The last time Arsenal were bottom of the league

By Tony Attwood
This ever-evolving series of articles focuses on Arsenal’s managers, and what the club looked like through each era of management.  You can see the full list of managers at Manager by manager and from there go to an index of articles for each manager that we’ve covered.
In doing this I am trying to give myself (and anyone who happens to read – and quite amazingly we are now approaching 100,000 visits a month – I am staggered) a view of what things were like at the club under that manager.
This can be hard for many reasons.  The Leslie Knighton series, which we’ve just done, had the problem that a) it was a long time ago and b) what we know about Knighton mostly comes from his autobiography.  It took a while to realise just how lopsided that autobiography was, and just how many people since it...