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In this history episode, Tim takes us through the 1933-34 season- the last and only time (for now) that Arsenal have retained the league title. Arsenal fought Herbert Chapman’s former team Huddersfield Town for the title but, tragically, on January 6, 1934 Chapman suddenly died of pneumonia, leaving a grieving team to pick themselves up under the stewardship of Joe Shaw and Tom Whittaker to seal t...

In this history episode, Tim is joined by eminent Arsenal historian Andy Kelly which covers a variety of topics. •⁠ ⁠The formation of the football club from Dial Square Cricket Club in December 1886 •⁠ ⁠Known details from Dial Square’s first game against Eastern Wanderers later that month •⁠ ⁠Debunking the myth that Nottingham Forest supplied the club with their first official kit •⁠ ⁠Did Henry No...

In this history episode, Tim discusses the legacy of former Arsenal striker Charlie Buchan. He was Herbert Chapman's first signing for the Gunners in 1925 having left Woolwich Arsenal as a teenager in a row over expenses. His star quality and his intelligence and confidence as a trained teacher drew Chapman to Buchan as a prototype for the sort of player he wanted. It was reportedly Buchan who sug...

In this history pod, Tim recounts Royal Arsenal’s three years at the Invicta Ground from 1890-1893 and how it became the setting for a dramatic tug of war for the ownership of a club that was looking to establish itself and grow during football’s formative years.

In this history episode, Tim tells the story of Arsenal's first ever major silverware in the shape of the 1930 FA Cup. The significance of the final pitting the all conquering Huddersfield team Herbert Chapman built against the all conquering Arsenal side he was building, the importance of signing Alex James and Cliff Bastin in the summer of 1929, how Chapman made Huddersfield the finest team in t...

In this history pod, Tim talks about legendary Arsenal manager George Allison, who oversaw two league titles and an FA Cup and also provided a steady hand on the tiller for the club during the Second World War and took over shortly after the unexpected death of Herbert Chapman. Tim considers Allison's curious legacy given that his background and prominence was in journalism and he left the coachin...

In this history episode Tim gives a history of the North Bank, Highbury, from its modest roots to its days as ‘The Laundry End’ the home of Arsenal’s local, working class support and how it began to reflect immigration into Islington after the Second World War, the baby boomers of the 1960s and the birth of stadium atmosphere and fashions, through into the hooligan era and the infamous game agains...

Lou Wilson joins Brennan for Fantasy High secrets, first-time DM fails, and tips for scary villains.

In this history pod, Tim talks about Arsenal player from 1960-66 and England World Cup winner George Eastham. Eastham’s transfer to Arsenal from Newcastle in 1960 was one of the most controversial in English football history as he went on strike for over a year to secure it. His contract at Newcastle had expired but this was during the ‘retain and transfer’ era when clubs owned player registration...

In this history episode, Tim talks about the situation for Arsenal during the Second World War from 1939 until 1945. Tim covers the beginning of the 1939-40 season which was quickly suspended as war was declared on Germany, Highbury being requisitioned for the war effort as an air raid shelter, how the Football League reorganised competitions during hostilities and some of the strange games that h...

In this history pod, Tim talks about how Arsenal won the 1970-71 League and FA Cup double, becoming only the second team to achieve the double in the 20th century. Tim sets the context for Arsenal enduring over a decade of mediocrity in the mid-50s and 1960s, English football’s more competitive, egalitarian model, Arsenal’s struggles with status anxiety due to the shadow of those dominant teams of...

In this history pod, Tim is joined by Arsenal historian and author Andy Kelly to talk about the election to expand the First Division in 1919 when Arsenal were promoted and Tottenham demoted by the vote. Andy talks about the post First World War picture and why the top flight expanded, the preceding match fixing scandal between Liverpool and Manchester United and the politics behind the vote (aka,...

In this history pod, Tim gives an oral history of the Arsenal programme, from the first recorded programmes in 1890- which were poems produced by a fan- to the club's main and only corporate voice. How a programme editor went on to manage the club to multiple league titles, how a programme editor gave the club its 'Victoria Concordia Crescit' motto in the 1940s, the evolution of the purpose and vo...

On this history episode of the Arsenal Vision Post Match Pod Podcast, Tim talks to author, football historian and Arsenal fan Jon Spurling about Arsenal in the 1980s. Tim and Jon talk through Arsenal’s trajectory from a club down on its luck struggling to hold onto key players at the beginning of the decade, to winning the title with an exciting young team by the end. Tim and Jon talk about some o...

In the latest history pod, Tim gives an oral history of Arsenal FC's stewardship from 1927, when Henry Norris is banned from football, to 2007 when KSE become involved. This is a story of two families, the Hill-Woods and the Bracewell-Smiths. Tim talks through their respective involvements in the club, how they used their connections from other industries and passed shareholdings and titles down t...

In this episode, Tim covers Royal Arsenal’s decision to ‘go pro’ in the summer of 1891. The pod recounts the events that led to the decision that the club were ready to become a professional club even though it was against the rules of their regional FAs and not the done thing in the south. Then Tim covers how they achieved it, the ‘shamateurism’ that preceded it and the internal and very bitter e...

In this episode, Tim covers how some men from the Dial Square cricket club in the Royal Arsenal factory decided to start a football team at the conclusion of the cricket season in 1886. Tim covers off the meetings that formed the club, the founders, some of the decisions that set the path to the club we know today and why Woolwich was ready for a football team in 1886.

In this episode, Tim talks over the move from Woolwich to Highbury in 1913. Some of the background that led to the move, how and why they did it and how they used Henry Norris’ connections and his experience in property to enable the move and defeat the opposition to it.

Tim goes through the history of the Marble Halls and the palatial East Stand as the brainchild of Herbert Chapman and his vision for a more luxurious, welcoming Highbury in the 1930s. Tim then goes through the history, the intention and the iconography of the Clock End clock. Chapman wouldn’t live to see the finished versions of the clock or the east stand but both embody his legacy and gave Arsen...

In this episode, Tim talks through Herbert Chapman’s tactical legacy at Arsenal and the WM Formation around which he would recruit and build the team that would dominate the English game. Tim talks about how Chapman exploited a change in the offside law to perfection, the players Chapman bought and repurposed to make the system work and how his revolutionary democratic approach with players led to...

Tim gives an oral history of the 1952-53 season in which Arsenal won the league on the final day on goal average. Tim also looks at the post war, post Chapman context that made this such a difficult period for the club, driven by incredible manager Tom Whittaker and how it signalled the end of an era where Arsenal wouldn’t win another trophy for 17 years.

Phoebe and Patrick tackle the first Flavian - Flavian Flav, the first man to wear a big sundial around his neck: Vespasian.

You asked and we listened. We watched Mad Max: Fury Road, a movie that asks the question: what if the future was Australian and weirdly steampunk? Join us for thrills, 2010s nostalgia and a surprising revelation about Meryl Streep.

Milo, Phoebe and Pat are digging into the big man, the Marcus Lepidus of 69 AD - Aulus Vitellius. He may only have been emperor for 8 months but what an eight months...

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