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Arsenal used a total of 19 players during the 1990–91 season and there were nine different goalscorers. There were also two squad members who did not make a first-team appearance in the campaign. Seaman, Winterburn, Dixon and Bould started in all 38 league matches. The team scored a total of 86 goals in all competitions.
The 1989–90 season was Arsenal Football Club's 64th consecutive season in the top flight of English football. [1] [2] After winning the title the previous season, Arsenal finished fourth in 1989–90, behind champions Liverpool, runners-up Aston Villa and third-placed Tottenham Hotspur in the title challenge.
Percy Sands made 350 appearances in the early years, when the team was known as Woolwich Arsenal. ... 1984–1990 1996–2001: 298: 0: 298: 0 Martin Hayes
Arsenal took their second league title in three seasons despite a season during which it often looked as though the good points would be outnumbered by the bad points. A player brawl in a league fixture against Manchester United in October saw Arsenal have two points deducted, and a few weeks later captain Tony Adams was given a four-month prison sentence for drink-driving (he ended up serving ...
23 July 1990 – Dave Deacon, 61, played 66 league games for Ipswich Town, many of them under the management of Alf Ramsey, and later played for Cambridge United when they were still a non-league team. 9 August 1990 – Joe Mercer, 76, who won a total of three league titles as a player with Everton (1939) and Arsenal (1948 and 1953), and 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]
On 20 October 1990, Manchester United Football Club faced Arsenal Football Club in a Football League First Division fixture at Old Trafford, during the 1990–91 season. Arsenal won by a single goal, but the game was also significant for a brawl between both teams.
1 January 1990 - The new decade begins with Arsenal beating Crystal Palace 4–1 at Highbury to cut Liverpool's lead at the top of the First Division, as Kenny Dalglish's men are held to a 2–2 at the City Ground by Nottingham Forest. Title challenge outsiders Southampton win 4–2 at bottom club Charlton Athletic.