FACT: for the first 50 or so years at Highbury, the North Bank was sometimes known as the “Laundry End” due to a steam laundry that was located on Gillespie Road.

FACT: the 1999 flick Plunkett And Macleane starring Robert Carlyle features two characters called Dixon and Winterburn.

FACT: During its time as Arsenal’s home, Highbury was also used as a venue on a handful of occasions for games of baseball, cricket, hockey, rugby – and of course the famous Cooper-Ali boxing fight.

These fact-tastic facts, Reader, can be found by opening just one page-spread of the new version of the Arsenal Miscellany, published by Vision Sports.

The little hardback book is a compact compilation of a range of Arsenal related trivia and will even fit inside a large jacket pocket during bitter long winter-time trips to away games oop north.

Or if you’re too embarrassed to be seen with a book on awaydays, it makes for ideal bed-time or bog-time reading.

And now YOU can win a FREE copy of the book, right here on G4L. Simply answer this easy question:

Arsenal have lifted the Charity Shield a dozen times, but on one of these occasions it was shared with the opposition. Who did Arsenal share the Charity Shield with? Was it:

a) Sheffield Wednesday
b) Preston North End
c) T*ttenham

Click on the “contact” tab above and send over your answers. The lucky winner will be announced on 16th November.

BONNE CHANCE!

(Alternatively, you can buy the book direct from its publishers here)

Update: well done to Mr John Pickford from London, who correctly answered c). Arsenal shared the charidee shield with that lot up the road in 1991, after the Gunners won the league by losing only one game all season.

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