Claudius What’s interesting for me is the Invincibles period that people often romanticise as the golden era of attacking football is also the lowest scoring phase of the English game this century.
Yeah, Arteta's Arsenal has had a couple of seasons where more goals were scored than pretty much any Arsenal season since the 1960s.
It's partly got to do with how we consume football, I think. And about how the transition from the Graham era to the Wenger era was naturally interpreted by Arsenal fans.
The conditions all change. Henry played over 50 matches, and was on the pitch nearly every minute of every match in 03–04.
Henry's total minutes that season exceeded Saka's in any given season you care to check. But then it's not as if Henry was busting a gut pressing, nor was he getting double-teamed and hacked down in the same way as Saka does, week after week. Times change.
