Herbert Chapman stats

Arsenal Football Club is open to receive applications for the position of TEAM MANAGER. He must be experienced and possess the highest qualifications for the post, both as to ability and personal character. Gentlemen whose sole ability to build up a good side depends on the payment of heavy and exhorbitant [sic] transfer fees need not apply.
Athletic News. 11.05.25

Herbert Chapman was a genius. There was no one else in English Football with his vision. He was a modernizing force in the game, not just as a spectacle, but as a tactically sophisticated affair. The notion of space and movement as crucial factors in the outcome of the game. The notion of thinking. The notion of preparing, not just physically, but mentally, of having a plan, of having a better plan, of having the best plan. 

Season	Div.	Pos.	FA Cup
Northampton Town
169 games  49.7% win
1907-08	SL	8th	R1
1908-09	SL	winners	R1
1909-10	SL	4th	R2
1910-11	SL	2nd	R2
Leeds City
119 games 42.85 % win
1912-13	Div 2	6th	R1
1913-14	Div 2	4th	R2
1914-15	Div 2	15th	R2
The 8 games Leeds City played in 1919-20 are not included
Huddersfield Town
194 games 48.97% win
1921-22	Div 1	14th	winners
1922-23	Div 1	3rd	R3
1923-24	Div 1	winners	R3
1924-25	Div 1	winners	R1
Arsenal
403 games 49.88% win
1925-26	Div 1	2nd	R6
1926-27	Div 1	11th	Runners up
1927-28	Div 1	10th	Semi final
1928-29	Div 1	9th	R6
1929-30	Div 1	14th	winners
1930-31	Div 1	winners	R4
1931-32	Div 1	2nd	Runners up
1932-33	Div 1	winners	R3
1933-34*	Div 1	winners	R6
·         Mr Chapman died  6th  January 1934
Career
885 games 48.47% win

There are two kinds of visionary; those that dream of a whole new world, and those who dream of just one thing. Chapman's vision was of the greatest football team in the world. His genius was actually creating something close to that.
Bernard Joy

Walter Tull

Born in Kent of a Barbadian father and an English mother, Walter Tull played 20 first team matches for Tottenham Hotspur  between 1909 and 1911.He also toured South America with them. In 1911 Herbert Chapman signed him for Northampton Town. He played 111 games for Northampton up until the outbreak of the war in 1914.
During the First World War Tull served with the Footballers' Battalions of the Middlesex Regiment. When he was promoted from the ranks in 1917 Tull became the first black/ mixed race officer in the British army. He was killed in action in 1918.

Through his actions, Tull ridiculed the barriers of ignorance that tried to deny negroes/mulattos equality with their contemporaries. His life stands testament to a determination to confront those people and those obstacles that sought to diminish him and the world in which he lived. It reveals a man, though rendered breathless in his prime, whose strong heart still beats loudly.
Tull's epitaph: Phil Vasili