Arsenal Football Club History

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On this day 6 may. Not a good day to play cup finals.

6 May 1916: Arsenal v Rest of London. Testimonial for Bob Benson. On 19 February he played in a London Combination match and although retired, made up the numbers. He collapsed on the pitch in the second half and died in the changing rooms a little later of a burst blood vessel. He was just 33.

6 May 1922: After a dismal season which included 5 consecutive defeats Arsenal rounded the league off with four wins and a draw in the last five to finish with Arsenal 1 Bradford C 0 and 17th place in the league.

6 May 1933: Herbert Chapman ended his final complete season with a 3-1 defeat at Sheffield U, having already won the league for the second time in three years.

**6 May 1939: Arsenal 2 Brentford 0. Last appearance for Eddie Hapgood and also Leslie Jones. The game was used in the film Arsenal Stadium Mystery. Although three matches were played for the 1939/40 season it was then abandoned and this was the last “official” league game until 31 August 1946 **

6 May 1953: Jackie Henderson first international cap. His international career was more or less over by the time he came to Arsenal in 1958, but he still delivered as a powerful forward.

6 May 1968: Ray Kennedy joined as an apprentice. He became an invaluable member of the 1970/1 Double side, but then moved on to Liverpool.

6 May 1972: Arsenal, the cup holders, lost the cup final to Leeds 0-1. There was a feeling that there were more triumphs to come but the club did not surface again as a challenger until the end of the decade.

6 May 1974: The friendly Kettering v Arsenal was played to celebrate opening of new stand. John Matthews first game. It also marked a link between the clubs going back to the 19th century.

6 May 1978: Arsenal lost the FA Cup final to Ipswich which they had been widely tipped to win. Ipswich approached the game claiming they had to play injured players to make up the numbers, but it was Arsenal who performed poorly to lose 1-0.
Shit year all round for me personally…

6 May 1990: Tony Adams crashed his car and was found to have four times the legal alcohol limit within his blood. He subsequently gave up drinking and set up the Sporting Chance Clinic to help others who suffered the same addiction.

6 May 1991: Arsenal 3 Man U 1. Arsenal had won the league before kick off with just one defeat and received a guard of honour from Man U. Supporters sang one song (in reference to the 2 point deduction) through the entire game as Alan Smith gained the first hat trick by any Arsenal player in the season.

6 May 1993: Sheffield W 1 Arsenal 0. First game for Gavin McGowan and Scott Marshall. McGowan had won the youth cup, and played seven league games. Marshall played 23 league games before moving on to Brentford.

6 May 1998: Liverpool 4 Arsenal 0, but Arsenal had celebrated as champions in Game 37 of the 2nd Double season having won the league the game before.

6 May 2000: Arsenal 2 Chelsea 1 meant Arsenal finished second, as Leeds and Liverpool failed to win their respective matches. Henry scored both to make him top league scorer for the season with 17 – exactly as Anelka had the previous season.

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Great to see another mention of the great Ray Kennedy . Absolutely brilliant player .
Crying shame he left to go to the scousers .

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On this day 7th may we said goodbye to THOF… A sad day indeed…

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If it was super duper high quality you’d be able to see me somewhere in there. Still got the t shirt they gave everyone.

I’m so glad I was there but it’s such a sad memory. It felt quite devastating to leave at the time, now it feels like it was even less worth moving :pensive:

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Wiltorrrrrrd!!! :sunglasses:

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17 May

The good: :smiley:

The bad: :sob:

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the day henry bottled it(twice)… shit trip all round,

We also won the FA Cup on this day in 2014, as my Facebook is sadly reminding me with a series of drunken past status updates :flushed:

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we met an old granny 80 years young(Hull fan) she didnt think she would be able to make the final as she didnt have anyone to take her/go with, 2 young lads did the honours and brought her… top draw .
this is her with 2 of my mates…

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check this page out if you havent already, updated the cup finals at wembley can read all the programmes.


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Nice and Updated :sunglasses:

Funny how the last six times we have won The FA Cup follows the same pattern! Win it two seasons in a row miss the next year and win it back the following year!! haha

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Just a shame we didn’t have an invincible season again in the year we missed in the sequence.

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Just watch spud wankers bleating how they’ve had more Wembley wins than Arsenal - presuming they get more than thirteen wins at home this season.

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Yeah but we’ve also won the semis at Wembley, so that gives us 16 wins there.

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League cups, semi against spuds, charity shields and the couple we managed to win in Europe too.

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The cunts haven’t won the FA Cup since 1991, I don’t even think that inbred bunch of idiots would be stupid enough to talk shit about their record at Wembley compared to ours.

Don’t underestimate them in that matter, Jakey.

@Shammy, A4TT: Oh yeah, but you get my drift.

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https://twitter.com/ArsenalCIassics/status/893445900965695490

What a fucking match. Best CL match at Highbury for me, atmosphere was electric. Have good memories of watching this on the TV. Fabregas was immense. He even retweeted the above tweet

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