Dial Square won 6-0 and met in the Royal Oak pub, next to Woolwich Arsenal station, on Christmas Day 1886. And as they sat in the Royal Oak, the founding fathers chose a new name - their place of work ...

In late 1886, a gaggle of workers from the Woolwich Arsenal Armament Factory decided to form a football team. They called themselves Dial Square after a workshop within the Arsenal, and on December 11 ...

Founded as Dial Square, named after one of the workshops at the Arsenal munitions factory in Woolwich, south-east London, in 1886, they soon became Royal Arsenal and then Woolwich Arsenal in 1891.