On the 4th August 1948, David Danskin died in a home for the elderly in Warwick at the age of 85. Danskin was a founding member of Arsenal, which at the time was founded as Dial Square FC. By profession, Danskin was a mechanical engineer and a footballer for Royal Arsenal between 1886 and 1889. He was born on the 9th January 1863 in Fife in Scotland. Danskin was buried in Coventry in the London Road Cemetery.
More recently in the year 2003, French left-back Gael Clichy signed for Arsenal for the fee of £250000 from AS Cannes. Clichy played 187 games for Arsenal in the 8 years he spent at the club between 2003 and 2011, scoring just one goal. He moved to Manchester City on the 4th July 2011 for a reported fee of £7 million, 28 times the price for which he was brought to England by Arsene Wenger.
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