We ended Arsenal's unbeaten run with a 2-0 win, Arsene Wenger was being bitter about it earlier in his press conference.
Chelsea remain unbeaten in all competitions so far this season. If Fergie was still in charge I'd say that makes it a guaranteed Man Utd victory this weekend since you always seemed to be the ones to break these kind of records under his guidance.
It looked good to me from my seat at the other end of the ground. Probably a 9. Nice knee slide for his goal too.
I remember it well. Was a small turning point in that season as if I recall, we soon over took Arsenal (who were top at the time) and went the rest of the season unbeaten. Arsenal however struggled for consistency throughout.
Was that the game where Keown was being a gimp and all up in Van Horse's grill? please log in to view this image
Tbh I mark that game, and to a lesser extent the 0-0 draw in 2003 (with Keown losing it to RVN), as the start of Arsenal's ten year long mental disintegration. The reactions of the Arsenal players showed they had completely lost their mental discipline that served them so well back when they had leaders like Adams, Keown and Bergkamp in their ranks. Even Vieira lost it after that match - the next match he went chasing after Gary Neville in the tunnel, got owned by Phil Neville in midfield and Arsenal got hammered at Highbury. In pretty much every season since Arsenal have shown similar mental frailty when facing defeat or a tough opponent (even Stoke can rattle them nowadays). Players lashing out, picking fights and whining to the ref rather than getting stuck in and working for the win. That loss of discipline has played a massive role in their lack of trophies since then imo.
The 2004 match was all hyped up by the media after the result the previous year. You could tell the Arsenal players were rattled by it, and it showed in their performance on the pitch. Like I said in the previous post, those two games set the tone for the next decade, with Arsenal disintegrating in the face of serious, disciplined and combative displays by Utd, Chelsea, Stoke and pretty much any team willing to have a go at them.
Yeah, just after RVN had hit the bar wth his penalty. Without that there would have been no unbeaten run and no ridiculous ****ing 'invincibles' Or, to put it another way, draw specialists.
Which year was it that we smashed Arsenal with our second string side, when we had the da Silva twins playing as wingers due to all our players being unavailable?
2011 I think we played seven defenders, with Gibson, Rooney and Hernandez. Arsenal passed and passed and passed, we scored and scored and won
Arsenal did seem to become unhinged by those two games with United to be honest. For all the BS Arsene talks about Mental Stwenf and beleef, it seems to be exactly what Arsenal are lacking. For lack of a better term, for the last decade they have been a team of very skilled Pussies. They need players like Vieira, Keane, Keown, Terry, Adams....they are too lightweight, figuratively speaking.
Today Matth is a gimp 10 years a go, Matth was a younger gimp in 10 years time, he will be.....you guessed it.....an older gimp. Happy Gimping Matthew please log in to view this image
When you think about all the great p.l sides, they all had leaders and tough players to compliment the genius type players. This includes the Arsenal team of 2003. To think Wenger oversaw that team yet seems completely blind to the fact they need some more of those types again (adams, viera, petit, keown etc). Beggars belief. Keep buying midgets, keep bottling titles Wenger.
The classic comment in the Utd v Arse has to go to Roy Keane. Veierra was slagging off Gary Neville in the tunnel ,so Keano stepped up, and asked Vierra if he was born in Senegal. Vierra replied that he did, so Keano replied "The why don't you f.**ing play for them?" Game set and match to Keano
