On This Day In Arsenal's History

On This Day in 1966 Remi Garde was born in L'Arbresle, France. Garde joined Arsenal along with Patrick Vieira in 1996. The centre back came from Strasbourg and played in 43 matches (16 as a substitute), being used at either centre back, filling in for Lee Dixon at right back and at times as cover for Vieira or Emmanuel Petit. 

Constant niggling injury problems saw him retire from football in 1999 and after working as a pundit on French TV he joined his first club Lyon as a coach in 2003. 

On the 2nd of November 2015 Garde became manager of struggling Aston Villa but any hope of keeping them in the Premier League was soon all too apparently misguided.

On This Day In 1926 the Gunners got a 4-2 win over Blackburn Rovers. Billy Blyth, Alf Baker, Charlie Buchan and Herbert Lawson all got a goal a piece. Tom Parker (Pictured) made his debut today. 

It was the start of run where he would play 172 consecutive matches. 

After joining from Southampton for £3,250 he went on to amass 294 appearances and score 17 goals as a right back for the club. He retired as a player in 1933.

On This Day In 1971 Was the highest attendance of the season at Highbury when 62,087 spectators watched Arsenal beat Chelsea 2-0 with both goals coming from Ray Kennedy. 

This was League match 33 of the first Double season and start the run of 10 games in one month

1914 Today the word 'Woolwich' was officially dropped from the team name. We became 'The Arsenal'.

Early Days

On this day in 1872 left back Patrick Farrel was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Farrel spent one season with Woolwich Arsenal in 1897/1898 signing from Glasgow Celtic. He played 22 times and scored 3 goals before leaving or Brighton United.

At the Invicta Ground today in 1893 nearing the end of their final non-league season, Royal Arsenal lost to Grimsby Town. Despite two goals by Duncan Gemmell and one from Bernard Shaw it ended 3-5 to the Marriners.

The Manor Ground was the venue today in 1896 when Woolwich Arsenal played a friendly against Scottish side Dundee. Patrick O'Brien scored and Henry Boyd hit a brace for a 3-1 win for the English side.

This date in 1897 saw Woolwich Arsenal play a home fixture with Newton Heath. The Plumstead side failed to score and were defeated 0-2. Gavin Crawford had one reason to celebrate though as he became the first player to play in 100 matches for the club.