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DID YOU KNOW: Unexpected facts about Arsenal

  /  Afy

From today, we will provide some interesting facts about the Gunners every day at 20:00 CET! 

1 – Arsenal are the only team still in existence that has never been relegated. They have been in the top flight of English football since the 1919/20 campaign.

2 – Arsenal hold the record for the most players from a single club in an England team. Seven Gunners lined up for England against Italy in a friendly match in 1934.

3 – They are given the name Arsenal, and the nickname 'The Gunners' because they were formed by a group of cannon makers at the Woolwich Arsenal in 1886.

4 – Arsene Wenger, the ex Arsenal boss, was the first foreign manager to lift the Premier League title when the Gunners won it in 1997/98.

5 – On 31st January 2010, Arsenal's game against Manchester United was the first match to be broadcast on television in 3D.

More facts are waiting for you tomorrow, have a good night Gooners!

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