Next year (2025) Arsenal will experience a major anniversary. An anniversary of such gigantic importance it deserves not just recognition but also significant celebrations.
It is the anniversary of an event that transformed Arsenal from a 1st division club which had not, and continued to have no chance of, winning a major trophy, and whose main objective (not always reached) was midtable survival.
It’s a hundred years since he became Arsenal manager, a man who transformed Arsenal from a struggling club to a dominant force in English football.
But his story is a fascinating one. Why would he leave a club at which he was so stunningly successful (Huddersfield)
b) Why would he go to Arsenal – a club that had won nothing and if anything was going downhill when apparently the owner (Norris) said that managers who just wanted to buy players should not apply?
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