David Danskin

In 1885 Danskin moved to London to find work, and took a job at the Dial Square workshop at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich.

There he met several football enthusiasts, amongst them Jack Humble and former Nottingham Forest players Fred Beardsley and Morris Bates.

Together with Humble, Danskin is generally credited as the driving force behind the formation of a works football team, Dial Square FC.

[1] However, after an injury incurred in a match against Clapton in January 1889, Danskin elected to step down from the side and only played a few more rare occasions after that.

Nevertheless, he was one of the few founding members of Arsenal to live to see the club's rise to success in the 1930s; he reportedly cheered the side's 1936 FA Cup win from his sickbed, while listening to the radio commentary.

Arsenal's squad for the 1888–89 season. Danskin is seated on the right end of the bench with his arms folded.