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[quote][i]Originally posted by Edd[/i] This was on the offical Arsenal website a few months back............ It Happened at Highbury OUR FRIENDS IN THE NORTH An atmospheric black and white photo hanging on the walls of the Marble Halls depicts a midweek friendly between Arsenal and Rangers on a frosty December evening in 1951. The match was played to a sell-out crowd of 62,012, with a further 10,000 left clamouring for tickets outside. The game was notable for being one of the first played under the recently installed Highbury floodlights. But it was also particularly resonant because it marked the resumption of a regular tradition stretching back almost 20 years, something which had been disrupted by World War Two: the annual friendly encounter with Glasgow Rangers which, overall, spanned four decades. The fixture dated back to the 1930s, and was born out of the close friendship between two football legends, Arsenal’s Herbert Chapman and his Rangers counterpart Bill Struth. The series had been inaugurated at a time when the two teams were the dominant forces north and south of the border and soon came to be regarded as a Battle of Britain. Like Chapman, Struth was a charismatic individual, who had been at the helm at Ibrox since 1920 and was no less influential in building Rangers into a major football force and a modern club than Chapman was at Arsenal. In the first year, the two teams met in a double-header, a week apart, the first at Ibrox, the second at Highbury, on September 20 and 27, 1933, with Rangers prevailing both times. Thereafter, the fixture was restricted to one match a year, with the venue alternating between London and Glasgow, either at the start or the end of the league season. The regular sequence of matches ended at Highbury in August 1967 with Arsenal earning a 3-0 victory thanks to goals from Jon Sammels (2) and ‘Geordie’ Armstrong. And a year later the last game in the series at Ibrox ended, fittingly, in a 2-2 draw. And although the last friendly Arsenal played against Rangers was at the beginning of the 2003/04 season the ties between the two clubs remain strong. Before Christmas of last year a group of the Club’s Junior Gunners made the long trip north to Ibrox to watch a league match between Rangers and Hearts. Results from Arsenal v Rangers friendlies: 1933/34 Rangers 2, Arsenal 0 (Ibrox) 1933/34 Arsenal 1, Rangers 3 (Highbury) 1934/35 Arsenal 1, Rangers 1 (Highbury) 1935/36 Rangers 2, Arsenal 2 (Ibrox) 1936/37 Arsenal 2, Rangers 1 (Highbury) 1938/38 Rangers 1, Arsenal 0 (Ibrox) 1951/52 Arsenal 3, Rangers 2 (Highbury) 1953/54 Rangers 1, Arsenal 2 (Ibrox) 1954/55 Arsenal 3, Rangers 3 (Highbury) 1955/56 Rangers 2, Arsenal 0 (Ibrox) 1958/59 Arsenal 0, Rangers 3 (Highbury) 1960/61 Rangers 4, Arsenal 2 (Ibrox) 1962/63 Arsenal 2, Rangers 2 (Highbury, Jack Kelsey Testimonial) 1966/67 Rangers 2, Arsenal 0 (Ibrox) 1967/68 Arsenal 3, Rangers 0 (Highbury) 1968/69 Rangers 2, Arsenal 2 (Ibrox) 1973/74 Rangers 1, Arsenal 2 (Ibrox) 1980/81 Rangers 2, Arsenal 0 (Ibrox) 1989/90 Rangers 1, Arsenal 2 (Ibrox) 1996/97 Rangers 3, Arsenal 0 (Ibrox) 1996/97 Arsenal 3, Rangers 3 (Highbury, Nigel Winterburn Testimonial) 2003/04 Rangers 0, Arsenal 3 (Ibrox) [/quote]
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