Premiership, 24.10.04, Manchester United 2 – 0 Arsenal
Six minutes after Ruud van Nistelrooy scored the penalty, Ashley Cole brought Cristiano Ronaldo down in the box. Arsenal fans always forget that. (BBC: United could have had another penalty when Cole brought down Ronaldo.)
They also forget that Kolo Toure pathetically threw himself to the ground in injury time after Freddie Lungberg played him in. It’s not a question of morals here, we were both as bad as each other. The difference is we deserved a penalty that game, they didn’t, and we scored a goal, they didn’t.
Their pathetic whining only comes from the fact they forgot how to lose, so certainly forgot how to lose gracefully. Had the referee not been conned by Robert Pires’ dive a year before there would have been no “Invincibles” tag to protect and they probably would have accepted defeat a lot more easily than they have done (and I apply that to present tense – they’re still awfully bitter about it. Aww).
It was a bloody brilliant day and the fact Arsenal fans were so cut up about it made it all the better. They were creaming their pants at the prospect of going 50 games unbeaten at Old Trafford and to see it all crumbling down around them with Roy Carroll having next to nothing to do was just unbearable for them.
Five players from the eleven who started that day are still at the club whilst all of Arsenal’s starters have moved on. Whilst a win over Arsenal these days doesn’t feel anywhere near as good as it did back then, let’s hope our lads can given us something to shout about tomorrow.
http://www.sport.co.uk/news/Football/25936/Ronaldo_I_was_warned_I_could_end_up_in_defence.aspx
fantastic
and i can remember that match so beautifully me screamin in my brothers (arsenal supporter) face WHO ARE THE FUCKIN INVINCIBLES…..
fantastic
absolutely fantastic
happy fricking birthday wayne rooney
heres hoping his birthday this year can bring the same over the top joy
to add to owens hattrick
Morning everyone. Not our cleanest victory, but in the end i could care less! AFter what they did a year earlier with Ruud, they had it coming!
How to win a match before the match starts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKj8msoEKEo
i went lookin for the highlights but i couldnt find it some i youtubed arsenal oshea 4-2 and one of the results was zinedine zidane v arsenal
youtube loves john oshea
ghtt
there are not those sort of fiery players in the 2 teams anymore.and as you knpw things have mellowed down between the 2 clubs and fergie and arsene ahave become friends.
costas.morning mate.as you say not our cleanest but certainly deserved and a good lesson for those arsed cunts.good to see rudd score the winner.
jack any link?
i remember being at the game, and all the united players seemed to be chasing the arsenal players down the tunnel to swap shirts, which i thought was a bit odd; finding out later that they’d had a load of tshirts printed commemorating their unbeaten run ha!
the double standards on this blog are crazy… when eduardo dives in a match against celtic, man utd fans want to string him up(?!) but when looking back on how rooney dived in this game its ‘we could have had another penalty when cole brought down ronaldo.’ its all just so petty.
if a MU player dives in the box on saturday and wins a penalty i know every devils fan that verbally abused eduardo would be cheering and wouldnt think that player was a dirty cheat. so inconsistant.
Dan, go to your arse blog or your scouse blog. U are in the wrong place. Still bitter over the end of your unbeaten run? You can take away the pen and we still win
Dan, I agree with you on the double standard bit, but I think you would be suprised about the number of United fans who would look down on it, just like many Arsenal fans have voiced their distaste for Eduardo’s antics the other day.
I spent all day arguing with my Arsenal supporting brother about how disgraceful the Eduardo dive was. After watching this, Rooneys was equally bad. This is cheating at it purest form, Zero contact, and in the box. I am ashamed that a United player, especially of Rooneys class would resort to something like that. Ronaldo always got a bad rap for diving, but to be honest it wasnt nearly as bad as people made it out to be. He would go to ground easily at times, but never just fling himself to the ground like Eduardo and Rooney did.
This shit needs to be stamped out of football, and Im 100% behind retroactive punishment. It is bullshit how UEFA pick and choose when to retroactively punish someone, but this should be common place. Maybe then people will stop trying to con the ref into gifting teams games.