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| George Morrell was a
Scottish
football manager. He was manager of
Woolwich Arsenal from
1908 to
1915, and was in
charge of the team during its move from
Plumstead
in south east
London, to its current home at
Arsenal Stadium,
Highbury,
and its subsequent renaming to "Arsenal" in
1914. Although in
his first season he helped the team finish 6th in the League, the club fell into
debt in later years and had to sell many of its best players. He holds the
dubious distinction of being the only Arsenal manager to have overseen a
relegation;
Woolwich Arsenal dropped from the
First Division to the
Second after finishing bottom in
1913. In
1915, Morrell's
Arsenal finished 5th in the Second Division, high enough to get them elected
back into the expanded First Division, when competition resumed after the
conclusion of
World
War One; however,
Wolves and
Barnsley had finished higher without promotion. Arsenal's return to the
First Division appears to have been mainly thanks to political machinations by
their chairman,
Henry
Norris, rather than their performance.
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