Fabulous Foundation Fundraising
Dec 29th, 2016 by 'holic
A couple days back at base and I am catching up with my email. Among it all the update on the figure raised for the Arsenal Foundation on this season’s charity matchday against Stoke City earlier this month. £258,214, a new record sum donated by the players, staff, and supporters of the Arsenal. Well done to all who contributed.
Add this to the one million pounds raised by the Arsenal Legends game against Milan Glorie in September, and the twenty percent of sales of the Arsenal Christmas jumpers, and you will see a very healthy contribution to enable the Foundation to further help those both locally and overseas.
Beneficiaries of 2016’s charity matchday include; Arsenal Foundation partner, Willow, Nordoff Robbins, and Teenage Cancer Trust who create world-class cancer services for young people in the UK. Through The Gunners Fund, The Arsenal Foundation will make more grants of up to £2,500 totalling £75,000 each season to support a range of local projects.
The money raised by the Legends match will be used to create pitches in Jordan and Somalia. The Arsenal Foundation’s efforts in locations recovering from former troubles continues to provide real help to the young people in those areas.
At this time of year in particular it is good to remember the work that the Arsenal’s charity arm does with so many disadvantaged young people. It should be a matter of considerable pride for all involved.
Classic Football Shirts
The new year sees a new alliance here at Goonerholic with classicfootballshirts.co.uk becoming a very welcome addition. Check out just the Arsenal kit they are currently offering and you will find page after page of wonderful shirts and associated kit priced from under a tenner to eye-watering prices for player issue rarities. There really is something for everyone there, and if you click on there through the link in this paragraph there is a chance this blog may make a few coppers too, thank you.
Classic Football Shirts was formed a decade ago by students Matt and Doug, and the business has expanded to the extent that they now operate out of a 15000 sq ft warehouse. Over 25 people are now kept busy selling kit from 50 clubs and 20 brands worldwide to provide the best clearance bargains out there. Why not take a look and see what takes your fancy?
45 Responses to “Fabulous Foundation Fundraising”
Cheers H!
Quite right – am very proud of our efforts for charity. Classy club as always.
Evening Esso.
We should make more of it mate. It is a source of pride.
Evening H
Fantastic achievement by the Arsenal Foundation,leading the way as always.
On Classic shirts,
My memory is a bit dusty,and other geriatric Gooners might be able to assist,but i cannot remember whether the Arsenal shop back in the late 50’s and 60’s ever sold replica shirts.??
Dad used to frequent the shop quite often on Match days back then,always buying some memento of the Club.
You could get Scarves/hats/badges et al,but could you buy a Replica shirt.
Enlightenment required from Delia/Uply/TTG/Chris,and anyone i have forgotten.
Nice one ‘h
I was given a long sleeved Arsenal shirt or my seventh birthday. It was bought at Triangle sports in Well Street Hackney. You could also buy the iron-on number for your favourite player. I wanted to be Pat Rice but they had run out of 2s. Mum got me a 3 instead so I had to be Bob McNab all summer
As previously mentioned, Clive, I was there in the ’60s (not to mention the ’50s), so memories are totally unreliable. But if shirts were available I never had one. I had a scarf, but I think that was knitted by Mum.
For countryman and others who enthused about Lucas vs WBA, I had another, closer, look at the 24 minutes he played. He certainly did a lot of moving about, but only actually touched the ball four times – two sideways passes to players in no better position than he was, an attempted through ball stopped by a defender which he claimed was handball, and the cross which was indeed very nice. So one effective touch in a quarter of the match.
Tip of the hat to the Foundation. Always right to put back in.
‘A few coppers’, ‘Guv’nor? Showing your age there 🙂
Clive: I think Leeds United were the first UK club to sell replica kits in the early 1970s, though they were available on the Continent in the ’60s (replica shirts in general not Leeds United shirts, though Revie stole the all-white kit from Real Madrid to replace their yellow and blue.)
Remember, too, in those days, clubs often played in much the same shirts as you could buy in a sports shop. No sponsor’s logo, no manufacturer’s logo except on the label inside the collar, and often not even the club badge. I think our first regular league kit to include the cannon was the 1967 one.
Here is a photo of the 66/67 squad. No cannon.
https://angryofislington.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/1966-team.jpg?w=584&h=455
and the following season
http://www.arsenalagonyecstasy.co.uk/communities/4/004/010/665/894/images/4572055107_403x239.jpg
Cannon.
And here is one shirt that they thankfully never made:
https://www.classicfootballshirts.co.uk/1995-96-arsenal-prototype-away-l-s-shirt-mint-xl.html
The monks have come up with chapter and verse on replica kits. It was indeed Leeds United in 1973 when Don Revie switched the club’s kit supplier from Umbro to Admiral. Admiral came up with the idea of redesigning the kit so it could be copyrighted (that mostly involved putting the Admiral logo on it) and thus licenced replicas could be sold to the public with the club getting a slice of each sale. Admiral also came up with the idea of a ‘change’ kit that Leeds wore in all away games regardless of whether there was a clash with the home team’s strip. So parents would be pestered into buying two sets of kit. The first replica kits were usually of inferior quality to the ones supplied to the team but sold for two to three times the price of a generic football shirt. Umbro and Bukta, which had dominated football kit supply for decades, responded in kind in 1976. Adidas entered the UK market the year after, which was also the year the FA allowed shirt sponsorship.
Great research Ned
Have the Monks got any info on the shirts Jesus and the disciples wore in the annual Christmas day derby that Heaven played against Hell back in the day. ??
Pretty obvious, ‘holic, the good guys in all white and the bad guys in all black.
No colour TV then.
Ooops, that should have been to Clive, not ‘holic!
Sixty quid for a pair of socks? *mutters*
I gave away or sold just about all my Arsenal gear. Al I have left is a 2007 Mercurial lineup jacket with the tags still on it, unworn, an 89 home, a 90/91 home and a bruised banana.
I got the last one from a hasty doing up of the flies after a Christmas Day slash. 😉
The last word on Bowie, Lemmy and the rest who died in 2016, plus lots else that went wrong or needs to be forgotten … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRacAqbzkbM
It’s so good to see such enormous commitment to charity running through the club. I’ve done some work directly with Willow and they are a great organisation. Bravo to the Arsenal.Im glad I bought a Christmas jumper!
More Beans on Toast … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKTGG-z4Q1M
Nice one, ‘holic and all those who do good for the world. Also, nice song Chris @19.
Before predicting Arsenal to win this weekend by a slim 3-2 margin, Paul Merson cautions thusly: “I see Palace causing them major problems, Arsenal won’t be able to live with Christian Benteke and they have pace as well.”
Who is this “Pace” guy? I often hear him mentioned playing in various teams and bemoaned by teams that don’t have a share of him.
The headmistress at my primary school was Mrs Pace. Perhaps if she’d gotten out more there might be more to share around?
UTA.
Thanks, Holic – interesting read.
It is a matter of pride and curiosity in these days of hyper greed in football that, without an oil sheik, crook or shady foreign dictator to swell our own coffers, Arsenal FC continues to employ people to generate the funds for such a diverse range of causes.
The press, however, will report only that Arsenal FC has no ambition because it won’t pay Alexis Sanchez £400,000 per week.
Not that he has even asked for it as far as we know.
Finally, at this time of year, a special mention for Bob Wilson who, while he will never get over the loss of his own daughter, does such a fantastic job for so many others.
As I see TTG has already pointed out !
Well worthy of two mentions anyway !
And before it’s too late ……..
How did they know Santa was at the seance …… ?
‘Cos they could feel his presents ! ?
Trev
Megs and Bob Wilson deserve enormous credit fir turning the tragedy of their daughter’s death into such a productive gift for so many very ill people . Their dedication is quite amazing. He is an extraordinarily nice man and very good company . I probably got more of an insight into Wenger from him than anybody else I have met . He really does believe that no more dedicated servant of Arsenal Football club could exist.
I noted we will lose Elneny for the ANC in January. Is he the only one we are likely to miss? I’ve not heard that Iwobi is going with Nigeria.
A great man, TTG, for sure.
Possibly the bravest keeper we ever had – certainly in my time – and has done so much outside of football which, as Holic repeatedly pointed out in his previous post, is only a game ! ?
Emma Byrne and Rachel Yankey have left Arsenal Ladies. They both had glittering careers and Emma for reasons that had nothing to do with goalkeeping was always a favourite of mine.
TTG. You are faster than the Arsenal webmaster who has not taken down their pictures yet. 🙂
Rachel Yankey always made me wonder where her true loyalties lay, on this or your side of the pond.
The last time Hull City (Hull Tigers?) were in the Premier League their ground as I recall was known as the KC Stadium but now it seems to have been renamed the KCOM Stadium, as I suspect it is not a different building. My vast experience tells me that gratuitous renaming exercises are a sign of instability.
Sure thing it was not gratuitous. Nobody ever sells their soul freely to corporate owners. Nearly so in the case of Everton, of course, who received a few cases of Chang beer. ?
Looks like nobody much was interested in Hull v. Everton then.
In the department of tragedic ex-Spurs managers there is occurrence of further misery, in this case involving the gentleman of the increasingly sad countenance.
http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/38451841
Congrats to Alex Scott for her MBE.
TTG, Iwobi isn’t going with Nigeria since Nigeria isn’t going.
I had a scarf, bobble hat and a jumper knitted by my mum
Wore it till it fell apart
Sydney red
30 odd degrees here today
Oh for some snow
I had a scarf. Rarely wore it. Did the night we lost at home to Walsall in the League Cup – (83 from memory?). Chucked it down on the North Bank in disgust as I trudged out. Never worn one since.
my mother never knit
her sister did
my childhood spent in her creations various
most were alright
once though
she did have the bizarre notion
of making my sister a swimming costume type yoke
a 60s/70s craze ? i dunno
now
there was a project doomed to fail
if ever there was one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjZES3_SSYA
.
when me sister relives it
there’s not a dry seat in the house
?
the height of my gooner adornment
was the wee metal badges
fuckin loved them
the crest or just the cannon
?
thought i was the bee’s bollocks
mind you
coupled with a red harrington
i fuckin was
oh yesssssss !!!!
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HAPPY NEARLY NEW YEAR EVERYONE
Good stuff from Bob and his Mrs. His work will have had huge positive impact for many blighted young lives. He deserves a big gong far more than most if not all those on today’s anachronistic list.
Many people say charity begins at home but relatively few venture to say much more about where it should go. Everywhere, I suppose not, but possibly in the middle ground.
cba – I found a toffee tin last week with some old badges in, one of which was the blue and yellow Arsenal one I started wearing on my jacket in 87/88
So it’s obviously all down to me that we won the league the following year.
Bayonne Jean
I’m pleased to hear that . Not a very nice set of results today so far. Yoonited and Chavski were far from comfortable but got the job done.
Poo look way ahead of a pretty lightweight Citeh side so far
Nice post H. Nice to hear about some of the positives.
Bob Wilson is a true legend. As others have said above, perhaps something in the post from the Queen may be a bit overdue.
Take it easy tonight, people 🙂 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>