A bit of bonus extras on Arsenal's scandalous 1930/31 season, and what people 90 years ago were thinking about the future of football
Sources
Academic work:
Matthew Taylor, The Leaguers: The Making of Professional Football in England, 1900-1939
British Newspaper Archive:
Sheffield Independent
Derby Daily Telegraph
Shields Daily News
Portsmouth Evening News
Lancashire Evening Post
Dundee Evening Telegraph
Edinburgh Evening News
Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer
The People
Belfast Telegraph
Birmingham Daily Gazette
Athletic News
Sheffield Daily Telegraph.
Aberdeen Press and Journal
Daily Herald
Burnley News
General reference/web pages/wiki:
Gerry Farrell, ‘Halting the alien invasion’, The Football Pink, https://footballpink.net/2019-3-1-halting-the-alien-invasion/
Nick Harris, ‘The world league’, The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/football/2003/jul/27/sport.comment,
Nick Harris, ‘Home and Away: How Arsenal’s imports changed the landscape’, The Independent, https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/home-and-away-how-arsenals-imports-changed-the-landscape-483550.html
‘Gerry Keyser’, Arsenal club website, https://www.arsenal.com/historic/players/gerry-keyser
‘Bill Harper’, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Harper_(footballer,_born_1897)
Mark Andrews, ‘The Arsenal’s Clock End Clock’, thearsenalhistory.com (September 2019), http://www.thearsenalhistory.com/?p=13803
David Jack information from Wikipedia page on history of football transfer fee records, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_association_football_transfers#Historical_progression
