RIP Alex Manninger - his performances in 1997-98 were nothing short of heroic.

On this day 1979, Arsenal condemned Chelsea to relegation again (so many times we've lost count) with a 5-2 win at Highbury. No oligarch money to bail out West London's paupers back then. Full programme on The Arsenal Collection. thearsenalcollection.org.uk?page_id=41075

Today's Arsenal birthdays: 1880 - Ike Tomlinson (1903 - 1904) 1888 - Billy Minter (1905 - 1906) 1977 - Freddie Ljungberg (1998 - 2007 player, 2018 - 2019 coach, 2019 caretaker manager) 1995 - Ramy Bensebaini (2013)

I notice that the non-Arsenal football fans have moved on from wanting the rules regarding corners being changed. It seems they now want points / qualification awarded for entertainment.

Can we put our players into some sort of deep sleep stasis for the next three days?

Lucky old Real Madrid fans getting to watch 10 goals across two entertaining games where the lead swung back and forth, eh?

OTD 1950, Arsenal wore old gold shirts for the first time in their home game against Newcastle so that the players could get used to them ahead of the FA Cup final two weeks later. It worked a treat as they won both games; "luckily" beating Newcastle 4-2. thearsenalcollection.org.uk?page_id=47153

PL table on 1st January 2026. If Man City win their game in hand they will have made up 1 point on Arsenal in 13 games.

Today's Arsenal birthdays: 1899 - Jock Robson (1921 - 1926) 1923 - Bill Dickson (1953 - 1956) 1934 - David Herd (1954 - 1961) 1986 - Quincy Owusu-Abeyie (2002 - 2006)

Today's Arsenal birthdays: 1858 - Sir Frederick Wall (1934 - 1938 director) 1937 - George Dooler (1954 - 1958) 1939 - John Hughes (1959 - 1960) 1985 - Michal Papadopulos (2003 - 2004)

OTD 1976 Arsenal beat Wolves 2-1 to reach the heady heights of 13th in the table. Terry Mancini scored his only goal for Arsenal; a goal which guaranteed First Division survival in an awful season. It was my first time in the Clock End. thearsenalcollection.org.uk?page_id=31639

‼️7pm Tonight ‼️ Join me @Hillsygooner and Stefan from The Northbank Podcast We will discuss lots tonight obviously the result this weekend but more over the 2 huge games we have this week We will get behind our team www.youtube.com/live/sZWOp2C...

Today's Arsenal birthdays: 1940 - Frank O'Neill (1958 - 1961) 1988 - Shabazz Baidoo (2002 - 2003) 2002 - Karl Hein (2018 - )

How will Donald Trump's blockade of the Straits of Hormuz work? Will he sink ships that attempt to pass through?

If Man City are going to be deducted 60 points, maybe the PL could deduct 10 this season and 50 next season.

Odds for next Middlesex manager when de Zerbi is sacked after 3 straight defeats: Evens - Ryan Mason 3/1 - David Pleat 7/1 - Harry Redknapp 10/1 - Thomas Frank 1000/1 - any half decent manager

Come on Granit, do it for your old mates.

With 6-8 games left to play, here are the Premier League current form tables for the last 5 & 10 games.

OTD 1913: the darkest day in Arsenal's history as they are relegated for the only time ever. They lost 1-2 at home to Derby with a typical display of being poor in front of goal and their only goal being walked into the net. They finished the season with just 3 wins in 38 league games.

A couple of fantastic moustaches in today's Arsenal birthdays: 1871 - Roger Ord (1897 - 1900) 1873 - Jack Graham (1895 - 1900) 1886 - Joe Dines (1910) 1905 - Herbert Lawson (1924 - 1927)

Arsenal taking us back to the good old days. youtu.be/mEWFigyE8R0?...

If we win the league this year it will be more of a blessed relief than a cause for celebration. Anyway, COME ON YOU RIP ROARING REDS!!!!

You just know that Lewis-Skelly will get booked for his first foul now matter how innocuous it is.

Today's Arsenal birthdays: 1845 - James Cavey (1893 - 1898 director no photo) 1900 - Alf Moody (1922 - 1924) 1927 - Lionel Boardman (1946) 1941 - Chris McMullen (1957 no photo)

Upper Holloway 1914 Looking at today’s cover you’ll see there’s a football connection! But there’s more to it than #Arsenal, the old ground here & the new Emirates nestled into Drayton Park road. Our excellent introduction takes us on a ride through the transport & theatrical story of the area too.

Hang it in The Louvre

COME ON YOU IRONS!!!!

Today's Arsenal birthdays: 1871 - George Buist (1896 - 1897 no photo) 1904 - Arthur Meeson (1928) 1926 - Vic Carter (1948 - 1950 no photo) 1931 - Billy Duffy (1948 - 1950) 2008 - Ceadach O'Neill (2024 - )

RIP Afrika Bambaataa. I wasn't a massive fan but liked quite a bit of his stuff, particularly World Destruction.

Not sure who had the biggest balls - him for the way he nicked her bag or her for taking £2.2m worth of nick-nacks to the pub. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Eric Doughty spent 8 years at Arsenal playing 242 games in the reserves and A team. He joined Plymouth and made his first team debut against Hull when disaster struck. This post from 2 years ago explains. pasoti.co.uk/threads/a-sp...

Today's Arsenal birthdays: 1915 - George Marks (1936 - 1946) 1918 - Pat Kelly (1942 - 1945 guest) 1924 - John Holland (1945 - 1951) 1924 - Arthur Shaw (1948 - 1955)

Trump is a lot smarter than we thought. He's actually managed to get the Epstein files off the front pages.

Today's Arsenal birthdays: 1900 - Mark Greveson (1921 - 1922 no photo) 1900 - Harry Pringle (1921) 1947 - Doug Baker (1963 - 1966) 1961 - Brian McDermott (1977 - 1984) 1992 - Mat Ryan (2021)

Eleven more of them and I'll be happy. Mentally exhausted and a bag of nerves, but happy.

OTD 1980 Arsenal fielded a weakened team in the NLD due to a fixture pile up. The Gunners won 2-1 with goals from Paul Vaessen & Alan Sunderland, and Paul Davis made his debut. Full programme on The Arsenal Collection website thearsenalcollection.org.uk?page_id=3754

Today's Arsenal birthdays: 1933 - Ernie Walley (1965 - 1969 coach) 1946 - George Ley (1963) 1986 - Michael Jordan (2001 - 2005) 1994 - Philip Roberts (2010 - 2013)

Arsenal won their last 6 PL games of the 2023-24 season with a fair chunk of the players that are here this season.

Today's Arsenal birthdays: 1878 - John 'Sailor' Hunter (1904 - 1905) 1888 - Ernest Hanks (1912 - 1913) 1899 - Tom Hawkings (1922 - 1923 no photo) 1929 - Mike Berry (1949 - no photo) 1963 - Nelson Still (1985) 1988 - Fabrice Muamba (2003 - 2006)

No mention of the famous 2003 final between Southamptan and, er, ... I'm not quite sure what's happened.

At least West Ham can concentrate on catching Middlesex in the league now.

Turned off when dirty Leeds went two up as I thought it was game over. Just checked the score.

Today's Arsenal birthdays: 1883 - Messina 'Dick' Allman (1916 - 1917 guest) 1920 - Albert Gilbert (1947 no photo) 1975 - John Hartson (1995 - 1997)

At least we can concentrate on the league now.

Ironically not enough Liverpool fans left to sing YNWA.

Max Dowman is related to Arsenal legend George Male. Maybe one day we'll see Max up on the Emirates stadium. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Today's Arsenal birthdays: 1904 - Archie Clark (1927 - 1928) 1907 - Alf Haynes (1928 - 1933) 1929 - Mike Tiddy (1955 - 1958) 1939 - Peter Kane (1960 - 1963)

As always, when we share a new Shoot!, we share the player profile This week! Ray Kennedy of Arsenal! He loves Whicker's World (From Shoot! - 23 & 30th September 1972) #Shoot #shootmagazine #Arsenal #AFC #ArsenalFC

Today's Arsenal birthdays: 1872 - Patrick Farrell (1897 - 1898) 1898 (not 1899!) - David Jack (1928 - 1934) 1902 - Edward Humpish (1930) 1925 - John Ollerenshaw (1946 - 1950)