Everyone with an interest in English football knows that this season's UK Premiership winners were Arsenal Football Club but how many know how the club started or what it was first called? When it was originally formed in 1886, the club had very humble beginnings as a departmental team at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich. Most of the players were workers in a department at the Royal Arsenal called 'Dial Square' and so they decided on an appropriate name for themselves which was 'Dial Square FC'. They later changed their name to Royal Armoury and eventually, just before World War One, when they moved to their current home at Highbury, the name was changed simply to Arsenal which is how
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