100 years in the First Division: how the match fixing scandal opened the door for Arsenal

by Tony Attwood As we saw at the end of the second part of this series on 2nd April, 1915, (Good Friday) Manchester Utd, played Liverpool and beat them 2-0.  This was a surprise as it was only Man U’s third win in the last ten.  In fact, in retrospect it was an even bigger turn …

The home and away issue – the player who can solve the problem

By Tony Attwood. Of course this might not be the first time one of the national papers in England has taken up my theme, but it is the first one I have seen: the idea that Arsenal deliberately play a different line up at home and away. The newspaper in question is the Daily Telegraph …