But possibly gave us the sense of injustice that led to the Invincibles year? Three in a row, or two out of three and an invincible year?
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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.
God was I drunk that night. The George Abbott in Guildford's fault. I fancied lager and they only had Fosters and Stella so I ingeniously decided that watching the CL final and swilling endless pints of Stella was a good idea.
I can still recall the look on the Chinese woman's face at the chippy as I ordered. Not sure what she was more worried about, my ability to take my wallet out and pay or the likelihood that I was about to fall into the glass window behind me. :-(