Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo
I believe in Joe Hendry
- Oct 4, 2003
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Still Arsenal gave the manager who had lost Leeds City their place in the league - which they gratefully accepted - a job as their manager. Cheats or .................... just convenient coincidence? Anyway, the undeserving sods have still never won promotion to the PL/1st. division. Fact.
As I said in my previous post Arsenal didn’t take Leeds City place in the first division.
Leeds City spent their entire league history playing in the second division, they were never promoted, so it was impossible for Arsenal to replace them in the first division.
Also I’m not sure what coincidence there is in Herbert Chapman taking the Arsenal job about 6 years after Leeds City were expelled from the Football League.
Arsenal have previously won promotion to the First Division, they were promoted in the 1903-04 season after finishing second. They were then relegated at the end of the 1912-13 season.
When Arsenal were allowed into the first division for the resumption of football after World War I they were admitted to an expanded division that had gone from 20 teams to 22 teams. They’d finished 5th in the final season before football stopped. If they took the place of anyone it would have been third place Barnsley who weren’t promoted or Spurs who finished bottom at the end of the 1914-15 season and could have been reprieved from relegation.
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