Through The Ages Podcast

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

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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 fiv...

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Episode 3: The Chapman Revolution - Herbert Chapman, the WM Formation & the Birth of Modern Management (1925–1934) 24.06.2026 23:50

"Herbert Chapman did not just win football matches. He invented the profession of football management. The fact that he also turned Arsenal into the greatest club of their era is almost incidental." In June 1925, Herbert Chapman arrived at Arsenal from Huddersfield Town — where he had won two consecutive league titles — with a five-year plan for success and a vision for football manageme...

Episode 2: "The Move - A Club Relocates, a War Intervenes & A Promotion That Changed History " · 1913–1925 05.06.2026 25:05

The Move: Norris, Highbury & the Great Controversy 1913–1925 · A Club Relocates, a War Intervenes & a Promotion That Changed History "Sir Henry Norris didn't save Arsenal out of love. He saved them out of ambition. It's a distinction worth making." In 1910, Woolwich Arsenal went into voluntary liquidation. The club was technically bankrupt. It was Sir Henry Norris — a p...

Episode 1: Dial Square "From Woolwich to the Football League" · 1886–1913 12.05.2026 25:12

"They came from a factory that made weapons. They built something that would outlast the empire it served." The story begins not in north London but in south-east London — or rather, in what was then Kent — in the enormous, sprawling complex of workshops and warehouses that made up the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich. In the autumn of 1886, a Scotsman named David Danskin had a simple idea: the...