This is the season that I first started supporting Arsenal and following football regularly week in, week out as a 7 year old. It's also the season that my favourite footballer of all time Cesc Fabregas had his breakthrough season as a 17 year old. Looking forward to this.
I am amazed as Gooner recalling back this team of Arsenal. Exciting football, amazing talents, fancy Arsenal goals so pleasant to watch again and again. This used to be by far the best attacking football in the PL, fastest ever one touch FB, unbelievable understanding between the team. One obvious mistake has never been addressed for fixing...The lack of balance between attack and defense. My beloved Wenger is all to blame. Otherwise, Arsenal then wasn't a team anyone could beat. It was a Pack of Talents: Bergkamp, Viera, Henry, Pires, Gilbert Silva, Edu. RV Persie, Fabregas, Laurent, Ash Cole. Dream team !
Arsenal were in peak of the golden era that began in mid nineties under Arsene Wenger. It was a fitting farewell for Patrick Vieira as he scored the winning penalty in that memorable final against Man Utd at the Millennium Stadium , Cardiff.
How many times do you see Pires or Ljungberg in the 6 yard box scoring poacher’s goals. The freedom and chaos of Arsenal front 4 was tactical brilliance by Wenger. Individual quality in the final 3rd wins football games and teams with the best attackers win most titles
Arsenal could have retained our PL title in 04/05. What a team that season, such as Reyes, Bergkamp, Pires, Vieira, Cole, van Persie, Fabegas, Ljunberg, and Henry.
United won 4 in that time, not 5. Chelsea won it in 2005. * We threw the league away in the 02/03 season. Dropped 12 points from an available 21 between games 30-36 & ended up losing the league by 5 points to Utd. Had we won it that year, we'd have had a Double-Double League & Cup winning side, as well as having won 3 Prems in a row to go with that unbeaten season of 03/04. * We also ended up losing the 98/99 Prem by one point after we lost late on away to Leeds in the second last game of the season. United drew away to Blackburn the following evening which left them one point ahead of us going into the last game. Even the GD was level going into the final two games & we were only separated by virtue of goals scored. Who knows how even by holding out for a draw could have possibly altered the outcome of that run in going into the last day? * You can also throw the '99 Cup Semi-Final replay into the mix. Utd went down to 10 men after Keane had been sent off earlier in the game & Bergkamp has his penalty saved in the last minute of normal time. Went on to lose in E.T after Viera misplaced a pass in the middle of the park before Giggs weaved his way through 3 or 4 of our backline (someone should have fouled him before he got into our box) & scored. Fine margins.
@@oisin5684 Yeah bro we bottled the league in 02/03.. We choked a 2-0 lead against Bolton and drew 2-2 then lost to relegation threatened Leeds 3-2 at Highbury
@muhammadhameedahmed6619 Yep, even if we'd held out for a 2-1 win v Bolton, it would have put us ahead of Utd on Goals Scored. That result was the first time during the run-in where the title was taken out of our hands. Unforgiveable for a side with that much quality & experience of winning silverware. When you take into account that the two sides were so evenly matched from that 1998-2004 period whereby even the Goal Difference was so tight, when as I've already said, they were only separated by Goals Scored going into the last 2 games of the 98/99 season before we also on that occasion blew an opportunity to retain the title by losing late on to Leeds which afforded Utd the luxury of being able to drop points by drawing to Blackburn to give them a single point advantage going into the final weekend, the rivalry could very easily have ended with a 5-2 League titles majority in favour of Arsenal instead of the 4-3 that we shared in that time in favour of them. As I said, fine margins.
@muhammadhameedahmed6619 I know & I'm Irish as well to make it even more sour 🫣. David O'Leary is responsible for the most iconic moment in Irish football history when he scored the winning spot kick in a penalty shoot out v Romania to send Ireland through to the Quarter-Finals of the World Cup in 1990 😢. Mad to think that we only conceded 17 goals in the league that season & still didn't manage to win it.
I still recall the happy memories of winning the penalty shoot out against Man Utd in the final at Millennium Stadium, Cardiff. I was watching live at our doctors room in Gynae ward during my internship in Mymensingh Medical College Hospital, Bangladesh.
Looking back I feel this season was what set Arsenal up to fall in the following years. Wenger became too complacent and almost arrogant , he didn’t sign any experienced players so the players weren’t pushed and he should of signed a defender and a proper keeper to strengthen the defence
Not sure I would agree with you on replacing Lehmann at this stage/time, but interesting regarding a defender... who would you hypothetically have in mind to sign at the time?
Wenger and the board had an excuse and extenuating circumstance that Arsenal had to spend a lot of money on the new stadium. And you can indeed blame the board a lot for the fact that their transfer policy was not good, but since Wenger certainly had some power vis-à-vis the board, I also blame him for the club's decline after 2005. It took the input of one Mesut Ozil to bring in the necessary silverware after a 10-year trophy drought, we had completely lost touch with the top that way.. But I will never forget Wenger's contribution to the club, especially in the crazy period between 97 and 2005, the football was simply insanely good.
That United team battered Arsenal at highbury iconic game. Quality in the final 3rd wins you football games ergo Giggs’ strike. What in the heck was that
This is the season that I first started supporting Arsenal and following football regularly week in, week out as a 7 year old. It's also the season that my favourite footballer of all time Cesc Fabregas had his breakthrough season as a 17 year old. Looking forward to this.
I am amazed as Gooner recalling back this team of Arsenal. Exciting football, amazing talents, fancy Arsenal goals so pleasant to watch again and again. This used to be by far the best attacking football in the PL, fastest ever one touch FB, unbelievable understanding between the team. One obvious mistake has never been addressed for fixing...The lack of balance between attack and defense. My beloved Wenger is all to blame. Otherwise, Arsenal then wasn't a team anyone could beat. It was a Pack of Talents: Bergkamp, Viera, Henry, Pires, Gilbert Silva, Edu. RV Persie, Fabregas, Laurent, Ash Cole. Dream team !
Arsenal were in peak of the golden era that began in mid nineties under Arsene Wenger. It was a fitting farewell for Patrick Vieira as he scored the winning penalty in that memorable final against Man Utd at the Millennium Stadium , Cardiff.
the Highbury scream 😂
Henry was a pure agent of chaos. The layoffs the angles the runs not to mention the goals
How many times do you see Pires or Ljungberg in the 6 yard box scoring poacher’s goals. The freedom and chaos of Arsenal front 4 was tactical brilliance by Wenger.
Individual quality in the final 3rd wins football games and teams with the best attackers win most titles
That Bergkamp pass for that first goal against Blackburn was unbelievable
Arsenal could have retained our PL title in 04/05.
What a team that season, such as Reyes, Bergkamp, Pires, Vieira, Cole, van Persie, Fabegas, Ljunberg, and Henry.
I too this was the year I fall in love with the team and especially Henry
Iconic escadinha 15:51 & Vieira sniffed it from a mile what a player
It's so disappointing between 98 and 2005 we won only 3 titles while United won 5 cause our team was much better imo
United won 4 in that time, not 5. Chelsea won it in 2005.
* We threw the league away in the 02/03 season. Dropped 12 points from an available 21 between games 30-36 & ended up losing the league by 5 points to Utd. Had we won it that year, we'd have had a Double-Double League & Cup winning side, as well as having won 3 Prems in a row to go with that unbeaten season of 03/04.
* We also ended up losing the 98/99 Prem by one point after we lost late on away to Leeds in the second last game of the season. United drew away to Blackburn the following evening which left them one point ahead of us going into the last game. Even the GD was level going into the final two games & we were only separated by virtue of goals scored. Who knows how even by holding out for a draw could have possibly altered the outcome of that run in going into the last day?
* You can also throw the '99 Cup Semi-Final replay into the mix. Utd went down to 10 men after Keane had been sent off earlier in the game & Bergkamp has his penalty saved in the last minute of normal time. Went on to lose in E.T after Viera misplaced a pass in the middle of the park before Giggs weaved his way through 3 or 4 of our backline (someone should have fouled him before he got into our box) & scored.
Fine margins.
@@oisin5684 Yeah bro we bottled the league in 02/03.. We choked a 2-0 lead against Bolton and drew 2-2 then lost to relegation threatened Leeds 3-2 at Highbury
@muhammadhameedahmed6619
Yep, even if we'd held out for a 2-1 win v Bolton, it would have put us ahead of Utd on Goals Scored. That result was the first time during the run-in where the title was taken out of our hands. Unforgiveable for a side with that much quality & experience of winning silverware.
When you take into account that the two sides were so evenly matched from that 1998-2004 period whereby even the Goal Difference was so tight, when as I've already said, they were only separated by Goals Scored going into the last 2 games of the 98/99 season before we also on that occasion blew an opportunity to retain the title by losing late on to Leeds which afforded Utd the luxury of being able to drop points by drawing to Blackburn to give them a single point advantage going into the final weekend, the rivalry could very easily have ended with a 5-2 League titles majority in favour of Arsenal instead of the 4-3 that we shared in that time in favour of them. As I said, fine margins.
@@oisin5684 And to makes manners worse the manager of Leeds was David O'Leary loooool
@muhammadhameedahmed6619 I know & I'm Irish as well to make it even more sour 🫣. David O'Leary is responsible for the most iconic moment in Irish football history when he scored the winning spot kick in a penalty shoot out v Romania to send Ireland through to the Quarter-Finals of the World Cup in 1990 😢. Mad to think that we only conceded 17 goals in the league that season & still didn't manage to win it.
Our boys
Wenger really had his flaws. After that loss at old trafford, we went on a rough patch. Home draws with Southampton and west brom smh
I still recall the happy memories of winning the penalty shoot out against Man Utd in the final at Millennium Stadium, Cardiff. I was watching live at our doctors room in Gynae ward during my internship in Mymensingh Medical College Hospital, Bangladesh.
Looking back I feel this season was what set Arsenal up to fall in the following years. Wenger became too complacent and almost arrogant , he didn’t sign any experienced players so the players weren’t pushed and he should of signed a defender and a proper keeper to strengthen the defence
100% agreed with you
Not sure I would agree with you on replacing Lehmann at this stage/time, but interesting regarding a defender... who would you hypothetically have in mind to sign at the time?
Wenger and the board had an excuse and extenuating circumstance that Arsenal had to spend a lot of money on the new stadium. And you can indeed blame the board a lot for the fact that their transfer policy was not good, but since Wenger certainly had some power vis-à-vis the board, I also blame him for the club's decline after 2005. It took the input of one Mesut Ozil to bring in the necessary silverware after a 10-year trophy drought, we had completely lost touch with the top that way.. But I will never forget Wenger's contribution to the club, especially in the crazy period between 97 and 2005, the football was simply insanely good.
@@govaert7 I don't think it was an excuse, I think it was the truth. It was an incredibly frustrating time that I agree with
Do Liverpool 05/06 season, mate. Happy New Year!
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I am an Arsenal fan since 97 when I watched the magician Bergkamp, tricky Overmars and others under professor Arsene.
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Henry rarely headed the ball probably saved himself from CTE
That United team battered Arsenal at highbury iconic game.
Quality in the final 3rd wins you football games ergo Giggs’ strike. What in the heck was that
Please where did arsenal sign alumunia he is very poor this team is suppose to win champions League but Wenger is too stingy to sign top players
We were building the Emirates. Nothing to do with Wenger deciding to be stingy all of a sudden.
Please release 2009/10 season review
Please release 2009/10 season review