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Plans are underway to pay tribute to the founder of Arsenal FC - whose final resting place is an unmarked grave in Coventry.

David Danskin would have had no idea that the team that he founded with work colleagues at the Royal Arsenal munitions factory in Woolwich would go on to be one of the biggest teams on the planet.

But despite being forever etched in the history books as the man who started what became a giant of English football, David Danskin came to rest in an unmarked grave at Coventry's London Road cemetery .

Now, 69 years after being laid to rest, plans have been made to give celebrate David in a more fitting way.

A spokesman for Arsenal told us: "Arsenal Football Club is working with stonemasons to organise an appropriate headstone and looking at a date for a memorial service next year where representatives from the club will be present.”

Earlier this year, CoventryLive wrote about the remarkable life of David Danskin, and how he came to be in Coventry.

Following this, a number of conversations were held between local historians including Lionel Bird and Ian Woolley, Chairman of the Friends of London Road Cemetery, Arsenal supporters groups, and the football club themselves.

Together, they were able to get in touch with family of David, and plans have now been put in place to pay tribute to him early next year.

What has the club said?

In a statement, an Arsenal football club spokesperson said: "David Danskin is one of the founding fathers of Arsenal Football Club .

"With fellow workers in the munitions factory in Woolwich, he founded a team with three friends, each contributing a sixpence and Danskin adding another three shillings to buy a football, in October 1886.

"Arsenal is a football club whose community values are as true today as they were back then and it is important that David Danskin has the recognition he deserves for founding our football club.

"We are working together with David’s descendants and our supporters to ensure David Danskin is remembered appropriately in his resting place.

"Arsenal Football Club is working with stonemasons to organise an appropriate headstone and looking at a date for a memorial service next year where representatives from the club will be present.”

Who was David Danskin?

Born in Burntisland, Fife in 1863, David Danskin would go on to found Arsenal after moving to London to work at the Royal Arsenal munitions factory.

A qualified mechanical engineer, David was a keen football player, and was the first captain of the club, when they beat Eastern Wanderers FC 6-0.

On Christmas Day 1886 the club changed their name to Royal Arsenal from Dial Square FC.

By 1890, David Danskin's football career was at an end - believed to be as a result of leg injuries that he had suffered, and a heavy work schedule.

(Image: Yui Mok/PA Wire)

How did he end up in Coventry?

After his football career, David founded his own bicycle business in London, which proved to be a success.

In 1907, he sold the business for £550 - which would be worth around £64,000 today.

David would then move to Coventry - having landed a job as an examiner at the Standard Motor Company.

He moved into a two-bedroom semi-detached house in North Street, Upper Stoke - just a stone's throw from the Rose and Woodbine pub.

In what is a quirky coincidence, he happened to be close neighbours with Samuel Bullivant, the former Coventry City FC player and trainer.

His house was badly damaged during the Blitz, and his trunk containing football jerseys, medals and family photographs were destroyed.

In 1942, he was admitted to Warwick Hospital, where he would remain until his death on August 4, 1948, at the age of 85.

Three days later, he was buried at London Road Cemetery, in Coventry.

Earlier this year, Ian Woolley, Chairman of the Friends of London Road Cemetery discovered that David was buried in an unmarked grave, and along with Coventry City historian Lionel Bird, embarked on a journey to organise a fitting tribute.

It is expected that more details in regards to the memorial event will follow in the coming weeks or months.

The full story of David Danskin's incredible life can be read here .

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