This week’s Iconic Moment is one that I will never forget. It came in the biggest match of my team Arsenal’s history and effectively ruined our chance of winning Europe’s biggest prize. The match in question was the 2006 Champions League Final between Arsenal and Barcelona. The moment that I am going to write about […]
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Iconic Moments in Football No.73
Former Germany, Bayern Munich and Tottenham Hotspur striker Jurgen Klinsmann made a name for himself for diving. Throughout his career, he was scythed down many a time by opposition defenders, but he needed no encouragement to roll around on the turf after being challenged! When Klinsmann left his native Germany for Tottenham Hotspur in 1994, […]
On This Day – 4th December
On this day in 1965, Tottenham Hotspur’s Frank Saul was sent off in a 1-1 draw away to Burnley. This may seem a bit of an odd thing to be writing an article about, but there is a reason why I’m writing about it Saul became the first Tottenham player to get sent off in […]
On This Day – 14th October
Youth team graduate Jason Crowe made his debut for Arsenal on this day back in 1997 and it would be a match that he will never forget.Crowe came on in place of experienced right back Lee Dixon at the start of extra time in the League Cup Third Round tie at home to First Division […]
On This Day – 10th October
Eight months before his clanger against USA in the 2010, Robert Green made history by becoming the first England goalkeeper to be sent off.The red card came on this day back in 2009 in a qualifier away to Ukraine. England had already qualified for the World Cup in South Africa before the match had even […]
On This Day – 7th August
Alan Shearer was sent off for the first time in his career on this day back in 1999. His career had begun eleven year prior at Southampton and he had joined Newcastle via Blackburn Rovers, where he had won the Premier League title in 1995. The red card was as a result of a second […]
On This Day – 5th July
The 1994 World Cup in the USA was to be a hugely disappointing one for Gianfranco Zola.The Italian playmaker had been a spectator for all three of Italy’s group stage games. Zola finally got the nod though in the Second Round in the knockout match against Nigeria as he made his World Cup debut on […]