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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.
Episodes
6 episodes
Episode 6: Near Misses & the Years Between - Liam Brady, Three FA Cup Finals & Why Highbury Was Never Enough (1971–1986)
"Arsenal in the 1970s and early 80s were a club of extraordinary players and extraordinary frustration. Brilliant enough to reach finals, not quite brilliant enough to win them."The years between the 1971 Double and the return of George ...
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Episode 5 : The Long Wait - Eighteen Years Without a Title & the Double That Finally Arrived (1953–1971)
"Eighteen years. A generation of Arsenal supporters who had never seen a title. And then, on a Wednesday night at White Hart Lane, Ray Kennedy's goal made it all worthwhile."After 1953, Arsenal entered the most sustained trophy drought i...
Epside 4 : The Machine Rolls On - Five League Titles, a Second World War & the Last Great Season (1934–1953)
"Arsenal in the 1930s were the nearest thing English football had yet produced to an invincible machine. The rest of the country feared them. The rest of the country also resented them."When Chapman died in January 1934, Arsenal were in ...
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...
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...