Arsenal Bringing Back Boxers v Jockeys Fixture Exclusive
New kit gets a run
By Borsi Mellor
April 16 2011
Arsenal Times can reveal the real reason behind the new blue away kit.To quote Arsenal.com: The Boxers v Jockeys fixture was an important part of the Arsenal calendar during the 1950s. “The idea came from boxing referee Sam Russell who hoped to raise funds for the Sportsman’s Aid charity. He arranged the boxers’ team then Arsenal players Jimmy Logie and Arthur Shaw did the same for the jockeys.”
“The fixture on
April 2, 1951 was the first game held under floodlights at Highbury with the
boxers wearing the red and white of Arsenal and the jockeys taking Tottenham
colours.
The games, which
featured notable pugilists such as Henry Cooper and Brian London, got crowds as
big as 15,000 but by 1960 a combined boxers/jockeys team were taking on a
Showbiz XI and the fixture died out.”
New Kit Gets Trial Run
Profits drive
As part of Stan
Kroenke’s drive to maximise commercial profits he intends to make sure the new
kit is given maximum promotion, hence the Boxers v Jockeys fixture is to be
resucitated. The new kit is specifically designed to fit the jockeys and keep
up the tradition of the wee men wearing Spurs colours. Meanwhile the Boxers
will stick to the traditional red and white.
Those who say that
Jockey type shirts in Tottenham style colours are not faithful to Arsenal’s
history are quite clearly wrong, as the above quotes from Arsenal.com proves in the 1950s such
shirts were a popular part of the Arsenal tradition.
i didnt say most of it Fab. The first part is from Arsenal.com and is the hsitory of the Boxers v Jockeys fixtures that took place in the 1950s. If you understand that bit the rest follows.
I am suggesting that the new shirt is in the tradtion of Jockeys wearing Tottenham gear at Arsenal. Maybe i should put a link to the alleged new blue on blue strip that looks like a jockey shirt
"When we had to suffer the team is a lion because they suffer together." 4 July 2020 at Wolverhampton Wanderers
Arteta on his team's first away victory at a club above them in the Premiership since September 2015 at Leicester.
Did the horses hoof-prints make much of a mess of the oldee Highbury pitch, Padre?
Since the end of WW1, 1919, when the FA restarted its 4 tier football league, with Arsenal fc in the 1st div, there’s only ever been one club to have never been relegated from Div 1/ EPL.
Arsenal fc
Let’s keep making history
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2013:03:24:22:26:33 by weedz.
The horses werent allowed on the pitch, but the manure smell in the dressing room was awful
"When we had to suffer the team is a lion because they suffer together." 4 July 2020 at Wolverhampton Wanderers
Arteta on his team's first away victory at a club above them in the Premiership since September 2015 at Leicester.
Ahhh... The good old days, horse liniment and ManUah
Since the end of WW1, 1919, when the FA restarted its 4 tier football league, with Arsenal fc in the 1st div, there’s only ever been one club to have never been relegated from Div 1/ EPL.
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