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The 1981–82 season was Arsenal Football Club's 56th consecutive season in the top flight of English football. The club ended their campaign fifth in the Football League First Division . After losing Liam Brady in 1980, Arsenal lost Frank Stapleton , Arsenal's 1980-81 top scorer, to Manchester United .
2 January 1982: Holders Tottenham Hotspur beat Arsenal 1–0 in the North London derby in the FA Cup third round. Liverpool beat Swansea City 4–0, while Manchester United are beaten 1–0 by Second Division Watford.
Arsenal reached the semi-finals of the FA Cup and League Cup but on both occasions were beaten by Manchester United. [1] Arsenal's foray into the 1982-83 UEFA Cup was short as they lost 8–4 on aggregate to Spartak Moscow, including a 5–2 drubbing at Highbury. Arsenal fans demonstrated that they could appreciate fine football for what it was.
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]
24 August 1982: The Shankly Gates are unveiled at Anfield, honouring former Liverpool manager Bill Shankly almost a year after his death. 25 August 1982: Arsenal sign 22-year-old striker Lee Chapman from Stoke City for £500,000. 26 August 1982: Bob Paisley announces that this season as Liverpool manager, his ninth in charge, will be his last. [1]
Arsenal also bought defensive midfielder Peter Nicholas from Crystal Palace in March 1981. He joined Arsenal when the club had won a grand total of three of the last 14 games played. After that Arsenal played nine, and only dropped two points and Nicholas didn’t play on the losing side.
Arsenal Southampton: Matches played: 462: Goals scored: 1,173 (2.54 per match) ... Locations of the Football League Second Division 1981–1982 teams. Third Division
The 1981–82 Football League Cup (known as the Milk Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the 22nd season of the Football League Cup, a knockout competition for England's top 92 football clubs. The competition started on 31 August 1981 and ended with the final on 13 March 1982.