1 September 1934: First home match for George Allison as manager. Arsenal recorded their biggest ever win over Liverpool, Arsenal 8 Liverpool 1. Ted Drake and Ray Bowden each score hattricks in front of 54,062. Having won the league for the last two seasons expectations were very high despite Chapman’s death.
1 September 1983: Jose Antonio Reyes was born. Reyes joined Sevilla FC at the age of 10. and went on to play 86 games for Sevilla before moving to Arsenal. He died in a car crash on 1 June 2019 aged just 35.
1 September 2020: Gabriel signed from Lille for £23.14m