Product Description

The Arsenal Companion is essential reading for any Gunners fan. Packed with Gunners history and anecdotes, this book will tell you:
- The first Gunners player to be substituted
- Those Arsenal players who went on to manage other clubs
- The Arsenal player who used to get a taxi to the ground in the days when the team travelled via public transport
- The player who caught a rocket from Arsène Wenger, after he caught eating an illicit plate of spaghetti bolognese
- Who was the more successful in derbies: Terry Neill or George Graham
- The player who walked out after the club refused to pay his expenses
- Arsenal's opponents in the first floodlit match at Highbury

Due to its format The Arsenal Companion can be read in one go or dipped into at will perhaps at half-time at the Emirates, or while waiting for the train at Finsbury Park.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #214125 in Books
• Published on: 2008-09-22
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 160 pages

Review
Every Arsenal fan will enjoy this book. --Piers Morgan

About the Author
Born a long throw-in away from Arsenal Stadium, Paul Donnelley has been a Gunners fan for almost 40 years and can still remember his mum telling him to stop shouting at the television during the 1971 FA Cup Final. He has written 12 books on a wide variety of subjects including film, television, true crime and, of course, football. He lives in a book-lined flat in Essex.