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Bertram Mee OBE (25 December 1918 – 22 October 2001) was an English footballer who played as a winger for Derby County and Mansfield Town. Mee was also a manager, noted for leading Arsenal to their first Double win in 1971.[1]

Bertie Mee
OBE

Personal information
Full name	Bertram Mee
Date of birth	(1918-12-25)25 December 1918
Place of birth	Highbury Vale, Nottingham, England
Date of death	22 October 2001(2001-10-22) (aged 82)
Place of death	Barnet, England
Position(s)	Winger
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1938–1939	Derby County	0	(0)
1939	Mansfield Town	13	(0)
Teams managed
1966–1976	Arsenal
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Playing career

Born in Highbury Vale, Nottingham, Mee played for Derby County and Mansfield Town. In 1940–41, Mee made 16 guest appearances for Southampton, scoring twice.[1]

After his playing career was cut short by injury, Mee joined the Royal Army Medical Corps where he trained as a physiotherapist and spent six years, rising to the rank of sergeant. After leaving, he worked for various football clubs as a physiotherapist before joining Arsenal in 1960, succeeding Billy Milne.[2]

Managerial career

Arsenal

After the sacking of Billy Wright in 1966, the club asked Mee to become manager, a highly surprising move, perhaps even to the man himself; Mee asked for a get-out clause for him to return to physiotherapist after twelve months if it didn't work out. Mee recruited Dave Sexton and Don Howe as his assistants, in order to make up for any tactical shortcomings of his own.[3]

Arsenal hadn't won a trophy since 1953, but, under Mee, with a crop of players from Arsenal's youth system, such as Charlie George, John Radford, Pat Rice and Ray Kennedy, began to show promise. Arsenal reached two successive League Cup finals in 1968 and 1969, but lost them both to Leeds United and Swindon Town respectively. However, the following season, the club won its first European trophy and its first trophy of any kind for 17 years, beating Anderlecht to claim the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, 4–3 on aggregate. After being 3-0 down in the away leg, Arsenal grabbed a late consolation and then beat the Belgian side 3–0 at Highbury.[3]

The Fairs Cup was only the warm-up for the main act, namely the FA Cup and League Double win in 1971. The League title was won at White Hart Lane, home of their deadly rivals Tottenham Hotspur, on Monday 3 May, the last day of the season; five days later Arsenal beat Liverpool 2–1 at Wembley after extra-time, the winning goal scored by Charlie George. It was only the second time a club had won a Double in the twentieth century.[3]

Arsenal had ambitions to retain their title the following season and signed Alan Ball from Everton. However their league campaign faltered and their hopes of a trophy depended on the FA Cup, where Arsenal had again reached the final, this time facing Leeds. Arsenal lost by a single goal. In the 1972–73 season Arsenal managed a serious championship challenge, at one point topping the table, but eventually finished runners-up. A run in the FA Cup was brought to an end by a semi final defeat to eventual winners Sunderland.[2]

Mee then began to break up the team which had won the double, and players such as Ray Kennedy, Charlie George and captain Frank McLintock departed. Mee announced his resignation in 1976 as Arsenal's most successful manager in terms of victories with 241 wins, a number that would not be surpassed until 2006 by Arsène Wenger. Mee was succeeded by Terry Neill.

Post-Arsenal

He would later join Watford as assistant to Graham Taylor in 1978 in charge of scouting, and later became a director of the Hornets before retiring in 1991.

Mee was made an OBE in 1984 for services to football.[4] He was the younger brother of fellow footballer Georgie Mee. He died in London at the age of 82, in 2001.[5]

In 2008 Mee was inducted into the National Football Museum's Hall of Fame.[6]

Honours

Managerial

Arsenal

• Football League First Division: 1970–71 runner up: 1972–73[2]
• FA Cup: 1970–71 runner up: 1971–72[2]
• Inter-Cities Fairs Cup: 1969–70[2]
• Football League Cup runner up: 1967–68, 1968–69[2]

Individual

• Manager of the Year - 1971[6][7]
• Order of the British Empire - 1984[2]
• National Football Museum: English Football Hall of Fame - 2008[6]

See also

• List of English football championship winning managers

References

На других языках

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[de] Bertie Mee

Bertram „Bertie“ Mee (* 25. Dezember 1918 in Bulwell, Nottinghamshire; † 22. Oktober 2001 in London) war ein Fußballspieler und -trainer. Dabei war sein größter Erfolg im Jahre 1971 der Gewinn des ersten Doubles in der Geschichte des FC Arsenal.

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- [en] Bertie Mee

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[fr] Bertie Mee

Bertie Mee, né le 25 décembre 1918 à Bullwell, près de Nottingham, et mort le 22 octobre 2001, est un footballeur et un entraîneur britannique.

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[it] Bertie Mee

Bertram Mee, detto Bertie (Bulwell, 25 dicembre 1918 – Londra, 22 ottobre 2001), è stato un calciatore e allenatore di calcio inglese, noto per aver allenato l'Arsenal che vinse il double nel 1971. È il fratello minore del calciatore Georgie Mee[1].

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[ru] Ми, Берти

Берти Ми (англ. Bertie Mee) — английский футболист, физиотерапевт и футбольный тренер, наиболее известный по работе с лондонским «Арсеналом», который он в 1971 году привёл к победе в чемпионате и Кубке Англии.

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