I'm from London, England, I've supported Arsenal since I was 6 (I'm 37 now) & live about 20 minutes away from where The Emirates & Highbury stadiums are located. This video was a nice trip down memory lane I can't lie, got to experience some great moments supporting my club. The Champions League final.....that game still hurts to this day. We were no more than 15 minutes away from winning when Barcelona equalised.....we were so close.
The best football channel, period! He's the definition of quality over quantity. But Tifo, Raymar, Daily Dose of Football and Maqwell (and Copa90 when they uploaded) are very good too!
That was a great reaction idea. Whoever recommended this video has my respect. I would also recommend checking oh my goals "football will never produce another captain like puyol"
4:44 The European Cup was the Champions League, but what Arsenal won was the European Cup Winners' Cup, which was a tournament between the winners of the FA Cup, the Copa del Ray, Coppa Italia and all the cups across Europe. It was worth winning at the time, but once the Champions League expanded to include 2nd, 3rd and 4th place teams most of the best cup winning teams qualified for that instead and CWC lost its lustre. It was discontinued around 2002 or so I'm pretty sure.
Damn. Watching this again brought tears to my eyes. I cried when we lost number 50, cried when barca beat us. Cried when we left highbury and this video made me well up.
Ryan Giggs is actually a legend, of Man Utd and the Premier League. One of the greatest players in English club football history. Man Utd's record appearance holder too.
My club, it's still painful to see the champions league loss and i remember the uefa cup final against galatasaray i was a kid and i was so sad at that time. a lot of time to support a club is to suffer lol. Love my club.
Nice stuff, great vid. The Uefa cup is the Europa league, and the cup winners cup doesn't exist any more, but it didn't really matter anyway, You were right about the European Cup being the champions league. And Henry didn't really pull a KD, the club had started going into decline and he stayed another year after the final because he was desperate to win it with Arsenal (everyone had been expecting him to leave that summer), their fans were always grateful to him for staying as long as he did. Maybe look at the Alex Ferguson years next, easily the most dominant storyline of the premier league so far
Tbf the European cup winners cup was closer to the being the Europa leage in terms of prestige, being the second tier European competition at the time. After a while they consolidated it into the Uefa cup which would later become the europa. Before then no one really cared about the Uefa Cup.
I'm an Arsenal fan who has only ever gotten to see the invincibles and the champions league final through footage (I was born in 2004). Despite that, Henry is my favourite player of all-time and Wenger is my favourite manager. It's crazy to think Wenger started managing Arsenal years before I was even born, and left the club when I was already in High School. A true legend.
Man United vs Arsenal rivalry from late 90s to early 00s is the greatest in all team sports. The energy in those matches was INSANE. From the two managers, to the players (Keane and Vieira especially).
The UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was a European football club competition contested annually by the winners of domestic cup competitions. So there were 2 European competitions: the champions league & the cup winners' cup. However, the cup winners' cup was discontinued after the 98-99 season.
Great reaction man, and we can see that you have been learning, and you are still learning more :) I would recommand another story, a bit less famous, about a great striker, just before CR7 era : "The Story Of The Second Division Striker Who Became Portugal's Greatest Goalscorer"
Basically before the champions and europa league, there were: - europa cup 1 (roughly the champions league) - europa cup 2, or cup winners cup (a championship for the cup winners in europe: english FA cup, spanish Cope Der Rey, italian Coppa Italia etc.) - europa cup 3 (roughly the europa league)
RIP Reyes. They talk about benfica is this video and you should definitely do a reaction to benfica curse. My team is one of the most cursed clubs ever. FYI, Europe cup = champions league Uefa cup= Europa League Cup Winners Cup kind of Conference League
The Cup Winners Cup was the 2nd biggest European tournament before the Champions League became what it is now, so by the 90's it wasn't as prestigious as it had been but still really valuable. Teams like Juventus, Barca, Spurs, Chelsea, Man United, AC Milan, etc all won it.
Thierry actually joined Barcelona a year after they loss. It wasn't the same Barca anymore since the team was in turmoil. Also check the channel out more. I've been a subscriber of balon for a while now and all of their vids are 11/10. You will learn alot more about the history and a deeper background of eras in football.
UEFA Cup was Europa League. I believe they created Europa League in 2011. UEFA Cup was probably better (competition wise) than European Cup in the 90s.
It was the European Cup(UEFA Cup) before the CL. The cup winner’s cup was every team that won the domestic cup in the top leagues of Europe. Would be pretty cool to bring back honestly, it was huge in it’s day
Wright joining west ham was a good move... West ham had the likes of Frank Lampard, Rio Ferdinand, Paulo Di canio (check him out btw) Trevor Sinclair, Micheal Carrick, Joe cole, Paul Kitson, and a few others. Most of them ended up being Premier league legends or very good players! Wright did okay for us 9 goals in 22 games but got injured and he was old so never came back. but yeah man check out Paulo Di Canio best goals and skills he is a demon , he got suspended from the league for pushing a ref and west ham only team that wanted to take him hahah and he was world class
Get your docs from Balon, their content is incredible. so much nostalgia as they've documented a lot of of stuff from the 90's and early 2000's some of my earliest football memories. just answer your question, the Cup Winners Cup was a knock out competition for teams that won the cup competitions, existed till 1999, when UEFA merged the cup winners cup with the UEFA Cup (now europa league) to create a champions league style format.
we got robbed of the champions league win, they sent our goal keeper off, that means we actually lost 2 players because we then had to sub one of our players off to bring a new goalkeeper on
To be fair to Henry, everyone already knew he was going to Barça, even the video says it then they JUST HAPPEN to play against Barça in the Final so by technicality KD is still the only KD 🤣😂🤣
not true, I remember most of us thought if we win the champions league final he would stay cuz even he said later on that he went to barca to win the champions league
It’s. It basketball. The game count wasn’t the number of games won. It was the number of games played. Areanonal had played three games less. We call this having three games in hand. If they won them all they would be level on points with Man U. Even if they drew with Man U they would then have the same number of points. So it wasn’t a must win game. But winning helped :).
Football had cycles , team go up and down . Even the greatest clubs like Real and Bayern have their bad years. They key is to remain average and then go into hibernation then rise/ wake up after a few years ( 4 plus years usually)
I'm from London, England, I've supported Arsenal since I was 6 (I'm 37 now) & live about 20 minutes away from where The Emirates & Highbury stadiums are located. This video was a nice trip down memory lane I can't lie, got to experience some great moments supporting my club. The Champions League final.....that game still hurts to this day. We were no more than 15 minutes away from winning when Barcelona equalised.....we were so close.
Cant believe I found a Arsenal fans from London😮
@@El_Compa_Zamy 🤣
Lehnman kinda stop yall to won that final. He absolutely ruinin it doing that stoopid foul on Eto'o
@@El_Compa_Zamy You sound surprised, there's loads of us around here 😂
@@El_Compa_Zamy There's quite a lot of us I think you'll find. Utd fans from Manchester on the other hand...
9:30
I actually believed the club was named after Arsène when i was younger
Anyone else?💀
Balon is the best football story telling channel out there
Facts💯
The best football channel, period! He's the definition of quality over quantity.
But Tifo, Raymar, Daily Dose of Football and Maqwell (and Copa90 when they uploaded) are very good too!
Facts.... Best narrating
@@Metalton95 and football iconic
"Dude got the Nottingham Forest on his chest" 😹😹😹😹
That CL final still breaks my heart
and they TOOK your best player after too LOL 😂
@@user-name3366 and he won it with us too! Well great career for him World Cup Prem UCL
The Lehmann red card was a disgrace, Barcelona literally scored after that, goal should’ve stood
@@leonard13039 but he was the last man and it wasn’t a penalty! Imagine stopping a guaranteed goal with a foul and not getting punished for it!
@@JohanCruyff-the-Dutch-GOAT he just wants to have this narrative against barcelona. He hates on so many other channel on messi and Barcelona
That was a great reaction idea. Whoever recommended this video has my respect. I would also recommend checking oh my goals "football will never produce another captain like puyol"
20:49 u can’t tell me bronco isn’t Henry’s secret son
When I was young, I genuinely thought that Arsenal was named after Arsene Wenger
Same lol
4:44 The European Cup was the Champions League, but what Arsenal won was the European Cup Winners' Cup, which was a tournament between the winners of the FA Cup, the Copa del Ray, Coppa Italia and all the cups across Europe. It was worth winning at the time, but once the Champions League expanded to include 2nd, 3rd and 4th place teams most of the best cup winning teams qualified for that instead and CWC lost its lustre. It was discontinued around 2002 or so I'm pretty sure.
Finally someone gave Balon his flowers, love his content
The first invincibles were Preston North End in the 1888-1889 season
"crystal palace, of course he black" this is when I knew bronco understood football
Damn. Watching this again brought tears to my eyes. I cried when we lost number 50, cried when barca beat us. Cried when we left highbury and this video made me well up.
Ryan Giggs is actually a legend, of Man Utd and the Premier League. One of the greatest players in English club football history. Man Utd's record appearance holder too.
Shame he's an awful person
2:49 Bronco I was holding it together till you started laughing man😂
My club, it's still painful to see the champions league loss and i remember the uefa cup final against galatasaray i was a kid and i was so sad at that time.
a lot of time to support a club is to suffer lol. Love my club.
Nice stuff, great vid. The Uefa cup is the Europa league, and the cup winners cup doesn't exist any more, but it didn't really matter anyway, You were right about the European Cup being the champions league. And Henry didn't really pull a KD, the club had started going into decline and he stayed another year after the final because he was desperate to win it with Arsenal (everyone had been expecting him to leave that summer), their fans were always grateful to him for staying as long as he did.
Maybe look at the Alex Ferguson years next, easily the most dominant storyline of the premier league so far
Tbf the European cup winners cup was closer to the being the Europa leage in terms of prestige, being the second tier European competition at the time. After a while they consolidated it into the Uefa cup which would later become the europa. Before then no one really cared about the Uefa Cup.
Da Bronco finally reacting to a Balon video. I've been waiting for this for months.
I remember growing up thinking Arsenal was named after Arsene Wenger😅😅
React to more videos of this UA-cam creator, Balon. They are goated
I'm an Arsenal fan who has only ever gotten to see the invincibles and the champions league final through footage (I was born in 2004). Despite that, Henry is my favourite player of all-time and Wenger is my favourite manager. It's crazy to think Wenger started managing Arsenal years before I was even born, and left the club when I was already in High School. A true legend.
7:43 The Flying Dutchman is Van Persie
Bergkamp was The Non Flying Dutchman....
im a huge arsenal fan and ive been waiting for this from you coyg!
Man United vs Arsenal rivalry from late 90s to early 00s is the greatest in all team sports. The energy in those matches was INSANE. From the two managers, to the players (Keane and Vieira especially).
The UEFA Cup Winners' Cup was a European football club competition contested annually by the winners of domestic cup competitions. So there were 2 European competitions: the champions league & the cup winners' cup. However, the cup winners' cup was discontinued after the 98-99 season.
you should react to more balon videos, by far the best story teller and editor on UA-cam, crazy to think that balon is a one man team lol
goddamn this is a whole movie reaction
The guy you're saying Henry owned is his country goalkeeper 😂😂
Damn 50 mins
Love to see it
LOVE THIS CLUB! ALWAYS FIGHTING THE ODDS!
Great reaction man, and we can see that you have been learning, and you are still learning more :)
I would recommand another story, a bit less famous, about a great striker, just before CR7 era : "The Story Of The Second Division Striker Who Became Portugal's Greatest Goalscorer"
Love your dedication Bronco bro. With the green screen💗
Wayne Rooney was Arsenal's worst nightmare 🤣🤣 he is the player with the most goals against arsenal
I remember as a kid I thought arsenal was named after arsenal wenger
Basically before the champions and europa league, there were:
- europa cup 1 (roughly the champions league)
- europa cup 2, or cup winners cup (a championship for the cup winners in europe: english FA cup, spanish Cope Der Rey, italian Coppa Italia etc.)
- europa cup 3 (roughly the europa league)
balon and football iconic are goated football documentary creators, watch more videos from them, they're always top tier
Arsene Wenger Revolutionisd English Football because of players diets and also the nice way they played.
Great video Bronco🔥🔥🔥
cup winners cup was a comp that pitted the domestic cup winners in europe
eg coupe d france winners v copa italia v fa cup winners
RIP Reyes. They talk about benfica is this video and you should definitely do a reaction to benfica curse. My team is one of the most cursed clubs ever.
FYI, Europe cup = champions league
Uefa cup= Europa League
Cup Winners Cup kind of Conference League
The interesting part is when Manchester united stops arsenal unbeaten winning streak, that's was Rooney's birthday. OCTOBER 24
Thank you for reacting to my video suggestion bronco you should react to more balon
FINALLY YOU REACTED. I LOVE ARSENAL
50 minutes bronco ⁉️⁉️ 2022 is saved
The Cup Winners Cup was the 2nd biggest European tournament before the Champions League became what it is now, so by the 90's it wasn't as prestigious as it had been but still really valuable. Teams like Juventus, Barca, Spurs, Chelsea, Man United, AC Milan, etc all won it.
Since you're interested in Balón's channel, you should check out the Real Madrid video about the successes and failures of their Galacticos era
Thierry actually joined Barcelona a year after they loss. It wasn't the same Barca anymore since the team was in turmoil. Also check the channel out more. I've been a subscriber of balon for a while now and all of their vids are 11/10. You will learn alot more about the history and a deeper background of eras in football.
love this , great reaction video.
Man you should really see some highlights videos of this team! They were absolutely insane and this video don’t do them justice
The Champion's League was formerly The European Cup. The Europa League is a tournament which replaced the former Uefa & Cup Winner's Cups.
UEFA Cup was Europa League. I believe they created Europa League in 2011. UEFA Cup was probably better (competition wise) than European Cup in the 90s.
It was the European Cup(UEFA Cup) before the CL. The cup winner’s cup was every team that won the domestic cup in the top leagues of Europe. Would be pretty cool to bring back honestly, it was huge in it’s day
do more documentaries like this. nice reaction
This makes you root for the underdogs! We will get that!
First Bronco Movie
You found the holy grail, Ballon has the best football channel by a MILE on youtube
Wright joining west ham was a good move... West ham had the likes of Frank Lampard, Rio Ferdinand, Paulo Di canio (check him out btw) Trevor Sinclair, Micheal Carrick, Joe cole, Paul Kitson, and a few others. Most of them ended up being Premier league legends or very good players! Wright did okay for us 9 goals in 22 games but got injured and he was old so never came back. but yeah man check out Paulo Di Canio best goals and skills he is a demon , he got suspended from the league for pushing a ref and west ham only team that wanted to take him hahah and he was world class
28:02 how time flies now leverkusen are invincibles lmao
Roy keane and Vieira was the greatest rivalry i never seen
Get your docs from Balon, their content is incredible. so much nostalgia as they've documented a lot of of stuff from the 90's and early 2000's some of my earliest football memories. just answer your question, the Cup Winners Cup was a knock out competition for teams that won the cup competitions, existed till 1999, when UEFA merged the cup winners cup with the UEFA Cup (now europa league) to create a champions league style format.
3:30 Eriksson, "The Prophet" Isaías and Benfica winning 1-3 at Highbury. Legendary stuff.
best days of my life coyg
3:00 wait till he hears about Tony woodcock
W branco i didn't except this.
Danish players not Norwegian for the George Graham bungs one was John Jensen can't remember the other guys name.
Ya gotta react to balon more fr 👊
Forest logo on the chest is crazy
You finally found the best youtube football documentary channel there, you should react to all of this videos
Cup winners cup was like a europa league back then.. And the actual europa league that existed was more like conference league that exist today
Bronco you should watch a series called the English game on Netflix. It’s a mini series that beautifully captures the history of football.
somebody tell this man that united downfall started in 2013
we got robbed of the champions league win, they sent our goal keeper off, that means we actually lost 2 players because we then had to sub one of our players off to bring a new goalkeeper on
47:26 thats a red because he did a handball outside the box
The cup winners cup was valuable back then if you won it you got to play for the super cup
Gotta Do Copa90's Derby Days Especially The Superclasico. That Episode Is GOATed
The flying Dutch is Van Persie not Berkcamp
Ian Wright deserves way more credit
"Dude with Nottinham Forest Logo on his chest"
Bruh even he didn't violate himself like that if you know what I mean
To be fair to Henry, everyone already knew he was going to Barça, even the video says it then they JUST HAPPEN to play against Barça in the Final so by technicality KD is still the only KD 🤣😂🤣
not true, I remember most of us thought if we win the champions league final he would stay cuz even he said later on that he went to barca to win the champions league
You should react to the Figo documentary on Netflix about his transfer from Barcelona to real Madrid
It’s. It basketball. The game count wasn’t the number of games won. It was the number of games played. Areanonal had played three games less. We call this having three games in hand. If they won them all they would be level on points with Man U. Even if they drew with Man U they would then have the same number of points. So it wasn’t a must win game. But winning helped :).
Yo bronco you need to react to more of balón especially that Nottingham forest video💯
Football had cycles , team go up and down . Even the greatest clubs like Real and Bayern have their bad years. They key is to remain average and then go into hibernation then rise/ wake up after a few years ( 4 plus years usually)
ARSENAL BABY
20:48 you look like Thierry Henry😂
European Cup-UCL
Uefa Cup-UEL
Cup winners cup-UECL
9:30 9:42 legendary comparison of DaBronco 😂😂😂
Unfair cup is basically the old version of the European league
After this you should check out BMOnus, a fellow american that did a video about the history of United my dude
The champions league was called the European cup. The cup wonders cup was something else.. a bit like the europa league.
React to Juventus The Fall and Rise by the same channel
Now imagine being an Arsenal fan who started supporting them in 06. I've only known disappointment.
Reach to the glory days of Manchester United
Henry missed so many sitters he would score with his eyes closed in the champions league final against Barcelona we was 1-0 up 10 men 1st half 😥
I’m a United fan so maybe I just hate Barca for violating us but I wish Arsenal won that final. I feel like Henry deserved a CL at Arsenal.
Bx gooner here.. fan since 1998, ive witnessed the glory days in its fullest
Bx?
Great Side
Thierry you pulled a kevin durant 🤣🤣🤣
Man called him Wegner 💀😭
You should react to Samuel Eto from daily dose of football