A hardcover book with original dust jacket, 212 pages, approx: 130x210mm, 391g
Forward, Arsenal! A History of Arsenal Football Club.
The Arsenal Story: 1866-1953.
By Bernard Joy, former Arsenal and England amateur centre-half, with a foreword by Tom Whittaker.
Illustrated with 59 photographic plates.
Published with the approval and co-operation of Arsenal Football Club by Phoenix House Ltd, this book being the second reprinted edition dated 1954. The first edition and first reprint were both dated 1952.
Bernard Joy was an amateur international footballer with Corinthian-Casuals and a member of Arsenal's first team. After his playing career he became a journalist and at the time of writing Forward, Arsenal, he was the Football Correspondent for The Star. His passion for the club is clear from the outset and this concise history includes many scarce photographic illustrations, collected and collated by Joy. The dust jacket flap states:
"In vivid style he (the author) tells the story of the Arsenal from its humble beginnings nearly seventy years ago as an amateur works team, through the move to Highbury and its mid-period struggles, to the time when new tactics and showmanship endowed the team with a glamour which has not faded in twenty-five years, and into whose hands the glittering prizes of football have fallen time and again."
CONTENTS:
Foreword by Tom Whittaker
Acknowledgements by Bernard Joy
List of Plates
Introduction
Part 1: Royal Arsenal Reds
Origins
The Leading Club In the South
Early Struggles, but Promotion Gained
Good Results Badly Supported
Part 2: From Woolwich to Highbury
Enter a Soccer Czar
Desperate Days in the First Division
Part 3: Chapman At the Helm
Herbert Chapman Takes Over
Shaping New Tactics
Arsenal Get Alex James - and the Cup
The Record Season 1930-31
A Magnificent Failure
Competition Stiffens
Death of Herbert Chapman
Chapman's Greatness
Part 4: Top Of the Tree
Ted Drake's Season
Arsenal Win Their Grimmest Final
The Changing Scene at Highbury
Neck-and-Neck Race With Wolves
The Bryn Jones Gamble
Part 5: The Second World War - And After
The Ravages of War
Mercer and Rooke to the Rescue
Whittaker's Triumph
Part 6: Team Building Goes On
Luck and Pluck in the Cup
Still Forward!
Arsenal's Internationals and Tours Abroad
Behind the Scenes
Appendices: The Arsenal Records
Records Held or Shared by Arsenal
Arsenal Distinctions
Record in the F.A. Challenge Cup
Record in the Football League
Record in the Football Combination
International Honours
Football League Honours
- List of Plates:
- The Arsenal Team 1888-89
- The Arsenal Team 1889-90
- Harry Storer and Caesar Llewellyn Jenkyns
- The Arsenal Team 1895-96
- Arsenal v Manchester United and v Newcastle, 1906
- Semi[final of the Southern Charity Cup, 1906
- Second Round F.A. Cup tie, 1909
- The Arsenal Team 1905-06
- The Arsenal team which lost to Fulham, 1913
- Joe Shaw and Bill McCracken (Newcastle's captain)
- A break in training
- The Arsenal team 1920-21
- Jock Robson in action, 1923
- Charlie Buchan practising
- The Final against Cardiff, 1927
- The first Cup-winning team
- Graf Zeppelin over Wembley, 1930
- Alex James, Jimmy Sharp
- Cliff Bastin, Doug Lishman
- Jimmy Ashcroft, David Jack
- Eddie Hapgood, Joe Mercer
- Arsenal v Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, 1930-31 season
- The disputed goal of the 1932 Final
- The team which completed the Championship hat-trick, 1932-35
- Alex James in Action
- Wilson and Roberts in a League match at Highbury, 1936
- The 1936 Final
- Fourth Round v Wolves, 1938
- Drake in action
- Drake playing against Italy at Highbury, 1934
- Seven Arsenal men in the England team against Italy
- The Arsenal Team, 1938-39
- Floodlit football at Highbury, 1951
- Arsenal v Rangers, mid-week attendance in 1936
- Arsenal v Charlton, 1938
- Bomb damage at the Arsenal ground
- Ronnie Rooke's first goal for Arsenal
- Swindin with his "jockey" cap from Norway
- Arsenal v Liverpool in the 1950 Final
- The men who won the Cup in 1950
- Selecting the team
- The Arsenal changing room
- Bust of Herbert Chapman in Arsenal entrance hall
- The team which came nearest to the "Double" this century
- Arsenal v Chelsea, 1952
- Smith in action in the 1952 Final
- Arsenal v Newcastle United: Stills from the "Universal Newsreel"
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This copy of Forward, Arsenal! is in good condition, within a fair dust jacket. Estimated value in this condition is £45.00