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During the 1970–71 English football season, Arsenal F.C. competed in the Football League First Division. Arsenal became just the fourth side in history to win the league and FA Cup double . For the first time in their history, Arsenal remained unbeaten at home for the entirety of the league campaign, losing just once there in all competitions ...
Arsenal, ahead on the away-goals rule, had no room to rest as Mulder hit the post. Finally, Sammels added a third goal and Arsenal had won their first European trophy and their first trophy in seventeen years. [5] [7] The 1970 World Cup meant that the season was compressed to finish in April. Arsenal finished a distant twelfth, having focused ...
Arsenal faced European Cup holders Ajax in the quarterfinals, playing against Johan Cruyff and other great young players. They lost 2-1 away, meaning a 1-0 victory at home would take Arsenal to the semifinals. Instead, Arsenal lost 1-0 thanks to a George Graham own goal. [2] New signing Ball was especially influential in Arsenal's FA Cup run.
When Arsenal was founded in 1886 by munition workers' from Woolwich, the club resisted the lure of professionalism and remained an amateur side. [12] Success in local cup competitions soon followed, and a tie against Derby County in the FA Cup on 17 January 1891 led to the opposition approaching two of Arsenal's players, in view of offering them professional contracts. [12]
Arsenal overcame Chelsea in a 2-1 victory at home in front of a season-record crowd to reach the quarterfinals. They lost 2-1 to Queens Park Rangers , ending their League Cup run. By the end of the season, only two members of the 1971 Double side remained in the first team: George Armstrong and Pat Rice .
The same season, Arsenal had only finished 12th in the league, perhaps distracted by their European campaign, and did not look like league contenders. Yet the following season, 1970–71, Arsenal went on to become only the second club of the 20th century to win the FA Cup and League Double, the club's first.
Arsenal have often been stereotyped as a defensive and "boring" side, especially during the 1970s and 1980s. [ 210 ] [ 211 ] In the 1997 film The Full Monty the principal characters move forward in a line and raise their hands, deliberately mimicking the Arsenal defence's offside trap , in an attempt to co-ordinate their striptease routine. [ 207 ]
Simpson was a leading figure in Arsenal's brief period of success in the early 1970s. After losing both the 1968 and 1969 League Cup finals, Simpson was a key part of the side that won the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1969–70 , making a total of 57 appearances in all competitions that season.