I’m still pursuing the question of whether the late marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm was an Arsenal fan.
He lived in the right area of North London for it and it is known that he was a football fan.
He occasionally mentions Arsenal (and Spurs) in his writings, for example (Labour in the Great City, New Left Review 1/166, 1987)
On one occasion at a literary festival he specifically referred to a point made by the former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger, which is circumstantial evidence and no more that he was a Gooner.
The reference is in the Times (6th October 2007)
“This is a type of internal contradiction. There was a nice interview with Arsene Wenger [the manager of Arsenal] the other day which sketches it out very well. He said: ‘I’m not interested in national teams but I know we have got to have them because that’s what keeps the money coming in’.”
Research work in progress
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