[1] Born in Highbury Vale, Nottingham, and the younger brother of fellow footballer Georgie Mee, he played for Derby County and Mansfield Town.

[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.

Mee recruited Dave Sexton and Don Howe as his assistants, in order to make up for any tactical shortcomings of his own.

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 United.

[2] Mee then began to break up the team which had won the double, and players such as Kennedy, 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.