Introduction
We have all heard about Arsenal football club or the Gunners, one of Englands most succesful clubs throughout history. The club is based in Holloway, London, and was founded in Woolwich 1886 as Dial Square. Arsenal has won a total of 13 first division titles, including the Premier League, 10 FA cups, 2 league cups, 12 community shields, 1 european cup winners’ cup and Inter-cities fair cup. The Gunners has a remarkable record, namely for most consecutive seasons in the English top flight.
Every team has a long-standing rivalry with another team, and Arsenal’s rivals through history are North London neighbours Tottenham Hotspur. The match between these two clubs are therefor called the North London derby.
Valued more than $1.3 billion, Arsenal is the fourth most valuable association football club in the world as of the year 2013, behind Real Madrid, Manchester United and Barcelona.
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History of Arsenal F.C. (1886–1966)
The origins of the London based club can be tracked back to the late 1800s to a group of workers at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich, south-east of London. Later that year, the workers assembled to form the club Dial Square, as it was named in the beginnings, which had its origins from the workshop most of the workers worked at. The club was shortly afterwards renamed to Royal Arsenal. Another rename to Woolwich Arsenal took place in 1893, as a result of the club becoming a limited company.
The collection of the players was done by David Danskin, who managed to get hold of Notthingham Forests former goalkeeper, Fred Beardsley, and the one to later become a...
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...finished 9th.
A few years after that, Arsenal generally performed a mid-table performance, until the arrival of the first professional manager, Harry Bradshaw, which coincided with the team finishing as runners-up to Preston, and by that, gaining promotion to the first division. Arsenal’s match record that year, was winning all but two home matches, with a goals record of 67 scored goals and 5 admitted (91-22 overall).
The promotion lead to the arrival of the new manager Phil Kelso, who managed to take the team to the semi-finals of the FA cup two consecutive years, but lost both against Newcastle United in 1906 and Sheffield Wednesday 1907. Just as a few years ago, the team stayed in the mid-table, until relegation was avoided by two points in the 1909/10 season. During that time, while the club was near a bankrupt, the chairman of Fulham football club took over.
club high four game winning streak. Tony Campbell set an club high scoring record by getting
44 losses on the strength of a league-leading 2.23 team ERA, which was more than three-quarters
including Rod Scurry, John Milner, and Kevin Koch. Ironically, these players were involved in the
Most European cities can boast of a professional football (soccer) club and a competitive rivalry with a neighboring team. However, Glasgow, Scotland is the home of one of the oldest and most heated rivalries in the world. Two of the most prestigious football clubs in Europe, Celtic and Rangers, both call Glasgow their home. The cross-town rivals first met on the pitch on February 28, 1888. At that point, "none of the 2,000 spectators at the game could have guessed that they were present at a historic occasion, for that evening marked the first of what was to become the most famous, long-lasting – and bitter – sporting rivalry in the history of football" (Murray 4). Almost a hundred years after the inaugural match, the conflict between fans came to fruition when Celtic and Rangers met in the 1980 Scottish Cup Final. Immediately following an entertaining and relatively problem free match, built up tension exploded into violent riots before anyone had even le! ft the stadium. Celtic supporters, excited after the victory, rushed the field to celebrate with their beloved players. Angered by the loss and the expression of joy shown by their nemesis, Rangers fans also rushed the field. However,
WHEN: They were founded in 1949, but the Hermens actually started the company in 1897
under a different name of the Top Hat. Tony Smith started the company as a
had a long term but he surely is one of the most remembered and inspirational
known as the Norman keep as it was the Normans who built it. The keep
Pelé's first show came on September 7, 1956, when he played in place of the center forward Del Vecchio. He came into the game to score the sixth of the seven goals in the 7-1 Santos victory. He scored his goal on the 36th minute, in a play between Raimundinho and Tite. The ball was given to Pelé in the box, and even though he was surrounded by defenders, he shot on goal and the ball went under goalkeeper Zaluar's body. Zaluar became famous as the first goalkeeper to take a goal from the great Pelé. From there, the trip to the summit was fast. In his first league game with Santos, he scored four goals. The next season, he was a re...
Of course we did not win every game that season, but we definitely played our best as a team. When I stepped up to lead the team, the leadership became contagious. Others saw how great it was to be
The novel “Football Factory”, by John King, follows a group of Chelsea hooligans in England. Tommy is an almost 30 years old male, a Chelsea fan, and a football hooligan. He has no other relatives than his gr...
city rivals, we were able to come together as a family, get our heads right mentally, and
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In ultimately, Pele had a world cup performance in 1958. He also won the world cup in the same year. He had jubilation (a feeling of extreme joy) when he won. People also think Pele has better prosperity (more luck) than most. Pele accomplished an exceptional many goals in his life. During, Pele’s career, he scored a total of 1,283 goals through 1954 to 1977. This is a quote from Pele “Football is the only sport where you put people together. It doesn't matter if you are rich, or poor, or black, or white. It is one nation. This is the beauty of football.”
in the third round of the F.A Cup for a place in the fourth round