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The 1985–86 season was Manchester United’s 83rd season in the Football League and their 11th consecutive season in the top division of English football.Despite having won the FA Cup the previous season the team was unable to compete in the 1985–86 European Cup Winners’ Cup due to the five-year ban on English clubs competing in European competitions that was imposed following the Heysel Stadium disaster at the 1985 European Cup Final.With no European action to distract them they got off to a 10-match winning start in the league were unbeaten from their first 15 games and remained top of the league until the beginning of February but their dismal post Christmas form dragged them down to a final position of fourth in the league and there was no success in the cup competitions to fall back on leading to doubts about the future of Ron Atkinson as manager.