The Chronology part 9: the 2000s

1999

1999/2000: An Arsenal forward line the likes of which we had never seen before.

2001

Arsenal anniversaries 21 April 2001: Starting the longest sequence of scoring in home games

Arsenal in 2000/01: second in the league for the third year running!

21 August 2001: Arsenal 1-2 Leeds – why this game was so special

Three home defeats and then the season turns round. 18 December 2001

2002

Arsenal 2001/2: the problem of scoring, and after three second places, Arsenal come top

2002/3: the fourth runners’ up in five years. Could Arsenal not win the league again?

28 September 2002:  Leeds 1 Arsenal 4.   Arsenal beat the record of 22 away games without defeat. 

20 September 2002: Arsène Wenger said, “Arsenal can go unbeaten all season.”

2002/3: the fourth runners’ up in five years. Could Arsenal not win the league again?

2003

Arsenal anniversaries 10 August. 2003: Media predict Arsenal will finish 5th

11 August: Just one man predicted the unbeaten season in 2003

On this day in 2003 Paul Merson predicted Arsenal would win the league unbeaten

2003/4: the proof that the Almighty really does support Arsenal

On this day Arsenal lost a friendly v Peterborough. The omens were not good.

2004/5

On this day in 2004 Ferguson predicts AFC will win the league – but not unbeaten

2007

29 September 2007: Wenger says he’d hand £100m back to the club.

2008

23 Feb 2008: when the wrong Arsenal player was sent off and his ban doubled on appea

2009

29 August 2009: When the world turned on Arsenal.

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