Battle of Highbury, England V Italy History!

Hello all,
   commenting on anything other than Arsenal is not the norm for GFS as regular readers will know but I just could not resist putting this out there today to show that there is always a link with with todays' game to Arsenals' past. I am wishing England all the best for this evening, especially to Walcott and Oxlade-Chamberlain but I hope the game is nothing like what happened at Highbury on this occasion!

Highbury November 14 1934

It was being called, in Italy, the most important game in their history England were to face the Azzuri at the home of Arsenal. There was a heavy Arsenal presence with this England team with seven, yes seven Arsenal players called in to the side, Tom Whittaker, Arsenals' trainer looking after the England team and even the Arsenal manager, ...
 

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