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Here's one for ya, Tottenham Hotspur didn't become a London club until 1965 when it became a borough of London. I believe Tottenham Hotspur was in Middlesex not London. So the actual fact is Arsenal was not only a London club before them, but also a North London club before them aswell.

You are doing what Sky Sports Football should've done a long time ago. Excellent video as always. 👍

Dial square not arch. And considering Tottenham didn’t become part of Greater London till 1965 that makes Arsenal the proper North London club

Why does George graham always get missed out, he brought success on a budget with lots of youth.

I'm an Arsenal because I grew up on Plumstead common in the 90's ( 1990's not 1890's ;) ), right across the road from where Royal Arsenal's first ever ground was. Spent most my childhood around those barracks before the overhaul started in like 2003 onwards, most of it was an empty shell still damaged from Luftwaffe bombs right up until the turn of the century when they decided the right thing is to renovate but still keep the history alive and im all for it. Up the Gunners!

When you mentioned the money troubles arsenal had I thought you were gonna mention the help they received from rangers all those years back. Rangers bought 2 shares in the club and played 3 games with around 60,000 fans each and all proceeds went to arsenal to help them out. Just a fun fact 😇

As always , I love your videos , especially as I’m Arsenal lover of over 40 years . I see Arsenal as the biggest London club !! Irrespective of North or South

"Won't forget its origins". We have the clock and the clock end at the Emirates. On the middle tier, there is a food/bar/lounge area called Dial Square. It isnt much but at least we have some history to remember 🤷‍♂️

Arsenal are my beloved club for 19 years and in reality,they are a South London club only to be relocated to the North London due to lack of rivals in the South London apart from Crystal Palace in the early 1910's I think,good friends!!!LONG LIVE ARSENAL!!!🏋‍♂️🏋‍♂️🏋‍♂️🏋‍♂️🏋‍♂️🏋‍♂️🏋‍♂️🏋‍♂️🏋‍♂️🏋‍♂️🏋‍♂️🏋‍♂️🏋‍♂️🏋‍♂️🏋‍♂️🏋‍♂️🏋‍♂️🏋‍♂️🏋‍♂️🏋‍♂️🏋‍♂️🏋‍♂️🏋‍♂️🏋‍♂️

Watched your video last night. I am absolutely blown away by the history of Arsenal FC. Shame the pitch at Highbury is no more however good to see the buildings been preserved even though has been massively redeveloped. I have a soft spot for Arsenal. The early 2000s from Arsenal were my favourite times likes of Thierry Henry, Dennis Bergkamp etc. Sam I hope you come back over to Perth Scotland again. I do recommend Scone Thistle. If you ever decide to go to a Scone Thistle game at their home ground, let me know.

Henry Norris, the then Fulham chairman bought shares in Arsenal in 1910 - became chairman, and tried to merge the 2 clubs but was blocked by the football league. He then looked to move Arsenal to another site and chose Highbury. Also, while he was Fulham Chairman he was offered Stamford Bridge but declined as the rent was too steep so the owner Gus Mears founded Chelsea FC.

Your videos are great

Great video again! Working very hard lad.

Arsenal are currently drawing up plans to renovate the exterior of the stadium due to start later this year, thats why the badge hasnt been painted yet

Fascinating stuff Sam. Love your more historical videos.

It’s 1 thing to read about the history of my favorite club but to have someone do a video on it and actually see the origins of the club is truly something else. You sir, are next level!

Pure class! Keep up. the good work, fantastic video!

Dial Square not Arch. Arsenal moved north to increase the fan base. They chose Highbury because it covered east and north london border. Hence many east londoners support Arsenal and not west ham as is commonly thought.

Great video as always! Love The Arsenal! Only 'regret' I have is that I never had the chance to watch them play at Highbury! Ce la vie! Itching to get back to the UK and hopefully spend a little more time in London and go see all of Arsenal's historical places and points of interest as well, but thank you for taking me there in the meantime... should tide me over until mid-next year, when hopefully I'll be back... might even try to time it to watch a game! COYG! 🔴⚪

Love your channel mate! 2 of my favorite things, history and football! Going to be in London next year! Would love to go see some of the stadiums!

Amazing video! Must be a lot of work making these vids!! Really appreciate it being a Dutch gooner man! #COYG!!

Great video on a hot day, appreciate the effort you put in!

Amazing, good to hear the complete story of my beloved teams! Thanks 👍👍

man i loved this vid im a massive arsenal fan

I’m gutted you were in south London. While you were at Dulwich, you wasn’t far from two old grounds. One of which was an fa cup final venue. I’d have been happy to show you around

Brilliant insight into a great football institution !! love watching your stuff, my brother is named Charlie-George that how much our family loves this club.

Nice video footy adventures !

Top job as usual Sam, very interesting story and agree about Highbury, if only more of the classic lost stadiums could have had at least one iconic stand worked into residential developments somehow like this one ...

Great video! I loved it! I really want to go one day to London to visit the Emirates and Highbury

You missed that Arsenal were controversially voted into the the Old 1st division in place of Guess who?....Yup, Tottenham Hotspur. Despite only finishing 5th in the 2nd division that year. And haven't left the top flight yet!

Hi Sam, really great video, took me back to many, many away games at Highbury, always my favourite away ground. You could definitely do worse than doing a video on Henry Norris (the main architect of Arsenal's move north) as without him Arsenal would still be in Woolwich, Fulham would be at Stamford Bridge and Chelsea wouldn't exist. So definitely worth checking out his Wikipedia entry!

Such a fantastic video as always, but especially for an arsenal fan + history nerd like myself!!!

"Thierry, you're on fire!" 🔥 - How apt. 😋

Hi Sam, thanks for the video. Do you ever see any of the other footy vlogs on your trips and do you share ideas with them?

I worked in Woolwich for a summer and wondered whether the Arsenal/Royal Arsenal things in the area were related to the football club, cheers for the video!

Great video cheers for that 👍🏻

Amazing video man Keep it up #COYG 💟💟

Great video mate! One thing, they are due to be renovating the exterior of the Emirates this summer (they’ve put a lot of money aside for this) so hopefully by the time the season starts or at least by Christmas it will be in a much better condition! I agree though, they shouldn’t let it fall into disrepair like that it bugs me too!

I'm glad you read my [ recent ] comment, about 'Shelbourne FC' being Dublin's very own iteration of 'The Woolwich Arsenal' [ i.e.. once a 'Southside' club, now a 'Northside' club ].

Very cool video mate. Great watch Please please do a video about Millwall 👍

Great video 🇦🇺

Hi Sam you should look around the Larne FC stadium

You should also mention that Tottenham weren’t even in North London until 1965 before Middlesex was part of London

I want to stress Arsenal have told the supports trust that improvements will be made on the stadium (interior and exterior) - new big screens are set to be be put up and all of the other work during the winter world cup

If you want to be technical, when they were founded, Woolwich was part of Kent.

@Footy Adventures interesting historical fact - Herbert Chapman was poached from Huddersfield Town after winning the league 3x in a row. There’s only one other Town manager got poached in their history & that was by Liverpool, yes Bill Shankly

I know Dial Arch well. I'm an Arsenal fan and go past Woolwich regularly

Hiya Sam, Could you do the merger of Newcastle East End and Newcastle West End, then Newcastle United were formed, I enjoyed this vlog, is Highbury a grade 1 listed building? like Ibrox at Rangers, this is Choppy in Whitehaven, Cumbria, England

Did you happen to see Nicola White's video this past weekend. She is a mudlarking and she dug up something related to Arsenal's first stadium. She visited the guy who has the steps in his backyard and got to sit on them.

As a 'Gashead', the North / South London rivalry means nothing to me; I'm just pleased that, although I can see 'Trashton' from my living room windows, I live north of The Avon. Anyway, it was a bit of a throwaway comment, but you said they played their first match on The Isle of Dogs - and that's north of The Thames, isn't it? Up The Gas!

I need knew all that was there and I’ve supported arsenal for 30yrs 😳

Funny how milwall moved from North of the river to south

sam dont know if your aware but a new club was formed recently within the last 2 years called dial square or something very similar and yes thete is an arsenal link

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You’ll be pleased to know that the club have said that they will be fixing a number of things outside and inside the stadium including a new design for the exterior, repairing leaks in the roof, improving the Wi-Fi connectivity and replacing the large screens. They are fully aware of how it looks and acknowledge it needs attention. Hopefully the work will be largely complete by the start of the season but somethings may take a bit longer

Nice work and effort. So much more to the story though, including the now defunct 'Clapton Wanderers' and the hapless THFC, petitioning the League and courts to block Arsenal's proposed migration to Highbury. Despite the embarrassing end to his Arsenal managerial tenure, George Graham should not be overlooked. Like Wenger later on; during the prime coaching period of his career in the late 1980s-early 90s, he also brought Arsenal back to being title and cup winners: winning 2 top division titles - including the legendary 2-0 deciding win at Anfield - FA Cup, League Cup and UEFA Cup Winners Cup as he developed youth players (many of whom went on to have stellar careers) alongside more senior players...COYG!

Appropos of nothing but my brother works at that pub so i was looking very closely to see if i could see him, hes a chelsea fan

The history of Arsenal has a taste of London that isn't often the narrative of London. There is a slightly humble pursuit of excellence in their character. A stoic realism perhaps. I like them for that. It still usually takes a lot to beat Arsenal.

Hello there

That building site just had generic warehouses before, i live in the area and its now all built up with expensive flats

Dial Square not Dial Arch.

They should have done this with upton park

please do lcfc!

The stadium is getting a make over this summer

Important part of the history and you get it wrong! DIAL SQUARE was the clubs name not arch

I'm an Arsenal fan and I disagree with this sentiment that Arsenal fans should'nt have treated Wenger so badly towards the end. In Wengers last two seasons we finished 5th and 6th respectively the last season was particularly bad. Wenger was a great manager for Arsenal but unfortunately he long overstayed his welcome and I believe the club has suffered as a result. We had opportunities to get managers like Klopp and Guardiola but choose to stick with Wenger's outdated tactics instead. This has set us back years.

Great video- I don’t know why other fans care so much. We certainly don’t. 😂

I know that Arsenal has its origins in the south of London

Two questions: is there still an Arsenal fan base in Woolwich or do they all go to Charlton Athletic? And are Arsenal taking their roots seriously, for example by hosting an annual friendly at Woolwich or something like that?

I've stood outside both Highbury and Emirates (never been inside either) and I have to say I was far more impressed with Highbury. Such a shame they moved.

Early gang

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I don't not like the current Arsenal badge. The older 70's style cannon facing West was a far better and more attractive logo - design!

I think they were called dial square??

New exteriors planned for when the World Cup is on.

as a chelsea fan i think arsenal are north london not south london

That's East London, Sam. North of the river, though.

South

North

Not 100% right. They went from Dial Square to Royal Arsenal to Woolwich Arsenal to The Arsenal and finally to Arsenal. The name The Arsenal was registered on 4th April 1914 and used until suspension of football at the end of the 1914/15 season due to the first world war.

My taking on why they moved north is because of a bigger population.

DIAL SQUARE! not DIAL ARCH!

Tottenham fans bantering us about being from South London we don't care

North London is ours, North London is ours, f#ck off back to Woolwich, North London is ours! COYS! Just a bit of banter! ; )

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Arsenal have been a North London club a lot longer than Sp*rs, who were in Middlesex until the sixties, I think.

Arsenal is not a North London club Arsenal is from Woolwich Arsenal and I need to go back And I just realise every minute you’re talking about Arsène Wenger but you’re forgetting in the 90s George Graham done a great job as Arsenal manager and I’m not even a Arsenal fan and I know that but don’t forget George Graham as he’s a Arsenal legend

What if Emirates were built in the South?

Now I know why Spurs are called the true North London club

Did you know Tottenham FC was not a North London club until the 1st of April 1965. Before the 1st of April 1965 they were part of Middlesex county after which they were integrated into Greater London. Therefore prior to the contrary Arsenal is the first and true Premier North London club. Having established themselves in North London in 1913 a full 52 years before Tottenham was recognized as being part of London.

Alan Shields Hamilton South Lanarkshire Scotland. I just see Arsenal as a London club I dont even think of Arsenal as North or South. Myb if I was a Londoner I would look at Arsenal differently but to me they are just a London club. I know a lot about the history of Arsenal I am big on sports history & social history myself. My understanding of why Arsenal moved North of the river is they wanted to gain a larger fanbase & this is a big part of the reason they had money troubles in the first place when they where South of the river as geographically in South London they where not in the best location catchment area at that point in history. I am a Chelsea fan now I dont particularly like Spurs or West Ham United but I respect both clubs & there history but Arsenal have always been a club I am not really fussed about as a club they stir absolutely no feeling in me what so ever to be honest. It was very cool to see the actual history locations in different points in Arsenal's history in the modern day though Sam. Keep Safe Sam & Keep up the good work.

The obsession with Spurs fans with Arsenal

Mate, the club have long said they’re doing a massive makeover of the outside of the Emirates. Fans have been involved with voting on the matter, and during the World Cup, they’ll be installing the new artwork/fixing the badge. Besides that, lovely video! I’m just defensive over that matter lol.

Cringe worthy how Spuds throw up Woolwich as if it’s an insult or will insight some form of annoyance. Facts stand that lot up the road have their entire trophy cabinet in their club shop, including the DVD of when they last won the league…. apparently it’s being reproduced in colour soon. You neglected to mention Spuds are from Middlesex, not London, and what use to be a swamp…. Not much has changed there.

you are a spurs fan

Being pedantic, Tottenham are Middlesex, not North London.

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Nice video again but you skipped the most controversial part, which is how Arsenal got their place in the 1. division in 1919 on behalf of Tottenham, which really ignited the rivalry. By the way, originally there were four statues planned outside The Emirates, but they had to skip the one of Robert Pires. It kept falling over! 🤣

Best thing Arsenal did by moving to North London is that we turned it from white to red in an instant and all spurs fans are still bitter about it to this day.