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Football League 1931-32
1932-33 
  
Final League Table - Division I
 Teams in a silver box denotes a player representing England in 1931-32
 Teams in italics were relegated to the second division for the following season
Team P Home Away ₧
W D L F A W D L F A
Everton 42 18 0 3 84 30 8 4 9 32 34 56
Arsenal 42 14 5 2 52 16 8 5 8 38 32 54
Sheffield Wednesday 42 14 4 3 60 28 8 2 11 36 54 50
Huddersfield Town 42 11 8 2 47 21 8 2 11 33 42 48
Aston Villa 42 15 1 5 64 28 4 7 10 40 44 46
West Bromwich Albion 42 12 4 5 46 21 8 2 11 31 34 46
Sheffield United 42 13 3 5 47 32 7 3 11 33 43 46
Portsmouth 42 14 2 5 37 21 5 5 11 25 41 45
Birmingham 42 13 5 3 48 22 5 3 13 30 45 44
Liverpool 42 13 4 4 56 38 6 2 13 25 55 44
Newcastle United 42 13 5 3 52 31 5 1 15 28 56 42
Chelsea 42 12 4 5 43 27 4 4 13 26 46 40
Sunderland 42 11 4 6 42 29 4 6 11 25 44 40
Manchester City 42 10 5 6 49 30 3 7 11 34 43 38
Derby County 42 13 5 3 51 25 1 5 15 20 50 38
Blackburn Rovers 42 12 3 6 57 41 4 3 14 32 54 38
Bolton Wanderers 42 15 1 5 51 25 2 3 16 21 55 38
Middlesbrough 42 12 3 6 41 29 3 5 13 23 60 38
Leicester City 42 11 3 7 46 39 4 4 13 28 55 37
Blackpool 42 9 4 8 42 40 3 5 13 23 62 33
Grimsby Town 42 11 4 6 39 28 2 2 17 28 70 32
West Ham United 42 9 5 7 35 37 3 2 16 27 70 31

Everton twice recorded five-match winning runs, from 3 October 1931:
Blackpool (h) 3-2, Sheffield United (a) 5-1, Sheffield Wednesday (h) 9-3, Aston Villa (a) 3-2, Newcastle (h) 8-1, before drawing 0-0 at Huddersfield on 7 November 1931.
Then, from 20 February 1932:
Sheffield United (h) 5-1, Sheffield Wednesday (a) 3-1, Aston Villa (h) 4-2, Huddersfield (h) 4-1, West Brom (h) 2-1, before drawing 0-0 at Chelsea on 26 March 1932. Arsenal also had a five-match winning sequence from 16 January 1932 (also winning three FA Cup ties during the period), before losing at Bolton on 2 March 1932.

Nottingham Forest, from the second division, also had a player representing England.

How The League Was Won 1931-32 Season
Timeline
37 Saturdays from 29 August 1931 to 7 May 1932 (a week later than the previous season), plus the first two Mondays and Wednesdays of the season, Christmas Day (Friday, 25th December 1931), New Year's Day (Friday, 1st January 1932), Good Friday, 25 March 1932 and Easter Monday, 28 March 1932
 There were four other games played on Mondays in September, one on a Tuesday and seven on Wednesdays, plus one on a Thursday in October. One additional game was played on the last Monday of the year (Boxing Day was a Saturday). In January, two games were played on a Monday and three on a Wednesday. Games were played throughout midweek in February (but not on Fridays). Seven games were played on Wednesdays in March, with three played on the day after Easter Monday. In April, one game was played on a Monday, one on a Thursday and five on Wednesdays, with one last midweek game played on the first Wednesday in May. The FA Cup took precedence on six weekends from the third round on 9 January 1932 to the final on 23 April 1932. There were two weeks between each round, apart from three weeks before the fifth round, and six weeks before the final. Last league games were on Saturday, 7 May 1932.
Wednesday, 27 April 1932
Huddersfield Town 1 Arsenal 2
   Leeds Road, Huddersfield (13,370)
Kelly ~ Coleman, Lambert
Arsenal still held slim hopes of retaining their title after an exhausting week both physically and emotionally. Newly-promoted Everton had led the table since October, but had lost at Middlesbrough, four days earlier, whilst Arsenal were losing the FA Cup Final at Wembley, thanks to a very dubious Newcastle equaliser where the ball appeared to have crossed the goal-line immediately before the final pass into the goalmouth. This was the first of four games in eight days for the Gunners. A draw at Aston Villa, two days later, was followed by victory at Huddersfield, leaving them three points adrift of Everton, with only two games remaining. One more win would be enough for Everton and two of their three remaining games were at home.
Top Two 27 April 1932
Team P ₧
Everton 39 53
Arsenal 40 50
  
Saturday, 30 April 1932
Everton 1 Bolton Wanderers 0
   Goodison Park, Liverpool (28,546)
Dean 33
Everton lost centre-half, Charlie Gee, to an injury after half an hour, but Bill Dean's 47th goal of the season for club and country gave them the title, following their second division championship success of the previous year. They were top scorers in the Football League, with 116 goals, yet this was their only goal of their last four matches. Arsenal's 5-0 win against Middlesbrough was in vain, though they did manage to reduce Everton's lead to two points at the end of the season.
 
The Elite League 1931-32 Season (games between the top four)
Team P Home Away ₧
W D L F A W D L F A
Arsenal 6 2 1 0 7 4 3 0 0 8 3 11
Everton 6 2 0 1 14 7 1 1 1 5 4 7
Huddersfield Town 6 1 1 1 7 3 0 1 2 3 9 4
Sheffield Wednesday 6 1 0 2 6 7 0 0 3 5 18 2
Everton and Huddersfield Town replaced Aston Villa and Portsmouth from the previous season's top four.
Games played between the top two:-
Saturday, 26 September 1931
 Arsenal 3 Everton 2
    Arsenal Stadium, London (47,637)
Hulme, Jack, Lambert ~ Critchley, Dean
Saturday, 6 February 1932
 Everton 1 Arsenal 3
    Goodison Park, Liverpool (56,698)
 Johnson ~ Hulme, Bastin, John
With Arsenal getting the better of them in their league meetings, Everton were also not the best when it came to Lancashire derby matches.
Lancashire Derbies League Top Four
 1931-32 Season
Team P ₧
Manchester City 10 13
Liverpool 10 12
Bolton Wanderers 10 10
Everton 10 10

The Continuous Post-War League 1919-32 (13 seasons)
Team P Wins ₧
Liverpool 546 232 606
Aston Villa 546 243 600
Sunderland 546 241 591
Huddersfield Town 504 225 583
Aston Villa reduced Liverpool's lead to six points. Huddersfield, with a season less, had the highest average points.
The 'Rolling Five-Season' League
 1927-32
Team P Wins ₧
Sheffield Wednesday 210 104 253
Aston Villa 210 105 245
Arsenal 210 93 245
Huddersfield Town 210 90 219
Sheffield Wednesday's two recent league triumphs, followed by successive third-place finishes finally took them to the top.


Champions: Everton
Manager: Tom McIntosh
1931-32 Most Appearances
by England Players
Name Played Goals
Tommy Johnson 41 22
Ted Sagar 41  
Warney Cresswell 40  
Bill Dean 38 45
Charlie Gee 38  
Tommy White 23 18
Warney Cresswell did not play for England in the 1931-32 season, Ted Sagar did not play for England until 1935 and Tommy White did not play for England until the end of the following season.
1931-32 Most Goals
by England Players
Name Played Goals
Bill Dean 38 45
Tommy Johnson 41 22
Tommy White 23 18












For the third year in a row, Irish international, Jimmy Dunne of Sheffield United, came second, but this time he was level with Huddersfield's Dave Mangnall on 33 goals.

England and the Football League 1931-32 Season
England's impact on the Football League
Of the 44 playing positions used during the 1931-32 season, 13 of the 22 first division clubs were represented, plus Nottingham Forest from the second division.
15 Football League games had a direct impact on two of England's games, on 17 October 1931 and 9 April 1932.
As a result, on 17 October, England took Aston Villa's Eric Houghton and Tom Waring, Birmingham's Harry Hibbs, Derby's Sammy Crooks, Huddersfield's Austen Campbell and Roy Goodall, Leeds's Willis Edwards, Leicester's Ernie Hine, Nottingham Forest's Tommy Graham, Portsmouth's Jack Smith, and Ernie Blenkinsop and Alf Strange of Sheffield Wednesday. On 9 April, Blenkinsop, Crooks, Houghton, Strange and Waring were again missing from their clubs, as were Birmingham's Lewis Stoker, Chelsea's Peter O'Dowd, Everton's Tommy Johnson, Newcastle's Sam Weaver, Sheffield United's Bobby Barclay, and Harold Pearson, Teddy Sandford and George Shaw of West Bromwich Albion.
 
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