Showing posts sorted by:
Last Activity
Upvotes
Number Of Comments
You are not logged in!
Join Arsenal Report today to improve your experience using the site with thread subscriptions + custom profile with cover image and favourite XI + the ability to post comments, polls and AMA questions.
On this day 20 February
-
First recorded use of nickname "The Gunners"
1904
Woolwich Arsenal's nickname is primarily "reds" at this stage, but after an away game against Bradford in February 1904, a match report in local newspaper Yorkshire Sports becomes the earliest recorded reference to the term "The Gunners": > No football event of any kind in Bradford ever excited more interest and was looked forward to with more eagerness than this visit of the famous Gunners of Woolwich

years
00
days
00
hours
00
minutes
00
seconds
00
...since Tottenham won the league