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The Founders: Dial Square, 1886–87
Robert Thompson
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No individual photograph is known to survive for Robert Thompson; see the note on the players index for why we use a plain card rather than guess.
Decades later, in 1953, Thompson gave his own account of Dial Square's first match, claiming he (not Charles Duggan) had played, and that he scored the club's first-ever goal. It's a claim that still complicates the official record of that founding fixture.
At Arsenal
Appearances
Not individually recorded
Goals
Not individually recorded