It's no wonder we've judged every midfield we've had since the big man left as inadequate.
In fact: Cole, Campbell, Vieira, Pires, Bergkamp and Henry.
It's not an inferiority complex toward Man City or Liverpool us Arsenal fans have. It's that we saw the best of the best, and in the same team too, where do you go from there?
We will put together another very good team at some point in the not too distant future, but none of the players in it will touch those players.