Posted in Club History on Jul 8th, 2023
TTG’s recent piece on the most impactful transfers of his lifetime made me think about where the £2,000 Herbert Chapman paid for Cliff ‘Boy’ Bastin in the summer of 1929 would rank. Less than seven months earlier, Chapman had shattered the British transfer record by buying David Jack from Bolton Wanderers for £10,647, making him […]
Posted in Club History on Jun 24th, 2023
The most important transfers in the last 60 years at Arsenal Embed from Getty Images The close season is a time for reflection, nostalgia and expectation. While the transfer market appears to be hotting up and Arsenal are linked with a host of players, I thought I would take a personal view of the transfer […]
Posted in Club History on Mar 24th, 2023
Embed from Getty Images I take such pleasure from Dr F.’s literary contributions to this fine establishment that when he suggested during the World Cup that I pen a monograph on Herbert Chapman for this interlull, it would have been ungenerous to decline. So, with the editor’s indulgence, here goes. Herbert Chapman was our first […]
Posted in Club History, Interlull on Dec 7th, 2022
Embed from Getty Images The last time we were top of the league at Christmas and went on to win the title was in 1947. Few, if any, in this bar, save Dr F.’s interlocutor in the previous, most excellent post, will remember that Christmas. American crooner Buddy Clark topped the UK pop charts with An […]
Posted in Club History, Interlull, Waffle on Dec 3rd, 2022
Outside the train window I could see a vast expanse of olive groves interspersed with stretches of gently undulating pastures, deserted but not desolate. I had fallen asleep with my head leaning back towards the empty aisle seat next to mine, and as I opened my eyes the landscape outside was the first thing I […]
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