Arsenal Football Club

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Arsenal Football Club
Arsenal (full name is Arsenal Football Club, also known as The Arsenal or The Gunners) is an English football club founded in 1886 and develops in the championship of England football. Arsenal won 13 championships, 10 cups in England, a Cup of Cups and one UEFA Cup, but there are still no success in the Champions League, despite a final in 2006, the first for a London club.

Established in 1913 in the Highbury stadium in north London, the club has installed in 2006 in a brand new enclosure 60 000 places: the Emirates Stadium at Ashburton Grove. There is a very old and deep rivalry with neighbours Tottenham, with whom they compete for the North London derby each year.

History
Arsenal was founded under the name of Dial Square FC in 1886 by workers of the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich, and renamed the Royal Arsenal shortly afterwards. The club finally adopted the name Woolwich Arsenal after obtaining their professional status in 1891.

The Gunners began in the Football League Second Division, and were promoted to First Division Football League in 1904. However, the club experienced financial problems because of low affluences in matches, favoured by its geographical isolation. In 1913, shortly after their relegation to Second Division, the Gunners crossed the Thames to settle in a new stadium in Highbury, north London. At this change also came a new name: Arsenal FC. The club finished only 5th in 1919, but was elected back in the first division following the passage of the championship to 22 clubs, much to the chagrin of his rivals premises: Tottenham Hotspur. Since Arsenal is never dropped a lower division.

In 1925 the talented Herbert Chapman became the coach of Arsenal. He had already won the championship with Huddersfield Town Football Club in 1924 and 1925, and Arsenal owes its first period of major successes. His training methods and tactics described as revolutionary, as well as players such as Alex James and Cliff Bastin, are the source of domination by the club in English football in 1930. Between 1930 and 1938, Arsenal won the championship five times and twice cut. However Chapman died of pneumonia in 1934 and was unable to attend the coronation of his work. He was still time to rename the subway station Gillespie Road to Arsenal, the only stop in London bearing the name of a football club.

After the suspension of the championship during the World War II, Arsenal won the League in 1948 and 1953 and the FA Cup in 1950. Despite these successes, the club could not find players of the quality of those who made up its workforce in the years 1930, and won trophies few years before 1960. Even the former team captain of England football, Billy Wright, has never enjoyed success as manager of Arsenal.

The second golden era began in 1966 with the arrival of physiotherapist Bertie Mee as manager. After two League Cup finals lost, they won the cup Cities Exhibition, their first European trophy in 1970. This victory was followed by their first league-cup double in England in 1971. Despite these successes, the 1970 decade was characterized by a large number of missed appointments. They finished second championship in 1973, lost three cup finals in England (1972, 1978 and 1980) and were defeated in the finals of the Cup Winners' Europe cuts in 1980 as a result of the test firing the goal. The only major success of the club at that time was a victory in the FA Cup in 1979 gained at the last minute of the final between Manchester United.

The return of former player George Graham as manager in 1986 brought a third period of glory. Arsenal won the League Cup in 1987, from his first season at the club. The 1989 championship was ripped through a victory on a goal included in the last minute in the last match of the season played on the ground of their challenger Liverpool. The boring Arsenal (Boring Arsenal) was once sacred in 1991, not conceding a single defeat, and successfully doubled the FA Cup and League Cup in 1993. Finally Arsenal won thanks to Graham a second European trophy in 1994, the Europe Cup Winners' Cups. However, the reputation of George Graham was tarnished when it was revealed that the agent Rune Hauge had paid commissions on signing some players. He was dismissed in 1995 and suspended for one year by the English federation.

The success of the club from the late 1990 owe much to recruit the coach french Arsène Wenger in 1996. It brought a new tactical approach, a new training regimen and several foreign players (including players french) complétèrent the actual departure. Arsenal managed two new cutting-lined championship in 1998 and 2002, the club also won the FA Cup in 2003 and 2005. In 2004 Arsenal was crowned champion by not losing any match, and ported the record of invincibility in Premier League to 49 games in a row. With this performance, the club is nicknamed the invincible Arsenal. Under the leadership of the club Arsène Wenger has always finished in one of the first two places in the English championship, with the exception of the 1996-1997 season finished in third place and 2005-2006 ended in fourth place. Arsenal is regarded as one of three English clubs largest with Manchester United and Liverpool. However, the club has not experienced the same success on the European stage, despite two titles (1970 UEFA Cup and Cup of Cups in 1994), and though it has reached the final of the League of Champions in 2006.

Awards
* Champions League:
o Finalist: 2006

* Europe Cup Winners' Cup:
o Winner: 1994.
o Finalist: 1980 and 1995.

* UEFA Cup:
o Winner: 1970.
o Finalist: 2000.

* The UEFA Supercup:
o Finalist: 1995

* England Championship:
o Champion (13): 1931, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1938, 1948, 1953, 1971, 1989, 1991, 1998, 2002, 2004.
o Vice-champion (8): 1926, 1932, 1973, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005.

* Championship in England from D2
o Vice-champion: 1904.

* Cup England:
o Winner (10): 1930, 1936, 1950, 1971, 1979, 1993, 1998, 2002, 2003, 2005.
o Finalist (7): 1927, 1932, 1952, 1972, 1978, 1980, 2001.

* Cup League:
o Winner: 1987 and 1993.
o Finalist: 1968, 1969, 1988 and 2007.

* Community Shield:
o Winner (12): 1930, 1931, 1933, 1934, 1938, 1948, 1953, 1991, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2004.

* Emirates Cup:
o Winner: 2007

* Tournament Amsterdam:
o Winner: 2005, 2007

With 13 titles Champion of England, Arsenal is the third most successful club in the Kingdom, after Liverpool and Manchester United. And with 10 FA Cups, is the second most titled club in this competition, after Manchester United. Arsenal has also managed to achieve 3 "Doubles" (win the Premierleague and the FA Cup the same year: in 1971, 1998 and 2002), a record shared with Manchester United. Arsenal managed to be the first English team to win the FA Cup and League Cup during the same year (1993) and is also the only club in London have managed to reach a final Champion's League in 2006.

News

The off-2007 was marked by the departure of Thierry Henry at FC Barcelona. The Gunners supporters thought that the club would collapse without its top scorer in the history of the club. As a result players this season have been more motivated than ever and wanted to prove that they did not need "Titi" to succeed. So the players Arsenal have a wonderful early season with a Cecs Fàbregas a state of grace who wakes up in the eyes of Europe. There was also a certain liberation in attack Adebayor who also makes a superb early season by placing a superb goal against Tottenham, Arsenal enemy. Other players have done a very good season start as Hleb, van Persie, Gallas, Eboué, or Sagna to name but a few. After 25 days of the tournament, The Gunners are top with 60 points. In the Champions League Gunners are equally exceptional including a 7-0 inflicted on Slavia Prague, including two doubles signed Cecs Fàbregas and Walcott.

Colors
Historically, Arsenal trees, home, a bright red shirt-sleeved white shorts with white, but it was not always the case. The choice of red comes in recognition of a charitable donation from Nottingham Forest, shortly after the founding of the club in 1886. Two of the founding members of Dial Square, Fred Beardsley and Morris Bates, who were players from Nottingham Forest, had moved to Woolwich to work. As was the first time a team was based in the area no kit could not be reached, Beardsley and Bates wrote to their former team to receive equipment and a balloon. The jersey was darker than the colors of the modern club, which draws closer to purple.

In 1933, Herbert Chapman, wanted his players to be more distinctively dressed, thus improving the holding by adding white stripes and changed the color red to dark red clearer.

In 1964, a completely red jersey was tried but before the negative reactions of supporters, white sleeves made their return as soon as next season. Recently, for the last season at Highbury Arsenal, the colors of the team returned to purple beginnings. The club will recover its colours at the end of the 2005-2006 season.

The colours of Arsenal have also inspired at least two other clubs. In 1909, Sparta Prague adopted a holding identical to that of Arsenal and in 1930, Hibernian adopted the design of the jersey of Arsenal but chose the color green or red. Both teams still wear those colors today.

The exterior colours of the club are traditionally yellow and blue but sometimes they were green and navy in particular in the years 1980. Since 1990 and the arrival of merchandising football jerseys, exterior colours change virtually all seasons. For the 2007-2008 season, the club has introduced an external white jersey in tribute to Herbert Chapman and a third jersey resembling the colours of FC Barcelona.

Arsenal is sponsored since 1982. The first agreement was signed with JVC and it does not end until 1999. Since then, the London club a wooded names SEGA Dreamcast (1999-2002) and then O ² (2002-2006). Since the summer of 2006 and until 2014, Arsenal is sponsored by Emirates. Regarding equipment, Nike is providing the club since 1994. Before them, Umbro (1978-1986) and Adidas (1986-1994) were responsible jerseys.


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