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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