Sol Campbell
Arsenal 2 Real Mallorca 0
Kufstein, Austria
A full 15 years ago. How time flies!
Arsenal 2 Real Mallorca 0
Kufstein, Austria
A full 15 years ago. How time flies!
Arsenal 8 Kristianstads 1
Kristianstad, Sweden
How is it possible? – 21 years ago!!!
Today we launch a new page on the website:
Over the last few years we’ve discovered that Arsenal’s history isn’t quite how many historians have recorded it. We’ve written a number of blogs explaining what is wrong and how it came about; some stories have been misinterpreted whilst some have been complete fiction!
There are also some stories that don’t appear to be true but actually are, so we’ve given more detail about them.
Now we have started to collate them into one place so that they are easily accessible.
You can access the page via the menu at the top of any page on the website.
There are still more myths that we know of and we will be adding them to the page as we write about them.
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By Mark Andrews and Andy Kelly
Back in 2014 Benfica were one of the teams invited to play in The Emirates Cup. We were asked by Andy Exley to write about one of Arsenal’s previous games against Benfica – the pre-season “friendly” in 1971.
Previously we published a short blog based on EC Williamson and his work at Regents Park with St Dunstan’s.
Looking into the story it became apparent that while Williamson was the torch bearer for the charity, the club as a whole gave great assistance in the few years after the First World War.
One of the stories about Arsenal that Tottenham fans like dredge up due to their seemingly perpetual inferiority complex is that the Middlesex club were relegated in 1928 because Arsenal deliberately lost games to ensure this happened.
Even worse is that it gets an airing in some histories written about Arsenal, even the club’s official history!
So, is it true? Of course not.