Bob Wilson and me

Bob and I go way back. I played in goal at the same time he was Arsenal’s Double-winning ‘keeper. My style was much the same as his. In fact, I modelled my technique - of diving at the feet and pinching the ball off onrushing forwards - from him. He might have recognised it had...

100 for a 100 years! AISA and the Willow Foundation – raising money and making special memories

Bob addresses the 100 Years event while Paul Matz looks on  AISA’s 100 of Arsenal in the Top Flight event at Islington Town Hall was the brainchild of Paul Matz, ISA’s founder and membership secretary. From the start Paul was determined that alongside celebrating what was (and is) a unique achievement in football history –...

AISA celebrates 100 years of Arsenal in the top division

[This is the first of a number of reports from AISA's 100 Years of Arsenal in the Top Flight event, MC'd by Tom Watt at Islington Town Hall on Friday 22 November 2019.] We live in a world in which some produce fantasy tales of events from the past, while others deny that something we...