I take your point as 2004 was a much better team, however beating Chelsea would have meant us having to avoid ****ing up for 3 more matches, 180 minutes. Who knows how we would have coped with the remaining games and team rotation.
Jeremie Aliadiere to start up top. Blimey.
Henry scoring that chance meant 20 minutes and surely victory?
The circumstances of 2004 certainly hurt more as we utterly blew it, Paris was more a sense of disbelief that we were actually winning.
SWv2 "The absence of a European triumph, or indeed coming close, is often held up as a reason to knock them."
It really was a missed opportunity given the teams which reached the Semi-Final that year
And going out to a Wayne Bridge winner in that Quarter at Highbury...
A CL in 04 and another in 06 would have suited me
10 characters? Pile of cund.
That year Chelsea knocked us out was our year and pretty pivotal to the future of European football.
Chelsea played Monaco in the Semi Final but Ranieri found a way to lose but then a young Jose Mourinho masterminded a famous win for Porto in the final...next up was his victory lap around Europe with Chelsea, Real and Inter and years of endless Arsene torment.
Should have got the job done that year imo
Last edited by Tony C; 04-18-2018 at 12:34 PM.
It’s part of the reason I just can’t see us winning the EL.
After witnessing stuff like the above, Galatasary in the UEFA, Paris in 06, Birmingham in the Carling Cup...I just think we’ll find a way to screw it up.
We’ll probably beat Atlético 5-0 over the 2 legs then lose on penalties to Salzburg in the final