Arsenal players will today wear The Royal British Legion’s poppy on their shirt as a mark or respect for the lives lost in war. Men, women and animals who fought so that we can live as we do today. A poppy wreath will be laid, The Last Post played and then a minutes silence will fall. During The Great War, Arsenal lost eight players; Spencer Bassett, Albert Beney, John Flanagan, James Maxwell, Charles Randall, Robert Houston, Joseph Dines and Dick Roose. We’re too young to remember them at Arsenal, but the club will never forget them. Just as some of us will never forget how both World Wars and others since, have taken loved ones from us far too early. The players shirts will be...
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