In this history pod, Tim talks about how Arsenal won the 1970-71 League and FA Cup double, becoming only the second team to achieve the double in the 20th century. Tim sets the context for Arsenal enduring over a decade of mediocrity in the mid-50s and 1960s, English football’s more competitive, egalitarian model, Arsenal’s struggles with status anxiety due to the shadow of those dominant teams of the 1930s. Then Tim moves on to Arsenal appointing their physio Bertie Mee as manager to instill discipline into a talented side, as well as key figures like Don Howe, Frank McLintock, Charlie George and how Arsenal were more than the sum of their parts. There is also the crucial context of losing League Cup Finals in 1968 and 1969 and winning the Fairs Cup in 1970 and how McLintock, Mee and Howe forged a steely team spirit that would become their bigge ...