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GooneriC

We were a team of ball playing monsters , how could Wenger move away from the sheer physical power of that team to the bunch of weaklings / midgets we've had in recent times?

Ricky1985

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I can't even remember the last time I saw a goal like that scored.

Big Willie

What a great goal. Unbelievable football.
The ball was moved so fast that I can't even tell who that was against tother than they were wearing black.

jones

World class goal, and yeah I honestly can't recall many goals like that. Our Arsenal of old had plenty for sure

Found this in the comments

😆

Gazza M

Ricky1985 wrote:
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I can't even remember the last time I saw a goal like that scored.

In a game where henry scored 4, that was my pick of the bunch

Ricky1985

Big Willie wrote:
What a great goal. Unbelievable football.
The ball was moved so fast that I can't even tell who that was against tother than they were wearing black.

That is the game we smacked up Leeds United--a year after they (Mark fucking Viduka) ended our League title bid--Thierry with 4 goals to condemn them to relagation. Revenga, you little bitches.

Here's Henry's demolition job:

To this day, I can still here the commentary from Martin Tyler and Andy Gray for Henry's 4th in my head word for word! "Electrifying . . . ELECTRIFYING!" 😆

No other English in the time I've been watching football can touch us. That one-touch stuff: the speed of movement, the speed of thought, the technical quality, it's the best I've seen. It's football as it can be, as it should be. I can't believe how lucky I was to have grown up watching it.

Klaus

jones wrote:
World class goal, and yeah I honestly can't recall many goals like that. Our Arsenal of old had plenty for sure

Found this in the comments

😆

😆 I've heard that anecdote from someone else too. I think it was Ray Parlour who taught him that sentence.

Claudius

Part of having the right tradition is stories. When you hear a story like that of Vieira saying Tottenham are shit, or Fabregas telling a reporter he wanted to throttle the Neville brothers for hurting Reyes, or Lauren saying he’d take another £40,000 fine to push Phil Neville, you grow fonder of the players. Winning helps, but the stories build the legend.

What stories will our current and recent crop have?

Ricky1985

jones wrote:
World class goal, and yeah I honestly can't recall many goals like that. Our Arsenal of old had plenty for sure

Found this in the comments

😆

Brilliant. What I wouldn't give for another midfielder half as good. And half as mean!

Mirth

Ricky1985 wrote:
Here's Henry's demolition job:

To this day, I can still here the commentary from Martin Tyler and Andy Gray for Henry's 4th in my head word for word! "Electrifying . . . ELECTRIFYING!" 😆

No other English in the time I've been watching football can touch us. That one-touch stuff: the speed of movement, the speed of thought, the technical quality, it's the best I've seen. It's football as it can be, as it should be. I can't believe how lucky I was to have grown up watching it.

That fourth goal is incredible.

Klaus

Claudius wrote:
Part of having the right tradition is stories. When you hear a story like that of Vieira saying Tottenham are shit, or Fabregas telling a reporter he wanted to throttle the Neville brothers for hurting Reyes, or Lauren saying he’d take another £40,000 fine to push Phil Neville, you grow fonder of the players. Winning helps, but the stories build the legend.

What stories will our current and recent crop have?

I remember Freddie doing an interview after he was voted Premier League player of the year back in 2002, and they asked him about the first player he'd pick if he got to choose first for a training match. He said he didn't care about the rest of his picks as long as Keown was in his side. When they pressed him on why he didn't go for Henry or Bergkamp he just said that all his teammates were good but there was only one Keown.

I think all the best teams are like that. They all have someone who bleeds in club colours who you'd hate to cross as an opponent but would love to have as a teammate because you can count on them always having your back. Keown was the one who took it upon himself to mentor Henry too. He'd follow him around and kick the living hell out of him in training to teach him how to avoid dirty English tackles, and then he'd be viciously protective of him during the actual games.

Claudius

That 4th goal. Wow.
Even the pass on the 3rd goal.
I know Shevchenko was hot, but how did he beat Henry for that award? Corruption

Klaus

Yeah, Shevchenko wasn't even the best player in his own team. Broad daylight robbery.

Claudius

Klaus wrote:
Yeah, Shevchenko wasn't even the best player in his own team. Broad daylight robbery.

That’s a fair call. But daft Uefa has typically favored goal scorers

Ricky1985

Klaus wrote:
Claudius wrote:
Part of having the right tradition is stories. When you hear a story like that of Vieira saying Tottenham are shit, or Fabregas telling a reporter he wanted to throttle the Neville brothers for hurting Reyes, or Lauren saying he’d take another £40,000 fine to push Phil Neville, you grow fonder of the players. Winning helps, but the stories build the legend.

What stories will our current and recent crop have?

I remember Freddie doing an interview after he was voted Premier League player of the year back in 2002, and they asked him about the first player he'd pick if he got to choose first for a training match. He said he didn't care about the rest of his picks as long as Keown was in his side. When they pressed him on why he didn't go for Henry or Bergkamp he just said that all his teammates were good but there was only one Keown.

I think all the best teams are like that. They all have someone who bleeds in club colours who you'd hate to cross as an opponent but would love to have as a teammate because you can count on them always having your back. Keown was the one who took it upon himself to mentor Henry too. He'd follow him around and kick the living hell out of him in training to teach him how to avoid dirty English tackles, and then he'd be viciously protective of him during the actual games.

It still saddens me greatly that we broke that chain of tradition by losing all those great players and great characters in such a short period of time. It's the biggest mistake Wenger made; although, it was no doubt brought about by the stadium move and would not have happened otherwise; I would imagine there was a not insignificant pressure from the board to cut costs. It was a perfect storm that robbed us of a legacy that should have given us the most incredible environment to shape the next 10 years. Instead we ended up with a load kids that were either no good or didn't have a clue, and it got worse from there.

Ricky1985

A taking apart of the Leverkusen team that vied for the treble that season: runners up in all 3 competitions.

And this performance was with Stepanovs and Grimandi starting and Inamoto coming on as a sub!

Vieira before he slowed down a bit was just not human!

Big Willie

Ricky1985 wrote:
Big Willie wrote:
What a great goal. Unbelievable football.
The ball was moved so fast that I can't even tell who that was against tother than they were wearing black.

That is the game we smacked up Leeds United--a year after they (Mark fucking Viduka) ended our League title bid--Thierry with 4 goals to condemn them to relagation. Revenga, you little bitches.

Here's Henry's demolition job:

To this day, I can still here the commentary from Martin Tyler and Andy Gray for Henry's 4th in my head word for word! "Electrifying . . . ELECTRIFYING!" 😆

No other English in the time I've been watching football can touch us. That one-touch stuff: the speed of movement, the speed of thought, the technical quality, it's the best I've seen. It's football as it can be, as it should be. I can't believe how lucky I was to have grown up watching it.

That was the Leeds game? I remember all of Henry's goals from that game but completely blanked out Leeds were playing in black that day rather than yellow.

MistaT

Claudius wrote:
What stories will our current and recent crop have?

Kolasanic having a go with Ozil's robbers
Ramsey letting Dier know what's what, with Guendouzi right alongside
Theo's 2-0 celebration

That's about all I've got.

Clrnc

Ricky1985 wrote:
Big Willie wrote:
What a great goal. Unbelievable football.
The ball was moved so fast that I can't even tell who that was against tother than they were wearing black.

That is the game we smacked up Leeds United--a year after they (Mark fucking Viduka) ended our League title bid--Thierry with 4 goals to condemn them to relagation. Revenga, you little bitches.

Here's Henry's demolition job:

To this day, I can still here the commentary from Martin Tyler and Andy Gray for Henry's 4th in my head word for word! "Electrifying . . . ELECTRIFYING!" 😆

Tyler and Gray's commentary are the best. Everytime I watch back our matches from the past their commentary just complement our football perfectly. His comments after electrifying is so apt on Henry, never seen anything like this in the past 25 years.

Gilberto is ridiculously underrated as a footballer. He is world class defensively but he can play as well

invisibleman18

Yeah love their commentary for the Henry screamer against Man City I posted in the Henry thread too.

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