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The Chapman Revolution, from 1925
Alex James
Half-back1929–1937
A 1936 Ogden's cigarette card of James survives and is hosted on Wikimedia Commons, but Commons' own file page flags its US copyright status as unresolved under the URAA, so it isn't reproduced here.
Signed from Preston North End, James was the creative heart of Chapman's great side: a playmaker whose short, quick passing set Bastin, Lambert and Hulme running in behind defences throughout the 1930s. His baggy shorts became one of the most recognisable images of the era.
At Arsenal
Appearances
261
Goals
27