In 1946 the Football League in the United Kingdom fully resumed on a national basis following the disruption caused by World War II. In the club’s first post-war First Division match on 31 August 1946; Arsenal lost 6–1 to Wolves their biggest League defeat in nearly twenty years. Although the Gunners had been the dominant force in English football in the 1930s they struggled in their first season after the war only finishing 13th.
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