Invincible Record In Tact

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    Al The Gooner
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    Something that’s gone unmentioned, on here at least, is the fact that City have finally lost a league game and for one more season, at least, our Invincible record will remain in tact.

    Let’s face it, we have very little to smile about these days and even less to shout about, so I’ll take it!

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    Too many still discredit that. That drunken git, Ferguson, decried this saying we drew too many games (12 out of 38) and I think that United tradition of being bad losers continued with Mourinho also suggesting that this was not a great side and that his team of two years later were better as they only lost one game but got more points, or something to that effect. Repulsive individuals both of them, that Invincibles team was the best in Europe and should have won the treble, but you know who #### ed that up. ( Aliadiere in the FA Cup semi- final) and then the resultant loss of confidence before we played Chelski three days later in the CL.

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    the specialone
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    Al,That invincible team was extraordinary.The mentality was the best we’ve ever had in our club and yes I’m proud to say that my club Arsenal still hold that title and probably will never be broken.Arsenal achieved that though,Not Wenger.The only credit id give Wenger is to gather an extraordinary bunch together.They had a natural born winning mentality,All Wenger did was make them believe.Hed never have achieved that if there were some weak minded players though.

    Saying all this,I also think it is much tougher to achieve it in modern football.Better managers,Stronger teams,Varying philosophies.But these teams have unfairly gathered their squads so it’s fine.i knew somewhere down the line city would lose atleast one game.

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    Wenger didn’t achieve the invincibles league win? What about the two doubles before that? I ve heard it all now. Of course the players achieved it, everyone involved does but to say the man that assembled the team and managed them didnt is a frankly the stupidist thing I’ve ever read on here.

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    the specialone
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    fatmop – I didn’t mean to say not wenger,what i said was most credit should go to that bunch of team,less to wenger.Truth is he signed players that were extremely talented,but also had a natural born winning menality.in his years,he’s done nothing to “improve” the mentality of the player.Infact,back then i don’t want to speculate but in the past decade if you gave him a mentally strong player he’d turn them weak
    aka cech.

    It’s pathetic how you keep defending wenger.what possible explanation is there for what he’s acheived in his first decade and what he’s done in his second.Some of the absolue thrashings we’ve gotten over the years.he’s only gone backwards,he’s a fraud who’s been found out and had he not gotten lucky with those players he signed there’s no telling if he’d win all those trophies.he’s french,talent was emerging from france and he spotted them.Good for him and congratulations,but he’s lived on that reputation for far too long now.I don’t hate wenger now,i despise him for the postion he’s put the club in.An excuse of a manager right now.

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    The Oracle
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    I wondered when someone would bring this up as something from yesteryear to cling onto. It was 14 years ago back in the day when Wenger had some semblance of knowing what he was doing and we had organisation and flair. It doesnt matter how many games we drew, what matters is we got more points than anyone else and won the title. We had organisation, flair, pace and the right mentality. It was a great season but the start of it all going wrong. But for tactical errors in the CL Quarter Final from Wenger and poor team selection in the FA Cup Semi-Final we could and should have won the treble. We were the best side in Europe and it still angers me we didnt fulfil our potential. It was after that season that Wenger’s ego got ahead of him and he lost all sense of reason.

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    Al.i was starting to think that citeh would go unbeaten all
    season.i have to say that i think our team was much better
    than citeh’s.if i had to pick a starting 11 from both sides
    THE ONLY citeh player i would pick would be de bruyne.none
    of citeh’s back 5 would get in our team,and i certainly wouldn’t
    pick silva for bergkamp,or aguero for henry.i also think teams
    were better defensively back then to now.

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    Agreed Steve. So many critics and pundits are lathering themselves over City and saying that this is now a far more competitive League than when the Invincibles were in their pomp. I’m not so sure, as you say defences were much better then and we had United and Chelsea to contend with that season. Who have City got that’s anywhere near them? We are crap, Liverpool’s defence has been for six months, Spurs are under-achieving and United, despite Mourinho’s outaly are nowhere near City!

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    Al The Gooner
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    Agree about de Bruyne, Steve but I can’t think of a single player from the Invincibles I’d want to replace with him. Only other City player I wouldn’t have minded in that side is their ‘keeper. Jens always made me nervous and you never knew whether he was going to be at his brilliant best or have one of his brainstorms.

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    AndyC
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    Al – i agree on the lehmann front but not for the invincible season, all his issiues started with rest of squads – game 50 and the loss to UTD. through the invincible season Lehmann was immense.

    I honestly cant think of a single players i’d swap, possibly Kolo for Stones, buts thats me just trying not to be biased. There is also case for De Bruyne over Freddie and Walker over Lauren other than that our team was head and shoulders above City in every department.

    Im little gutted City wont go the whole season unbeaten, too long its been used as a justification for wenger.

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    Al The Gooner
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    Andy, you may be right that Wenger wouldn’t still be here if we hadn’t gone unbeaten although, to be fair, I doubt it. However, if City had managed it, you can be sure it wouldn’t have made any difference to whether Wenger keeps his job or not.

    Fact is that had City emulated that season (and you won’t get great odds on them doing it next season, anyway) it would have just been rubbing salt in the wound that is Arsene.

    For me, it’s bad enough the state that he’s brought our great club to. The Invincibles and the record FA Cup wins are about all we have left to hold on to – without them, we’re just a great club going downhill fast.

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