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Vic-tory Through Harmony
Arsenal said goodbye to several decorated, long term servants of the football club this summer. None more long serving or more decorated than Vic Akers OBE. Akers was the first manager of the Arsenal Women (neé ‘Ladies’) football team. He coached them to *draws breath* 11 league titles, 9 FA Cups, 10 League Cups and a European Cup. Vic was also the kit manager for the first team, where his penchant for wearing shorts on the bench even when the earth had descended into a glacial wasteland earned him a kind of cult status. Islington born Akers joined Arsenal in 1986 to take up a role in the Arsenal in the Community scheme after a career in the lower leagues as an uncompromising...
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