Our Thursday programme series last week went back 56 years, to the first ever floodlight match at Tottenham Hotspur's White Hart lane. Today, we hop across North London to Highbury, and Arsenal's first major floodlit fixture against Hapoel Tel Aviv.

Programme cover courtesy of the highly-recommended Footysphere.

Our new Thursday series looks at classic football programmes, that perfect accompaniment for a trip down memory lane. Today, an NASL team visits England gets rowdy.

Birmingham City vs Tampa Bay Rowdies, October 1st 1983.

Programme cover courtesy of Footysphere.

The second in our Thursday series looking at classic football programmes, that perfect accompaniment for a trip down memory lane. Today, England's West Bromwich Albion take on a mysterious "China Eleven" in a 1970s international friendly.

West Bromwich Albion vs.

In the latest in our Thursday classic programmes series, we go back to March 1981 and two teams recently in the news taking on each other in something like their glory years. Watford would be promoted the next season to the top flight for the first time as they rose from the fourth division to the first in just five years, while in the NASL's summer 1981 season, the Whitecaps would win their division and reach the playoff semi-finals just a couple of years after their only Soccer Bowl triumph.

Our new Thursday series looks at classic football programmes, that perfect accompaniment for a trip down memory lane. This week: we go back 56 years, to the first ever floodlight match at Tottenham Hotspur's White Hart lane, with the programme's cover promising Spurs were in for "very attractive visitors" and "very sporting opponents" with the visit of Racing Club de Paris.

Sheffield Football Club vs. Queen's Park, Centenary Celebration

This match, the world's first ever club centenary celebration, marked 100 years from the day of the founding of Sheffield Football Club, generally recognised as the world's oldest club who still play today.

Programme cover courtesy of the excellent Footysphere.

This seems like a week that Portsmouth fans need cheering up, so here's a reminder of olden days: a beautiful programme from 1956, featuring what Portsmouth is best known for, its naval heritage: H.M.S. Victory was Lord Nelson's ship in the Battle of Trafalgar, and is now docked in Portsmouth as a wonderful museum ship.