From 10 league games without a win, to the Double. How quickly things change
In February 1970 there was considerable disgruntlement in the air at Arsenal as the club did indeed make it 10 in a row without a win. Just one year on and the first notions that Arsenal might not only win the league but also do the double were perhaps only whispered by those drunk on the speed of the turn around – but whisper they were, and of course it really did happen.
And yet by this day in 1976 we were facing the possibility of relegation – and not for the first time in the 1970s.
Club success does change – but it goes both up and down, and nothing is ever certain. If these anniversary files teach us anything they certainly teach us that.
21 February 1891: Arsenal 3 Casuals 2 in the London Senior Cup. Royal Arsenal’s last trophy
21 February 1899: Arthur Kennedy became Woolwich Arsenal secretary manager....