Eurosport - Fri, 28 Aug 13:08:00 2009
Arsenal will head to Manchester United on Saturday for the biggest Premier League match of the season so far. They have faced off in some league and cup classics over the years.
Manchester United 0-1 Arsenal: October 20, 1990 (First Division)
Anders Limpar's goal gave Arsenal the win at Old Trafford en route to the old First Division title, but the match is remembered more for the fighting than the football.
Arsenal were deducted two points and United one after a 21-man brawl that shocked the public and entertained fans for years to come.
Nigel Winterburn went in late on Dennis Irwin, Brian McLair lost his head, perhaps with a previous encounter with Winterburn in mind, and started kicking him, Limpar got involved and then everyone else bar David Seaman piled in.
With hindsight it is hilarious that no-one was sent off as nowadays merely stepping to a man is enough to warrant a straight red card.
The FA acted retrospectively but the incident set the scene for what was hitherto a non-rivalry - United had been too mediocre to matter for the previous 20 years.
Arsenal 3-2 Manchester United: November 9, 1997 (Premier League)
Arsenal became the second team to complete a second double of FA Cup and league wins and, in doing so, beat United in a five-goal thriller at Highbury.
Anelka opened the scoring for the Gunners, who went 2-0 up when Vieira scored a superb goal soon afterwards.
But United fought back to parity through a Teddy Sheringham double to set up a grandstand finish.
Midfielder David Platt did not disappoint, winning the match with a typical header on 83 minutes.
It was probably one of the most fully-rounded Arsenal-United clashes with crowd violence adding to the drama: a Tottenham legend, Sheringham wound-up the home fans after scoring while United keeper Schmeichel and Gunners left-back Winterburn were both hit by coins.
Manchester United 2-1 Arsenal (a.e.t): April 14, 1999, Villa Park (FA Cup semi-final replay)
You can be forgiven for allowing Ryan Giggs's wonder goal to detract from what was otherwise an exceptional match.
United took a first-half lead with a classy long-range strike from David Beckham in a game that ebbed and flowed until the Gunners equalised midway through the second half through a Denis Bergkamp shot that deflected off Jaap Stam and squirmed under the body of Peter Schmeichel.
It took on a whole new dimension when Roy Keane was sent off for a second yellow card and, with the introduction of Marc Overmars, Arsenal were all over United.
Nicolas Anelka had a goal disallowed for offside and United's dream of an unprecedented trophy haul seemed to have been ended when Phil Neville brought down Bergkamp to give away an injury-time penalty.
But the drama had only just begun. Schmeichel saved Bergkamp's spot-kick to force extra-time, during which Giggs ran from halfway, beat the entire Arsenal back-line and fired into the roof of the net to score an outrageous goal that ranks among the all-time greats.
United went on to beat Newcastle in the final and win a famous treble and Giggs was rewarded with the PFA award 10 years later.
Manchester United 0-1 Arsenal: May 8, 2002, Old Trafford (Premier League)
Arsenal clinched a famous double with a 1-0 win at main rivals Manchester United in a match that Gunners fans have since immortalised in a quite funny song.
Sylvain Wiltord has never been regarded as the greatest of players but he had a knack of scoring vital goals under pressure: two years previously he hit a stoppage-time equaliser in the Euro 2000 final against Italy that France went on to win.
He finished on 58 minutes after Fabien Barthez parried Freddie Ljungberg's shot as Arsenal won their last 13 matches that season to pull clear of United.
Manchester United 0-0 Arsenal: September 21, 2003 (Premier League)
Another clash of the titans in which football was secondary, this bore-draw was memorable for the deranged, simian scenes that saw players from both sides land in hot water.
Arsenal were furious with United striker Ruud van Nistelrooy after Patrick Vieira was sent off for aiming a swing at him.
Ironically for a player renowned for going to ground rather easily, the Dutchman stayed on his feet, but the Gunners felt that his reaction helped get Vieira dismissed and they took great pleasure when he missed a late penalty.
Let's call it 'Monkeygate', as Martin Keown's taunts stood out more than anything else.
One of football's nice guys off the pitch, the former England defender danced around Van Nistelrooy like a big yellow chimp, provoking Ryan Giggs and Cristiano Ronaldo into a melee that also saw Ray Parlour, Ashley Cole, Lauren and - unsurprisingly - Jens Lehmann hauled in front of football's authorities.
Manchester United 2-0 Arsenal: October 24, 2004 (Premier League)
In an incident that will forever be known as 'Pizzagate', United and Van Nistelrooy got their revenge for Monkeygate with a 2-0 win thanks to a late Wayne Rooney goal and, appropriately, a controversial Van Nistelrooy penalty.
The match was a tense and angry affair but everything seemed in check until afterwards, when Arsenal - whose record, 49-match unbeaten run had come to an end - kicked off in the tunnel.
Sir Alex Ferguson left Old Trafford looking like a struggling mother covered in pizza, soup and possibly baby sick.
Fingers were pointed at various players but both clubs played-down the row.
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doris why do you keep posting that????? have you turrets in your fingers or something???.....
well said foeyp,couldn't agree with you more
foeyp, get it right.......CHORLTON-C U M- HARDY, right ..............
foeyp chris, as a player, when he is on form their are few that can touch him, he has power and pace with skill and vision i would say an all round striker of high quality.....as a person, well even though he wears the red of united that does not disguise the fact he is a bin dipper, and i have said many time i would not boo him whilst ever he wears a united shirt, but it has never sat right with me that he's a scouser playing at OT.......and before you get on the owen trip, he's from chester although he had a stint at analfield does not make him scouse.....
its a good job you can't hear peoples accents on this yahoo boards as you would fins scouse hater the avid Manure fan is actually a mockney Lives near Charton and masquerades under about 5 different names to name a few dazmanutd silent assassin badger. He's a right warped little schitzo
APPLICATION FORM FOR MUFC SUPPORTERS CLUB
I wish to become a Manchester United supporter and I confirm that:
1) I was born nowhere near Manchester and am prepared to show no loyalty to teams located in my local area.
2) I confirm that I know absolutely nothing about football and will never seek to improve on my ignorance.
3) I am a pretentious glory seeker and have rejected supporting my local team on the grounds that they might not give me enough reflected kudos.
4) I am prepared to eat prawn sandwiches and totally reject meat pies, burger and chips and pints of beer on the grounds that these reflect the traits of true football fans from other clubs.
5) I will buy a replica shirt at least twice a year and appreciate the kindness of the club in regularly changing the design, of transferring Ronaldo and Tevez and of increasing prices in the Club shop, in the interests of us supporters.
6) I am only interested in winning and will sulk unreservedly if we do not win every game. Equally I will stop watching matches if we do not win regularly and will switch my allegiance to another team if they look more likely to win trophies.
7) I will never publicly admit that Sir Alex Ferguson may have Alzheimer`s disease, that the Glazers have no money and that the club is in huge debt and that our best days may well be over.
8) I am a total t**t.
Signed....................
Some of the grammar and sentences here are just horrible!!! Did any of these idiots’ graduate from University or even go to college? Talk about parents needing motivation to ensure that their kids are well educated, just log unto these yahoo forums and see the about of illiterates around. I find myself reading sentences again and again just to make sense to what these morons are saying!!
Back to the game tomorrow, I think it will be a tough game like always. I think with Ronaldo gone Man U definitely have lost more fire power than we have with Adebayor. If Cesc plays tomorrow alongside Song and either Denilson or Diaby with Arshavin, Van Persie and Eduardo up front (please Wenger don’t start with Bendtner ) in the 4-3-3 formation then I fancy our chances. The midfield battle will decide the game, best of luck Arsenal.
All the salford red sox fan's are now wearing barca shirts now.ha ha fickle manure fans
Whatever Fella,go ask your mum to make you some jellied eel's and then relax with some chas and dave music ,you southerner's wind up so easy,love it,Don't worry about city's 3 star's,you have been tossin over badge to long..never mind,do me a favour don't turn into a city fan in 3-4 years,we don't need window licker's..
scouse hater what do you actually think of Wayne Rooney as a player and a person?
I think it will be a close battle but United to win. 1-0.
@Doris Im a Man u fan, i was "born and bred" in manchester and I see far more United shirts in manchester than city shirts..
I see a few more city shirts nowadays though since all the money arrived, before that they were all wearing Chelsea and Arsenal shirts. :D
you dont pay tax to manchester, cos you all live in stockport......
doris blue nose you will find its Manchester city council fella, that's were mine goes to.....dipstick eheheh
doris i think you need to get a reality check fella, 10 year plan??, what will that be 4 stars to symbolise 40 years without winning the title. all the money in the world can not buy you the class we have, the stature we have, the trophy's we have, the lineage we have, we have always been the bigger brother and you will always be in our shadow, get used to that little fact.......
2-1 to the gunners.....man u are on a happy downward slide...hahahahahahhahahahahahahahaha
COME ON YOU GUNNERS
MU vs Arsenal classic match? U r gonna be kidding.... I bet these two team will be relegated by end of the season..Hell Yeah! M. City rules!
Manchester utd fans pay council tax to salford council ,sorry i mean london borough council dipstick,ha ha lmao
dorris Small club with 3 stars on top of their badge to symbol 10 years of no trophies for each star! CITEH also boast a stadium (the council house) paid for by manchester united fans from there council tax (as city fans dont pay it in general) .....
city are aiming for a top 6 position this season,can't see us doing any better,it is a ten year plan to make salford red sox look stupid.history is there to be written,no point boring people about the past like manure l-pool etc,manure have been buying titles for years and spoiling the epl ,almost like the boring spl,the new world order is coming and fergie and the cockney's don't like it when the big rollers come into town ,unlike the skint yanks who don't have ten bob .ha ha ha
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