Arsenal History

Welcome back to the latest series of articles from Last Word on Football. This time we look back on the footballers who many class as Premier League Legends. These players were superstars in their time, and left their mark on the league, engraving their names in its illustrious history. Many of these greats inspired their […]

It is not difficult to select Arsenal’s greatest ever European triumph, because for all their domestic achievements (13 league titles and a record 13 FA Cup wins) the Gunners have only ever won two European trophies. That is a depressingly low number for one of the undoubted giants of the English game; indeed, it is […]

In one sense, David Dein does not belong on this list, as he was neither a manager nor a player, and yet it would be absurd to exclude him from any list of Arsenal’s greatest ever figures, such was his contribution to the Gunners. He was arguably the most important director or administrator in the […]

Welcome to the new series of articles from the Last Word on Football. This series looks at the grounds that are sadly no longer with us. Grounds that are famous not only in their particular country but also around the world. Grounds that will always hold a special place in the hearts of a particular […]

In the third of our new series, The Greatest: The Players, Managers and Matches That Made Arsenal, our resident football historian, Martin Keady, looks back at the greatest match in Arsenal’s history – Anfield 89. Anfield 89, when Arsenal won the league title with the last kick of the last game of the season, is […]

In the second of our new series, The Greatest: The Players, Managers and Matches That Made Arsenal, our resident football historian, Martin Keady, looks back at the career of Arsenal’s greatest ever player – Thierry Henry. As is the case with most football clubs, and especially the biggest clubs, there are several contenders for the […]

Over the last few weeks, the team at Last Word on Football has delivered its ‘Team of the Decade’ series where you can read about some wonderful squads. But, this article is the opposite of those. Today, we look at the WORST to play for north London side Arsenal from 2010-2019. This decade detailed Arsenal’s […]

In the absence of any professional football anywhere until at least the end of April, we at LWOF have been turning to the past for inspiration – and content.  Consequently, in a new series, our resident historian, Martin Keady, looks at The Greatest: The Players, Managers and Matches That Made Arsenal. He begins with the […]

Our latest edition of Transfer Rumours looks at the latest from around world football. Including, Julian Weigl. Could the German star be heading to Spain?

To coin a phrase, Arsenal’s next Premier League match away at Leicester City this Saturday is increasingly looking like “do or die” for Unai Emery. And unlike Boris Johnson, who did not manage to get Britain out of the EU on 31 October (despite his promise to do so), Emery may not get another chance […]

It was impossible to tell who was the more relieved after Arsenal finally got a stoppage-time winner to defeat Vitoria in the Europa League. Was it Nicolas Pepe, whose brace of brilliant free-kicks suggested that he could finally justify his £72 million price-tag? Or was it his manager, Unai Emery, who must have been fearing […]

The best news that Arsenal fans have had recently is that Rob Holding is now back in first-team training after the serious knee injury that he sustained against Manchester United last December. Holding may never quite live up to the “Burnley Cannavaro” nickname that Arsenal fans have already given him, but he is nevertheless a […]

There is no exact opposite of “the gift that keeps on giving”. “The takeaway that keeps on taking” just does not have the same connotation of something that is so utterly useless that over time it just becomes ever more useless. But perhaps the closest that we can get is the 2019 Europa League Final […]

The Arsenal defence against Cardiff City earlier this week was Stephan Lichtsteiner, Shkodran Mustafi, Sead Kolasinac and Nacho Monreal, and with injuries having ruled out all of Arsenal’s other defenders (either temporarily or for the long term) there is every chance that the same back four will take the field against Manchester City this weekend. […]

Noam Chomsky, the great American linguist and theorist, once said that if the average American’s understanding of the complex mathematics of baseball could only be applied to other areas of life, then America would be a nation of mathematicians. The same is true of football and the rest of the world; if the average football […]