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Arsenal legend Dennis Bergkamp has become the sixth player inducted into the Premier League Hall of Fame. The Dutchman joins Frank Lampard, as the former Chelsea, West Ham and Manchester City midfielder was inducted earlier today. Bergkamp scored 87 goals in 315 Premier League appearances for the Gunners, forming one of the best partnerships in […]
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Dennis Bergkamp joined Arsenal in June 1995 for the sum of £7.5 million. He became one of Bruce Rioch’s first signings, breaking the club’s transfer record in the process. The Dutchman had performed incredibly for Ajax and for his national team. Inter Milan came in and signed him in 1993, but he struggled with the […]
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This week’s ‘Greatest Goal’ comes from Arsenal’s Dennis Bergkamp against Sunderland in January 1997.The goal was the first in a 2-0 win in an FA Cup Third Round replay at Sunderland’s former Roker Park ground. It may well have been one of the greatest goals seen at the stadium where Sunderland played for 99 years. […]
I am writing about this hat-trick 23 years to the day since Dennis Bergkamp scored it. It could have featured as today’s ‘On This Day’ article but I felt that it was more deserving in the ‘Football’s Greatest Hat-Tricks’ category. The hat-trick came in Arsenal’s fourth match of their 1997/98 season in a 3-3 draw […]
Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium hosted its first ever match on this day back in 2006 after spending 93 years at their iconic Highbury Stadium.The inaugural match at the Emirates was Dennis Bergkamp’s Testimonial, in a match against Ajax. The first half was between the first teams of both two sides and the second half was played […]
A clearly delighted Bruce Rioch with his new striker Dennis Bergkamp, 20th June 1995 It was on this day a quarter of a century ago that Arsenal Football Club changed forever.They had reached the final of the European Cup Winners Cup for the second successive season, losing in the last minute. This run in Europe […]
Dennis Bergkamp in his Ajax playing days The second Dutchman in a row to join the Far Post Header ‘Hall of Fame’ and for me, Dennis Bergkamp was a certainty for this list.Bergkanp is the finest player that I have ever seen play, better than Thierry Henry who is the second greatest. It is no […]
Holland’s Dennis Bergkamp (right) scores the winning goal past Argentina goalkeeper Carlos Roa (left) (Photo by Michael Steele/EMPICS via Getty Images) I could easily put twenty of Dennis Bergkamp’s goals in this series. He was a scorer of great goals as opposed to a great goalscorer and had fantastic vision, close-control and skill. There was […]