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OTD 1928 final #Arsenal game for Charlie Buchan MM, a Sunderland legend and the first signing by the new manager Herbert Chapman in Jul 1925.

Buchan, a local Plumstead boy born in 1891 first joined Woolwich Arsenal at Manor Ground as an amateur in Boxing Day 1909 aged 18. Charlie Buchan, Arsenal.
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Due to financial difficulties, Buchan soon left the club after just few reserve outings. Brief spells at Northfleet and Leyton FC before joining the Black Cats in 1911.

Standing just over 6ft and weighing 12st/3lb, the forward was a tough nut for the defenders to crack. Image
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Charlie spent 14 seasons at Roker Park winning the league in 1912/13, Golden Boot in 1922/23 and is Sunderland's all time second top scorer with 222 goals.

During the WW1 Buchan became also a war hero. He was involved in the battles of Somme, Cambrai and Passchendaele..
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..earning the Military Medal and the rank of second lieutenant for his service. Buchan was 33 when Chapman lured him to join his boyhood club.

It was actually quite fascinating deal. Sunderland wanted £4000 for him, but #Arsenal were willing to pay only half of that.
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Agreement was found; £2000 plus a C-note of every goal Charlie scores in his first season. He scored 20 so do your maths there.

Charlie might not have won any trophies during his three seasons at the club but he surely played a big role in what was to follow soon after.
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Buchan was #Arsenal captain from the off, he led the club to it's best league finish in 2nd and to it's first FA Cup final scoring 56 goals in 120 games.

His didn't manage to score in his final game, a 3-3 draw againts Everton at Goodison Park but it's a game with history. Arsenal captain Charlie Buc...
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A certain Dixie Dean scored all the Toffees' goals and hit the legendary 60 league goals in a season milestone in that game.

After his retirement Buchan stayed within the game becoming a journalist, radio broadcaster and later started his own football publications.
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There was a magazine Charles Buchan's Football Monthly from the early 1950's to mid 1970's. Charlie was also a founding member of the Football Writers Association.

In 1955 Buchan published his autobiography 'A Lifetime in Football' that I haven't read but writing this..
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..makes me think I perhaps should?

Charles Murray Buchan died in Jun 1960 while on holiday in Monte Carlo aged 68.

I read an article back from the day saying 'Charlie was the only player who ever got his own point of view across famous Herbert Chapman'.

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OTD 1939 final major #Arsenal game for Eddie Hapgood, one of the finest full-backs ever to have represented the club.

Born in Bristol in Sep 1908, he joined the Gunners in Oct 1927 from Kettering Town aged 19 for a fee of £1,000 what turned out be a real bargain. Eddie Hapgood, Arsenal.
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Lightly built and a vegetarian, #Arsenal trainer Tom Whittaker put Hapgood on a new diet (yes, including meat) and to build up more muscle.

So having featured three times so far, 15 months after joining, he became basically ever present for over a decade in Jan 1929.
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With Cliff Bastin, Hapgood is the other player who won all The #Arsenal first seven ever trophies during the 1930s; five league championships and twice the FA Cup.

He captained the club the last two seasons before the Second World War after Alex James' retirement in 1937. Arsenal captain Alex James ...
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May 4
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OTD 30yr ago in 1993 only 18,817 attended Highbury to watch #Arsenal play a goalless draw against QPR in the first Premier League season.

That's 11 days before the FA Cup final v Sheffield W and some two weeks after The Gunners had beaten The Owls in the League Cup final.
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#Arsenal had also won the league championship twice in the previous four seasons, being almost invincible in 1990/91 doing so.

It was of course the season when The North Bank was being rebuilt and the ground capacity was 29,000. Still the avg. attendance was 24,796. North Bank mural at Highbur...
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It was a weird season with #Arsenal scoring the fewest goals in the league of all teams: 40 in 42 averaging 0,95 GpG.

That's equally (1923/24) the second worst figure in the club history with worst (0,68) being 1912/13, when we were relegated after winning only three games.
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