Duncan Barkes

When they were founded, two of their original players were from Nottingham Forest, and one of them brought with him as a gift...

Nottingham Forest's shirts and the players who were then just about to become Woolwich Arsenal liked the look of them.

And the rest is history.

I don't know where the white sleeves came from, but that's the red shirts.

Yes.

Yes, I've got the book in front of me, the football yearbook.

It's a huge thing.

Not really worth it.

But it does tell me that their original name, before they were the Woolwich Arsenal, because of their shirts, they were called the Woolwich Reds.

Right.

Which is vaguely interesting.

It is, yeah.

And then I've got this at the bottom of the page, which is a fact thing.

It's Icelandic inside forward Albert Gudmundsson made two appearances as an amateur for Arsenal.

in the 1946-47 season, but was unable to get a work permit and therefore couldn't play in the Football League.

There we go.

Who did they have up front?

So how did it turn out?

Yeah, I'm guessing you had to stand.

So you wouldn't have seen absolutely everything, because how tall were you then?