Clrnc wrote:

We really play some brilliant football those days without winning things. Arshavin Rosicky Fabregas strutting stuffs behind RVP is brilliant. 

I came here to post the Bolton 2-3 game but it was posted, watched all of them instead.
This was such a great game, as a teenager I used to love Fabregas so much. Is it strange that I remember everything I did in the day of certain games? Like this one, 6-2. I remember where I was, how I reacted, how my day was. But I can't remember anything from the day before.

Lol. This Arsenal - Chelsea final was such a good game. Thank goodness for the lockdown. Don’t have to watch the dregs of Arsenal. This version of Bellerin could power up and down the flanks. I hope he gets there by next season.

AOC was the weakest player on that cup final side. Don’t miss the bloke. Ramsey, Ozil, Sanchez, Bellerin, Mert and Holding all did well.

Mertesacker had a massive game. First game all season if I recall correctly, he was coming down in age and fitness for about two years before already and then pulled that out of nowhere to end his career with a trophy. Dearly missed, probably the best captain we've had since Vieira in terms of personality.

Haha "I can't score 90, sorry."

Don't think I will ever feel that adrenaline from any other transfers again compared to Llama

jones wrote:

Mertesacker had a massive game. First game all season if I recall correctly, he was coming down in age and fitness for about two years before already and then pulled that out of nowhere to end his career with a trophy. Dearly missed, probably the best captain we've had since Vieira in terms of personality.

We were all shitting ourselves before the game began. We had assumed he was finished.

Now they’re playing Hull - Arsenal final. I’ll have to work later this evening. This Hull team was really filled with nobodies.

Was the most Arsenal thing ever when we had the chance to win our first trophy in God knows how long and then we're 2-0 down to a horrible team before a quarter of an hour was played.

Sanogo played 45 minutes of that final as well. We gave Hull every advantage

The forgotten Arsenal-Liverpool match, at the start of 2000/2001. 3 red cards and Lauren was a central midfielder for us (and scored).

Would love to find the full game.

The forgotten match of our UCL run. People often talk about the win at Bernabeu but this was equally amazing. Dominant win against Juve in their prime. Just look at a young Cesc romping everywhere. The intelligence of our players in the goals were lovely, brilliant reverse ball by Henry and a needle throughball by Hleb

Buffon, Del Piero, Cannavaro, Nedved, Vieira, Ibrahimovic, Zambrotta, Thuram, Trezeguet... Immense star power in a side that went on to be gutted by the match fixing scandal, but what a side it was.

Whatever else in his life, Eboue will always have Nedved and Zidane in his pocket

Eboue was unbelievable that season. Was convinced he was the new Cafu

Claudius wrote:

Whatever else in his life, Eboue will always have Nedved and Zidane in his pocket

Messi too tbf in that 2011 game.

If there's a "forgotten game" in that run it's the Villarreal one. Although it wasn't much to remember either.

Jens' last minute penalty save was definitely a thing to remember.

True, although ironically I didn't.

jones wrote:

Mertesacker had a massive game. First game all season if I recall correctly, he was coming down in age and fitness for about two years before already and then pulled that out of nowhere to end his career with a trophy. Dearly missed, probably the best captain we've had since Vieira in terms of personality.

Even now when you watch it and think back it is still unbelievable. 

If he is playing for a deeper defence he will be twice the player he is. 

Middlesborough have just been dominated over the years.
7-0, 6-1, 5-3
woof

Takes all 3 mins for Viera's brilliance to come shining through

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.

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

Ricky1985 wrote:

[Twitter]

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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