Reply With QuoteIf you don't mind me asking, of course. Just curious as to the types that'd do such a lovely present.
and delivered me a stock of old arsenal v Tottenham programmes. Which is really very nice.
Amongst many gems the following extract from a letter to the then manager in the 1951 programme
Dear Mr Whittaker
This is the first time I have ever written to a football club. But on Saturday my young brother and I went along to Maine Road to see the Manchester City v. Arsenal match. We haven't stopped talking about the superlative football, ball control and teamwork which your team displayed. I am a keen Manchester United fan and you will agree that I should know what good football is. But Arsenal seem to be able to do what United and Spurs do, without any dashing about and without any effort at all. We were too young to see pre-war football but when we have seen Arsenal since, it's easy to see how they achieved their brilliant record in the past and on Saturday's form they are sure to win the cup or championship this season....
The letter from a T.Corless in Manchester ends with a PS asking to join the Arsenal Supporters Club.
If you don't mind me asking, of course. Just curious as to the types that'd do such a lovely present.
I thought working for myself was the way out but you actually get more of that festive forced jollity nonsense, if anything
a few times (early 1930s)
I could be wrong bur I believe they are the oldest English football club
Not United or Wednesday. I only know because I done a mini-documentary on it once
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