Arsenal Away Shirt 2010/11 with Diaby with Sagna 3 Printing - Kids - Midwest Gold/ Red Currant/ (Red Currant) The Arsenal 2010/11 away football kit will see their long association with Nike remain. The redcurrant stripes and cuff sleeves are a ...
Arsenal Home Shirt 2011 - Womens He'll fight with honour in the Arsenal Football Club Home Kids Football Shirt, a lightweight design that won't slow him down when he's racing toward the box. Bold Gunners' symbols will earn respect whi...
Arsenal Home Shirt 2011/12 - Kids He'll fight with honour in the Arsenal Football Club Home Kids Football Shirt, a lightweight design that won't slow him down when he's racing toward the box. Bold Gunners' symbols will earn respect wh...
Arsenal Home Shirt 2011/12 The new Arsenal home strip 2011/12 in celebration for the clubs 125th anniversary. Classic club details put the pride of the Gunners on full display with the traditional red colour and a wreath accompanying the badge, simil...
Arsenal Home Shirt 2011/12 The new Arsenal home strip 2011/12 in celebration for the clubs 125th anniversary. Classic club details put the pride of the Gunners on full display with the traditional red colour and a wreath accompanying the badge, simil...
ARSENAL FOOTBALL SHIRT COIN BANK WITH LOLLIPOPS AND BRACELETSOfficial MerchandiseIngredients : Dextrose, maltodextrin, Citric acid, anti-caking agent, E470b,Flavouring Colours : E104,E110, E122,E132Weight - 65gBest Before End : June 2011Store in Cool...
In 1888, just two years after the formation of the Club, Arsenal, then called Royal Arsenal, adopted its first crest.
This was based largely on the coat of arms of the Borough of Woolwich (see main image above) .The Club was based in the Borough from its formation until 1913, playing at Plumstead Common; Sportsman Ground; Manor Ground; Invicta Ground and the Manor Ground again before heading across London to Highbury, Islington prior to the move to Emirates Stadium.
The original badge comprised three columns, which, although they look like chimneys, are in actual fact cannons. The significance of the cannons to the Borough of Woolwich derives from the long military history surrounding the area. The Royal Arsenal, Royal Artillery Regiment and various military hospitals – which still dot the landscape today – were all prominent in the Borough.
The cannons on the original crest were obviously a reference to the military influence in Woolwich and despite the Club’s ties with the area being cut 89 years ago, the cannon theme has developed throughout the years and has remained prominent on the Gunners different crests down the years, including the new design. In the early days the crest was not as significant a part of a football club’s identity as it is today. Home shirts & Away shirts remained plain, unless commemorating a significant match, an FA Cup Final for example, and the crest was generally reserved for official headed stationery, matchday programmes and handbooks.
Following Arsenal’s move north to Highbury in 1913, it wasn’t immediately apparent that the Club would embrace the Woolwich Arsenal legacy and keep the cannon as a recognisable motif. The Club soon became just ‘Arsenal’, the Great War affected football for four seasons and recommencing in 1919/20 ‘normal’ football took some time to settle. During all of this period there was no sign of a crest as such but, in the first matchday programme of the 1922/23 season, when the Gunners played Burnley, a new club crest was revealed – a fearsome looking cannon – that would have sat proudly in the Royal Arsenal of Woolwich.
Mini
Grid
List
