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Gunners Through The Ages - A Brief History of Arsenal Football Club

by Trevor Daivid Delves

There is a case to be made — and this podcast will make it — that no club in England has a richer, stranger, or more consequential history than Arsenal Football Club. Not the most successful, though they have been among the most decorated. Not the most supported, though they are among the most watched. But the most historically dense, the most institutionally interesting, the most revealing about what English football actually is and how it came to be the thing it is.They began as workers. They moved across a city. They produced the first great football manager of the modern era. They won five league titles in a decade when football was still finding its shape. They spent three decades in the wilderness before one of the most dramatic title wins in history. They were transformed by a Frenchman who changed not just a football club but an entire culture. They went an entire league season unbeaten. And after years of patient reconstruction, they are once again hunting the prizes