As we're unlikely to see terraces again at football, this is the virtual equivalent where you can chat to your hearts content about all football matters and, obviously, Arsenal in particular. This forum encourages all Gooners to visit and contribute so please keep it respectful, clean and topical.
SteveO 35 wrote: That's nothing - Rodders has got the commentary from last year's miracle of St James's Park hanging framed on his wall and covered in his own special 'laminate'
And I have the commentary from The Hawthornes from the season before tattooed on my pecker
Ah, yes... the infamous game when the commentary was cut off right about here;
StuartL wrote:There is a good tribute on Arsenal.con (although it was originally done after 20 years)
Was good to see from the referee's perspective what the cheating scousers were all moaning about after smudgers goal as this was something I had been wondering ever since...
He went over to the lino after pressure from the scousers - the ref had signalled for an indirect free kick, Smith had got a touch, it wasn't offside, there was no foul all of which were confirmed by the lino.
After Mickey's up for grabs moment the ref said he was the only one who knew just how much time was left and that Arsenal were going to be champions as there was only a few seconds to go.
StuartL wrote:There is a good tribute on Arsenal.con (although it was originally done after 20 years)
Was good to see from the referee's perspective what the cheating scousers were all moaning about after smudgers goal as this was something I had been wondering ever since...
He went over to the lino after pressure from the scousers - the ref had signalled for an indirect free kick, Smith had got a touch, it wasn't offside, there was no foul all of which were confirmed by the lino.
After Mickey's up for grabs moment the ref said he was the only one who knew just how much time was left and that Arsenal were going to be champions as there was only a few seconds to go.
Just read the interview with the referee (David Hutchinson).
Right at the end he says "there were 8 or 9 seconds left (when Michael Thomas scored)" - that's how close we came to missing out on The Greatest Night Ever. I knew it was close but I didn't know it was that close!!
What I wouldn't give for a Time Machine to go back 25 years and re-live that wonderful night
Jumpers For Goalposts wrote:Just read the interview with the referee (David Hutchinson).
Right at the end he says "there were 8 or 9 seconds left (when Michael Thomas scored)" - that's how close we came to missing out on The Greatest Night Ever. I knew it was close but I didn't know it was that close!!
What I wouldn't give for a Time Machine to go back 25 years and re-live that wonderful night
I remember thinking at the time, just as MT started running with the ball "The ref's gonna fucking blow the whistle... he's gonna blow it..."
You know I still can't believe that Steve Nichol didn't just chop MT down. In those days would have been a free kick, maybe a booking at worst.
Simply the best ever Arsenal moment , aged 22 it was the first title i could remember . I have replayed it through my mind today and the hairs still stand up on my arms .
I see a lot of you proclaiming this as the greatest Arsenal moment/victory of all time, just out of curiosity, if we'd beaten Barca in 06', would that have topped it?
VAVAVOOM 14 wrote:I see a lot of you proclaiming this as the greatest Arsenal moment/victory of all time, just out of curiosity, if we'd beaten Barca in 06', would that have topped it?
No. For me the CL is devalued because it's not just for champions. Had we won it in 06 we would have done so without having won our own league to get there and that for me, cheapens it. Don't get me wrong, I want us to win it, but mostly so we can say we won it tbh, also because you have to have won it as part of being a big club. Not the only criteria, as I still don't rate the Chav as a big club, but it is part of the criteria. I should clarify though that I would celebrate like a lunatic if we ever do win it.
Anfield 89 was special because of so many things. The 18 year wait. The mediocrity of our league performances in the 80's up to that point. The fact we had more or less won the league and then pissed away points against Derby and Wimbledon and we had looked to have blown it. Then having to go to the best team in the land and beat them by 2 clear goals against the odds, no one giving us a chance. And then doing it with literally seconds left in the last game of the season? Nothing will ever compare to Anfield 89 for me.
VAVAVOOM 14 wrote:I see a lot of you proclaiming this as the greatest Arsenal moment/victory of all time, just out of curiosity, if we'd beaten Barca in 06', would that have topped it?
Nope would of erased nayim only in my mind - you gotta realise most of us at the time had been through don Howe and terry Neill .... A field for me just about beats Alan Sunderland wembley 1979 just!!
it will never be topped whatever SKY might say about it.
to place it in context - there were hardly any live league games shown in the 1980s, so to have it live on a Friday night on ITV was amazing - no league game will ever have such a potential TV audience in this country again.
Oh to have had Facebook and camera phones back in 1989, my brother god rest his soul jumped up in our local when Micky scored and forget about the shelf he was sitting under at the time, cue splintering wood, flying pints and a minor concussion, it's was great back then , you did something stupid and there was no c**t shoving a phone in your face to record it.....happy days
