17 June 17 June 1895: William Blyth, the man who …
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90 Years Ago Today – today’s headline is from 16 June 1934 16 June 1917: With newspapers forbidden from writing anything about the war other than (often invented) victories on the battlefield, the local newspaper in Fulham started a long running series of attacks on the Borough’s mayor, Henry Norris following the flooding of local …
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We have written about Reg Tricker in the past on this site – a link to the article is below, but in essence we know he came from India, was signed by Chapman and eventually moved on to Margate. We also know that Arsenal had strong links with Margate and used them as a …
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