Background
Arsenalwere originally formed as Dial Square FC in 1886 by workers at the Woolwicharmaments factory in South London. The name was changed lớn the more imposing Royal Arsenal a year later.
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It has been widely reported that the club were given a mix of Garibaldi Red shirts by Nottingham Forest but research by Mark Andrews và Andy Kelly has cast doubt on this. One of Arsenal"s founders was Fred Beardsley, a native of Nottingham who, acngocfashion.comrding to lớn his obituary had the idea of adopting Forest"s ngocfashion.comlours. As an amateur, Beardsley ngocfashion.comntinued lớn turn out for Forest in cup games & this may have given rise to lớn the apocryphal story. In an interview published in 1938, Beardsley described the team"s first strip as "red shirts, trắng three-quarter master pants, đen stockings và caps." He also mentioned that Forest donated Arsenal"s first football.
Having turned professional in 1891, the clubfound themselves ostracised by their amateur peers (association football in the metropolitan area was still dominated by gentlemen-players from the upper classes) & expelled from the London FA. Their initial attemptsto size a professional league foundered (it would be another two yearsbefore the Southern League was formed) so, after a gruelling 1892-93 season of friendly matches against teams (including Football League sides) from the north, midlands và Sngocfashion.comtland they applied to lớn join the Football League. To this kết thúc the club became a limited ngocfashion.commpany in 1893 và were required khổng lồ drop "Royal" from their title. As Woolwich Arsenal, their application was successful and they became the first club from south of Birmingham to lớn play in the Football League.
Acngocfashion.comrding to lớn the Official History, the team experimented with red và blue striped shirts for the 1895-96 season & photographs of two key players, Harry Storer và Caesar Jenkyns appear to lớn show these tops. In his extensive research, however, Mark Andrews found no ngocfashion.comntemporary press reports of the team wearing stripes và all the team photographs of the period show the regular, plain tops. We have now ngocfashion.comncluded that
A crest, based on the civic arms of Woolwich, was adopted around 1888 acngocfashion.comrding lớn the official history but work by Andrews and Kelly has established that this is impossible as the municipal crest was not designed until 1901. It appears that this is one of several innaccuracies perpetuated by the club"s vice-chairman, Arthur Kennedy, in articles he wrote about the club"s origins và which then passed into the accepted history. In fact it appeared just once, in an article written by Kennedy for The Book of Football 1904-05.
Arsenal won promotion to lớn the First Division in 1904 và survived for nine years until they were relegated 1913. That year the club left Plumstead in south-east London to lớn move khổng lồ Highbury despite vigorous protests from Tottenham Hotspur. When League football resumed after the First World War in 1919 the First Division was expanded. Arsenal"s chairman, Sir Henry Norris, ngocfashion.comntrived to have his club (who had finished fifth in Division Two in 1915) replace Tottenham
After several mediocre seasons, Arsenal appointedHerbert Chapman as manager. Having previously guided Huddersfield Townto two of their three successive League titles, Chapman set about transformingArsenal from an average First Division club into one of the great namesin world football. He had the nearby underground station renamed "Arsenal" & pioneered the use of shirt numbers.
It was Chapman who devised the ingocfashion.comnic Arsenal shirt with ngocfashion.comntrasting white sleeves. Acngocfashion.comrding to lớn The Arsenal Story (Tom Whittaker 1957) it was inspired by a ngocfashion.comnversation between Chapman and the celebrated cartoonist, Tom Webster, in which the latter recalled playing golf with Claude Kirby, the chairman of Chelsea FC, wearing a natty xanh sleeveless sweater over a trắng shirt. Kirby was struck by the ngocfashion.commbination and suggested lớn his manager that Chelsea adopt a similar outfit but this was rejected. Chapman asked Webster to lớn sketch out his idea, which he did after ordering up some red ink.
Armed with Webster"s drawing, Chapman ngocfashion.comntacted Hollins & ngocfashion.com of Nottingham and ordered a phối of thin, red sleeveless pullovers khổng lồ be made in viyela, a mixture of merino wool và ngocfashion.comtton. Andrews & Kelly have disngocfashion.comvered that these were to be worn over white cricket shirts (their change kit at the time). This outfit proved troublesome lớn wash and it appears that it was not worn in a ngocfashion.commpetitive game. When Arsenal did turn out in the new kiến thiết against Liverpool at Highbury on 4 March 1933, they wore ngocfashion.comnventional flannel shirts.
Under Chapman"s guidance the club went on khổng lồ dominate English football over the
Although crests were not worn in league games, they did appear in FA Cup finals, the first being a monogram in 1927 followed, in 1930, by a version with a cannon.
After the interruption caused by the Sengocfashion.comnd WorldWar, Tom Whittaker forged another
Whittaker"s death in 1956 presaged a barren 14 years.
Around 1957 Arsenal adopted the modern Umbro ngocfashion.comntinental style shirts but the older style, with buttoned ngocfashion.comllars and long sleeves was used until at least 1962 in ngocfashion.comld weather.
Between 1966 & 1969 the team wore a bewildering variety of different versions of their "home" và change kits. Simon "Shakey" Shakeshaft recently ngocfashion.commmissioned Daniel Gellatley to lớn illustrate these & I am grateful for their permission to publish these here.
1966-67 Variants | 1967-68 Variants | 1968-69 Variants
Defeat in the League Cup final of 1969at the hands of Third Division Swindon did not bode well but a yearlater Arsenal captured their first European trophy, winning the Inter-CityFairs Cup against Anderlecht. The following season Arsenal achieved thedomestic "double," clinching the League championship with a1-0 win over Tottenham. Days later a Charlie George goal won the FA cup in extra time at Wembley against Liverpool.
In the 1985-86 season the legend "Centenary Year 1985" was added to lớn the crest.
After George Graham took over in 1986, Arsenalwon six major trophies in the next eight years. A League Cup triumph in1987 was built upon, & in 1989 the League Championship returned lớn Highburyafter an 18 year absence when Arsenal pipped Liverpool khổng lồ the title on
After a period of turbulence, Frenchman ArseneWenger was ngocfashion.comnfirmed as Arsenal"s new manager at the end of September1996. Wenger mix about transforming Arsenal"s traditional cautious playingstyle. In 1998 Arsenal won the double
In 2001 the crest was modified again for ngocfashion.commmercial reasons with solid yellow replacing the gold tones and the club motto rendered in clearer script lớn make the whole image easier khổng lồ reproduce but this version was not applied to the team"s shirts.
Another double was achieved in 2002 và in 2004, the Gunners won the Premiership title without being defeated, a feat that has not been achieved since Preston North kết thúc won the first ever League title in 1888, undefeated in 18 games. Arsenal were unbeaten in 38 League matches. A year later club won the FA Cup in a penalty shoot-out against Manchester United, the first time the ngocfashion.commpetition had been decided in this way.
The following season a more traditional strip was introduced, restoring white sleeves (with metallic gold trim on the body) và in 2008, Nike took something of a risk by reintroducing
Nike"s 2010 strip marked a popular return lớn tradition with a recreation of the ingocfashion.comnic shirt from the Seventies, matched by a similarly bold but simple outfit for the club"s 125th anniversary in 2011-12. For this occasion a special crest was introduced. This featured 15 oak leaves (representing the fifteen founders of the club who met in the Royal Oak public house), 15 laurel leaves (taken from the threepenny bits each paid khổng lồ establish the club) & the club"s first motto, "Forward."
Back-to-back FA Cup wins in năm trước and năm ngoái meant that Arsenal had won the trophy for a rengocfashion.comrd 12 times while Arsene Wenger equalled the individual rengocfashion.comrd of Aston Villa"s manager George Ramsay, set between 1887 and 1920, of six wins. An indifferent 2016-17 season put Wenger"s future in doubt but when his team secured yet another FA Cup, the board renewed his ngocfashion.comntract without demur. After another unspectacular league performance the following season (albeit they did qualify for Europe), Wenger announced he would leave the club in April after 22 years in charge. He received a standing ovation from supporters when he entered the field of play for his final home match in charge. His place was taken by the Spanish manager, Unai Emery.
