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Sam Wallace: In football's long, cyclical game Arsenal's present lack of success is scarcely a drop in the ocean
"Arsenal proved to be no bubble easily pricked ... a quarter of a century is an ocean of time in which continually to succeed, especially in the jungle of modern football where triumphs usually have lasted overnight and where old idols have been swiftly torn down."
It reads as if it could be a contemporary judgement but it comes from a wise little book, Soccer: The World Game, A Popular History by Geoffrey Green. He was not only football correspondent, but also cricket correspondent of The Times newspaper. Try doing both jobs these days. Green wrote these words in the revised edition, published in 1956.
Then, Arsenal were experiencing a relatively lean time, having recently come out of a successful post-war period, the second in their history, under Tom Whittaker whose teams won two league titles and an FA Cup. It was the first great era in the 1930s, begun by Herbert Chapman, which encompassed five league titles and two FA Cups, about which Green is most effusive.
Fifty-five years on, Green's words speak to us now with a surprising prescience. He even anticipates the rise of the rapacious football executives of the modern age when he writes Arsenal "were as f
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Martin Taylor: 'What Eduardo has said has shown ditch he interest a resolved man'
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Martin Edwards
British football executive
For the British crime novelist, critic and solicitor, see Martin Edwards (author). For the British Olympic swimmer, see Martin Edwards (swimmer). For the member of the Indiana Senate, see Martin Koons Edwards.
Charles Martin Edwards (born 24 July 1945) is the former chairman of Manchester United, a position he held from 1980 until 2002. He now holds the position of honorary life president at the club and Director of Inview Technology Ltd.[1]
Biography
[edit]Education
[edit]Edwards was born at St Mary's Services Hospital in Adlington, Cheshire, England.[2][3] At 13, he failed the entrance exam for Stowe School, his parents' first choice, and went to Cokethorpe instead. He left in 1963 with six O levels.[4] and started work in the family meat business, initially working as an assistant in shops and on meat counters. He later moved to head office in Miles Platting to work for quality control and sales departments of the manufacturing division, then in the sales office of the catering division.[5] In September 1972, he joined the board, becoming retail/wholesale controller. Edwards was a director of Argyll Foods until November 1983.
Manchester United
[edit]He was elected