Season starts next month with a game against Inter. This video brings back memories!!!

By Bulldog Drummond

They don’t come much better than that.  Edu takes his shirt off.

With American owners it is not too surprising that our pre-season tour for 2021/22 will start in the USA.  In this case in Orlando, where we shall be playing a game against Inter Milan and then one of either Everton or the Colombian team Millonarios.

The games are going to be held at the Camping World Stadium, Orlando.  Mr Arteta made all the obligatory comments about playing in front of “our American fans” and it being a “first-class environment for our preparations for next season.”

Now I am sure lots of web sites and newspapery things will be telling you about this tourney, but what they won’t do is dig into the Inter Milan game the last time we played them.

It was the usual two legged affair, with the first game on 17 September 2003, and the return on 25 November 2003.

The first match was a disaster at Highbury – we lost 0-3 and no one expected too much from the return game in Milan.So what happened?

The main comment before the match concerning Inter, was “They’ve only ever lost once at home against English opposition,” implying that having lost at home, Arsenal might as well save themselves some money and not bother to go to Milan. Bit of a waste of the plane fares.

You’ll probably remember the result, but it is sooooooooooooooooo worth watching again.  And that first goal from Henry is just so amazingly cool.  The video is 21 minutes long and really really worth watching all the way through if you can spare the time.  And here’s  a bit of a hint of just how good it got – it was 1-1 at half time