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On this day in 2001: Arsenal honour Rocastle with win over North London rivals Tottenham

31st March 2013 By ArsenalSupremo


Remembering David Rocastle
On this day in 2001, Arsenal beat their North London rivals Tottenham 2-0. It was an emotionally charged day with the football world reeling from the news that former Arsenal player David Rocastle had lost his battle with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma that morning. A minute's silence took place before the match, with the occasion impeccably marked by both sets of fans.

Tottenham had caretaker-manager David Pleat in charge after George Graham was relieved of his duties two weeks before. New managers in charge Glenn Hoddle and John Gorman were in the stands watching on running the rule over their new charges. Given the circumstances, it was understandable that a subdued home side took a while to get going but Thierry Henry did hit a post early on in the game.


Arsenal piled  the pressure on after half time and the breakthrough came with 20 minutes to go when Robert Pires cut inside from the left and expertly curled his shot into the far corner past the outstretched Neil Sullivan. Victory was sealed four minutes from time, Henry getting past Chris Perry before slotting home. 

Arsenal Team : Leaman, Dixon, Keown, Adams, Cole, Vieira, Parlour, Lauren, Pires, Henry, Wiltord. Subs:Manninger, Ljungberg, Edu, Luzhny, Kanu

RIP Rocky

Arsenal Classic's : Arsenal 5 Inter Milan 1 - November 25 2003


In our series we will post memorable Arsenal Classics along with match highlights. Today it is the turn of  Arsenal 5 Inter Milan 1. As a world class Thierry Henry inspired Arsenal to a rout of Inter Milan and stun the San Siro crowd. The game was even more dramatic due to the fact they lost the first leg 3 0 at Highbury.

Thierry Henry was at his best on this day and you put any defender in front of him, he still would have scored. It was Henry’s best performance in his career as far as I could think of.

Henry opened up the scoring after a slick pass from Ashley Cole to make it 1-0. Soon Christian Vieri on the other end scored a deflected goal to make it 1-1 on the night an stays until half time.

During the opening few minutes of second half, Henry finds Freddie Ljungberg who waits and coolly slots it past Toldo to make it 2-1.

Third goal is the best you would have seen from Henry when he ran from this own half beats Zanetti and does a cool trick and unleash a shot on the far left to make it 3-1 for Arsenal.

Minutes later he sets up Ljungberg for his second making the scoreline 4-1. Minute later Robert Pires rounds off Toldo to make the scoreline 5-1 for Arsenal making it truly remarkable achievement for Arsene Wenger’s side.

Arsene Wenger "Not in my wildest dreams could we have predicted that sort of result"
Inter Milan Team : Toldo, Cordoba, Javier Zanetti, Cannavaro (Pasquale 59), Materazzi, Brechet, Cristiano Zanetti, Lamouchi (Almeyda 57), Van der Meyde (Cruz 69), Martins, Vieri.

Subs not used: Fontana, Luciano, Adani, Gonzalez.

Arsenal Team : Lehmann, Cole, Campbell, Toure, Cygan, Ljungberg, Parlour, Edu, Pires, Kanu (Silva 73), Henry (Aliadiere 89).

Subs not used: Stack, Keown, Clichy, Papadopulos, Hoyte.

Booked: Cygan, Edu.

Attendance: 50,000.
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