By Mark Brindle, Supporter Liaison Officer
Our club would not even have existed if it were not for the mechanics of war.
As we all know, when David Danskin and his friends sat down in 1886 to form a team from the munitions workers at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich, little could they have known they were creating one of greatest clubs in football history.
By the time Europe was plunged into the Second World War in 1939, the club's fortunes had changed dramatically on the field of play since the end of the First World War.