1984–85 Arsenal F.C. season
season of football team
The 1984–85 season was Arsenal Football Club's 59th consecutive season in the top flight of English football. After a promising start to the season, they slipped to seventh in the Football League First Division.
After the previous season's League Cup exit to Walsall, Arsenal once-again exited cup competition to lower-division opponents. The team lost to second-division Oxford United in the League Cup and third-division York City in the FA Cup.
Viv Anderson was one important addition to the squad, strengthening their defense when he joined Arsenal for £250,000. 18-year old Tony Adams made sixteen league appearances after his debut the previous season.
Midway through the season, Pat Jennings was replaced by John Lukic as the first choice keeper.
Season summary
Arsenal's start to the 1984/85 season had been relatively promising, with eight wins in the first eleven league matches. Don Howe had taken over from Terry Neill in December 1983 and results had improved. At the end of October 1984 saw Arsenal looking like a team that could challenge for the title; they had reclaimed their place at the top of Division One.
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