adam-salter4.bsky.social
Arsenal Women fan and lover of football history. Writer for @thehalfwayline.bsky.social and @beyondthepitch.bsky.social. Currently in the process of rewriting Wikipedia. Was once called the Modern Day Shakespeare of Women’s Football
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Didn’t you work with Lotte Wubben-Moy as well?
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Looking forward to listening to this! I assume there is a reason Francis Jeffers is absent?
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I remember reading about this in Jon Spurling’s book and having a right chuckle about how it played out. Can’t wait to hear you two pick it apart. 😀
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Assuming that would have been the one installed above the West Stand, that would have been fine. I remember seeing Charlton Athletic post highlights of one of their Cup games against us at Meadow Park, and that’s all it was. One camera, no comms.
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Criminal that the club never released highlights of that game. Criminal.
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If I was a football agent, I’d get all my clients to follow the Arsenal Instagram account for absolutely no reason. Would send the fanbase into meltdown.
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What’s known as the ‘Russo’ justification. Probably also explains why Wenger was so keen to sign Vardy…
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It’s so nice not to have to worry about the qualifiers, especially as it’s a tournament summer this year. Instead, we get to hate watch Man United and hope they slip up 😅. Although that being said, are you going to miss travelling out and covering those games?
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I was able to detail's Arsenal's path back to 1987 on Wikipedia, but that is but one strand of the greater tapestry. Others need to do the same for their clubs, to write out their past seasons as well, so we can weave them all together and view the complete story of the history of the game.
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There are so many clubs who have their own successes and failures, who have tread a path that has yet to be illuminated by the spotlight of the present day. Now, we can be that spotlight. We can shine a light on their stories. We can track their path through the league.
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Brilliant piece Beth. Echoes a lot of the sentiments I felt after having spent just a brief spell near coal fire.
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Draper’s Dune?
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Wow! Thanks Orbinho, much appreciated! 😄
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We’re in the market for programmes from the mid-90s. Hopefully you’ll get the 1995-96 and 1997-98 seasons on the site. That will allow us to plug some of the gaps we have in our data 😀
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Thank you so much for setting this up Andy. It’s been an absolute gold mine of intel to use for the history project I’ve been collaborating on, we wouldn’t have been able to have got this far without it! I hope that one day you get every Arsenal programme on that site. 🙏
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Compare that with today: ‘We go again’
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I am indeed an Arseblog patron, so I’ll absolutely give this a read!
It was great meeting up with Andy, never realised he had been at the club for so long!
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Loved this Tim, thanks! I always get a programme whenever I go to a home game. Not just for some pre-game reading, but it provides a historical anchor to that point in time. And as I’ve since discovered, the content in older programmes (ie Women’s Team match reports) is like gold-dust!
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I think that might be it, I have a red number and a women’s number. I’m guessing you didn’t?
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Ok, that’s interesting. I have a men’s red membership and an Arsenal Women’s membership. I did not get this email.