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Gunners Through The Ages - A Brief History of Arsenal Football Club
There is a case to be made — and this podcast will make it — that no club in England has a richer, stranger, or more consequential history than Arsenal Football Club. Not the most successful, though they have been among the most decorated. Not the most supported, though they are among the most watched. But the most historically dense, the most institutionally interesting, the most revealing about what English football actually is and how it came to be the thing it is.
They began as workers. They moved across a city. They produced the first great football manager of the modern era. They won five league titles in a decade when football was still finding its shape. They spent three decades in the wilderness before one of the most dramatic title wins in history. They were transformed by a Frenchman who changed not just a football club but an entire culture. They went an entire league season unbeaten. And after years of patient reconstruction, they are once again hunting the prizes that define the truly great clubs.
Ten episodes. One hundred and forty years. This is their story.
Gunners Through The Ages - A Brief History of Arsenal Football Club
Latest Episodes
Episode 3: The Chapman Revolution - Herbert Chapman, the WM Formation & the Birth of Modern Management (1925–1934)
"Herbert Chapman did not just win football matches. He invented the profession of football management. The fact that he also turned Arsenal into the greatest club of their era is almost incidental."In June 1925, Herbert Chapman arrived a...
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Episode 2: "The Move - A Club Relocates, a War Intervenes & A Promotion That Changed History " · 1913–1925
The Move: Norris, Highbury & the Great Controversy1913–1925 · A Club Relocates, a War Intervenes & a Promotion That Changed History"Sir Henry Norris didn't save Arsenal out of love. He saved them out of ambition. It's a di...
Episode 1: Dial Square "From Woolwich to the Football League" · 1886–1913
"They came from a factory that made weapons. They built something that would outlast the empire it served."The story begins not in north London but in south-east London — or rather, in what was then Kent — in the enormous, sprawling comp...