Gunners' old programme auctioned

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A football match programme dating back more than 100 years is expected to fetch more than £3,500 at auction.

The single sheet programme for the game between Royal Arsenal and Gainsborough Trinity in 1892 is under the hammer at Sotheby's Olympia showroom on Tuesday.

The match took place only six years after Arsenal was first founded as Dial Square in 1886, before it later changed its name as well as its location.

An exhibition of football memorabilia opens on Monday ahead of the auction.

Auctioneer Graham Budd said the programme was an extremely rare find.

He said: "It's a piece of really early Arsenal memorabilia and there's a lot of bigArsenal collectors around.

"It's being sold by a private collector but I do know he happened to acquireit from a family that had roots close to south-east London, where Arsenaloriginated.

"It had probably been tucked away in drawers or something and finallyresurfaced."