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Unseasonably poor weather exacerbated the situation and a meagre 4,554 fans turned up &#8211; the lowest ever attendance for a first team game at Highbury.<\/p>\n<p>The record for most programmes sold at a home game had been set earlier in the season against Manchester United, this game saw the opposite with the fewest programmes sold.<\/p>\n<p>It also proved to be the final nail in the coffin for Billy Wright&#8217;s four year tenure as Arsenal manager, and he was sacked during the summer.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<div class=\"wppdfemb-frame-container-1\" style=\"-webkit-overflow-scrolling:auto;\">\n\t\t\t<iframe class=\"pdfembed-iframe nonfullscreen wppdf-emb-iframe-1\"\n\t\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/thearsenalcollection.org.uk\/?pdfemb-data=eyJ0aXRsZSI6IjE5NjYtMDUtMDUgTGVlZHMgVW5pdGVkIChIKSBGTCIsImluZGV4IjoxLCJwZGZJRCI6Mzg2NCwicGRmZW1iLXNlcnZldXJsIjoiaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZ0aGVhcnNlbmFsY29sbGVjdGlvbi5vcmcudWslMkZ3cC1jb250ZW50JTJGdXBsb2FkcyUyRnNlY3VyZXBkZnMlMkYyMDE3JTJGMDYlMkYxOTY2LTA1LTA1LUxlZWRzLVVuaXRlZC1ILUZMLnBkZiIsIndtX3RleHQiOiIifQ\"\n\t\t\t\ttitle=\"1966-05-05 Leeds United (H) FL\"\t\t\t\tdata-pdf-id=\"3864\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-pdf-index=\"1\"\n\t\t\t\tstyle=\"border:none;width:100%;max-width:600px;height:100vh;\"\n\t\t\t\tscrolling=\"yes\">\n\t\t\t<\/iframe>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the team performing poorly on the pitch and this rearranged game played on the same night that the European&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,4],"tags":[368,110],"class_list":["post-4019","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-1965-66","category-programmes","tag-1965-66","tag-leeds-united"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P87inb-12P","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4007,"url":"https:\/\/thearsenalcollection.org.uk\/?page_id=4007","url_meta":{"origin":4019,"position":0},"title":"Arsenal v Leeds United &#8211; Football League Division One, Saturday April 9th 1966","author":"arsenalcollection","date":"7 July 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"This is one of the rarest Arsenal programmes available. 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