Lightning Legend
Nobody has the foggiest idea why Arsenal FC have had lightning bolts on their kits since the iconic JVC ones in the 1990s. Until now.![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/86210025ecd4bc243771b6a7a1f1933271d56537076e83783f8a08afcbbff859/AFC---LL-2-1.gif)
It turns out Herbert Chapman had a lightning bolt neck tattoo, Arsene Wenger managed the Nagasaki Lightning Strikes, and the Clock End got struck by lightning and has been three seconds slow ever since.
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![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8406af6a03f714e849cbf95e00ebdb49dc1dd651a64a315d8f7ba81c3843ffa9/AFC---LL---TITLE-STILL-01.png)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/504d8ee23351c79222fd94ccde0e9012f2a65532f9b649e76e8b4c0b161474b3/AFC---LL---TROSSARD-STILL-01.png)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bef86174c58b4d76169cf813d02bac7a5b69242f12d86883ab1d67f42fd52463/AFC---A-FOR-SITE.gif)
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Avid Gooners, Joel and Ayshe, take us behind the scenes of their beloved club to uncover some further flashes of fanciful folklore.
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/db909fd24cc338931312f904e361d36b3cc6b30d28e4cc0059eb686ded3a3238/PIE-BOLT-1.gif)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a84610b190a8ebde4f4dd0b7647925120e0b4ed4b706fa71d2117832fd27bdae/THUNDERCLAP-3000-1.gif)
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The downpour of Lightning Legend is seemingly endless. Apparently God based his design for lightning bolts on Arsenal’s shirts. And once, during a particularly grey ‘one-nil to the Arsenal’ at Highbury the Library, even the thunder didn’t clap.
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