Thierry Henry - Legend (documentary)

you take his record the greatest strike ever he was so powerful i have never seen a player being so dominant in the premier league there's a grace and ilan a beauty about the way he moves he is the stuff of slow motion collages which take the breath away in full flow i don't think it was a better sign than seeing on re running at the opposition theory was the best striker i think in england maybe the best tracker in the world [Music] he was unplayable i mean you can't give him any bigger compliment than that from a defender's point of view he was literally unplayable without one of the greatest footballers that has ever lived the word great is is overused but in tierra's case it is absolutely true i think he's a wonderful human being he was unbelievable for arsenal football i think he came as an ambitious young footballer and he left with arsenal in his heart in his eight years at arsenal thierry henry emerged as the most exciting player of his generation he performed with flair and finesse guile and grace passion and pride and always with real drive and determination he embodied the arsenal spirit in his time with the gunners an irresistible force that helped his club hit new heights and set new standards under the guidance of manager arsene wenger and alongside hugely talented teammates he helped arsenal win a double and go through an entire 38-game league campaign unbeaten twice he finished as the leading scorer across the whole of europe and four times he picked up the golden boot in the premier league he became the greatest goalscorer in arsenal's history and the record scorer at highbury but the facts and figures don't tell the full story thierry henry is an arsenal legend not just for what he did but the way he did it do [Music] [Music] when thierry henry danced through the sparta prague defence in october 2005 to score this goal he was confirmed as arsenal's all-time leading scorer his final tally stands at 226 goals and no player has such an extravagant array of strikes i always say like any goals that you know does count they're all important and sometimes you know you score some goals are you know they are beautiful and with it if you know that can be the winner that can always be um like our surplus it's difficult to pick out the best goal you know [Music] it's difficult so many times i did like the top three the top five but now you know that now that i'm not there anymore it's difficult to to pick one you know the one you have like so many goals were important for different reasons and because of the team you were playing at the time and at the moment and [Music] i really don't know it is an impossible task to choose the greatest from so many superb strikes but with a little help from his friends here's 10 of the best to enjoy all over again [Music] what a goal [Applause] inspiration for arsenal whenever i see that goal i'm always like did i do that [Music] basically the problem that he gives commentators is that how can he score when he gets the ball there and just the sheer guts to try because some players are frightened to attempt the really difficult in case they miss but others have the audacity to go for the seemingly impossible and achieve it and poor fabian bartes it was one of those moments where i think everybody just went wow how did how did he do that and there were a few of those i'm all about instinct i felt like doing this and and he went in [Music] the game against liverpool when we were two one down at omen and we won the game four two i've never felt a library like that before when i scored the goal to to make it free too i felt that that goal was you know just a big relief for everyone one of my favorites because it was a big relief was carrying on his goal against liverpool when we went down after having been knocked out by chelsea in the unbeaten year and that's still the title that you know he's an artist with a ball you know and he's got you know great balance and great skill and and pace to go with it and he can go either side and you know he just uses your body you know he's thinking you know like a chess player he's thinking like four five six uh moves ahead so that's the quality of tier really and it's [Applause] i don't know how he did it but he just fought for for a ball and you know it was a great finish if you ask defenders it's the worst thing they can deal with really and plus joe because he's you know powerful as well he's got that strength he's got a height helps so much as well you know he just knocks past players and just makes it look easy and he's like he's running on you know nothing really just glides it's not going to bother arsenal because they've got terry henry on the ball and zanetti trying to catch up with him audrey steps inside perez is there aurey will have to do it alone sensational goal from thierry honore to secure a sensational result for arsenal there are hardly any footballers in the history of the game who have the capability of picking up the ball in their defensive third going from the defensive third into the middle third into the attacking third and scoring at the other end i don't even think pele was able to do that physically an amazing looking animal his build his speed i think he could have been an olympic athlete had he not been a footballer born with the touch and footballing brain that he had that's not just any defender that's chasing him you know that's javier zanetti one of the greatest fallbacks ever to play the game and zanetti actually does his job he catches up with terry henry forces him to check forces him onto his left foot job done for the defender oh no it's not i think we were the first english team to to beat royal madrid bernabeu sometimes in this kind of game you need big players to come in and make something important for the team and he was the one to do it [Applause] he scored he scored for arsenal sometimes i see it you know on tv and yes it is a great goal but i scored sometime more difficult goal than this one but you know because maybe the opposition wasn't real madrid and and the place was in santa cruz so nobody talked about it but sometimes you know you need to score the goal at the right place you can capture you can catch him when he's gone he's gone [Applause] [Applause] you run in the olympics i think his understanding of the game and his movement was his big strength you know you put that together with the base then you've got an explosive dynamic center forward [Applause] good spin by away from daily terrific shot wonderful goal arsenal back in business and they can do that in the blink of an eye it's very very hard um to mark him particularly if you're a center half that's why i'm glad that i was a left back and didn't come up against him too much the the little flick is almost like um a sound presser or erotic tossing the ball up before delivering a fantastic case it's just a it's an impudent little dink before the explosion that comes thierry henry is a scorer of flamboyant goals a great goal scorer but a scorer of great goals oh good running by reyes henry in the near post position here how did he get that in well i don't know if it's magic or not magic when the ball arrived at the very beginning i just wanted to make sure just chilled it but then fortune was all over me and i couldn't really move from him then i just looked at the ball and uh and i saw a space between his legs so let's see if it's going to work and the ball went in and then you worked you're often surprised when he doesn't score everybody knows what he's going to do and the defenders have been primed to try and deal with it but knowing actually the reality of trying to stop him hugely different an astounding goal he's sort of hypnotized the opposition and people are thinking well he's you know he's having one of his off days and then bang he was just like he would just explode with something and score an absolutely amazing goal he just pulled you everywhere you know you'd be standing on the right back spot you know and you'd be non-affected because if you're going to stand with him you're going to explode into the middle and you're lost i think the goal against spurs really sums up thierry not only was it an extraordinary goal in itself the fact that it was against the great rivals just made it so so different i'll do well to catch up with thierry henry though he's drifting away from car henry what a fabulous solo goal by thierry orry it was a special goal against uh tottenham which is when you play against tottenham you know that it's more than important i will never lose against tottenham i'm so happy to say that ah so great he was at arsenal long enough to to realize what beating spurs meant to arsenal fans i mean he's unmistakably french in everything that he does but he actually became the town his manic figure and actually captured the whole arsenal spirit during the time that he was at the club and so to score probably his best ever goal at highbury against tottenham in a big win and that probably is just about as good as it gets for any arsenal player to be honest i don't know why i ran so much after the girl i was dead for nearly two days after that i still have the the picture when i stop in front of in front of the tottenham fans and um whenever i look at the picture i always see new faces disappointed anger some some of them some of some of the faces of the fans like i know actually no expression so we're just like looking i just uh it sounds like your favorite photo it's not far not far from me it's a good it's a good picture [Music] [Music] the summer of 1999 and the first steps on the hybrid turf for thierry henry he arrived with a big reputation having won the world cup with france the year before but also with a huge task ahead of him after star striker nicholas anelka had left for real madrid and nelka goes through the center he's away from the defenders two-nil so one young prodigious french talent replaced another but thierry was a very different player to his predecessor he'd made his name at monaco as a winger where arsene wenger had given him his debut he went on to win the league title in the south of france and proved himself a prolific goalscorer in the champions league however his move to juventus in 1998 turned to disappointment and so the man who'd first spotted him in monaco decided to bring him to arsenal i met him in monaco when he was 17 and a half years old because i saw him play with the youth team and i thought this guy creates chances and after the coincidence of a young player you know they pushed him wide they kept him wide he became a winger lost the appetite for scoring goals and then he failed he convinced himself that he cannot score goals because that's what everybody reproached him and i thought let's have a go and let's start through the center again like when you were a boy i came as a winger yeah and uh and the boss told me straight away you're gonna play in the middle and i looked at him and i went you know no not being you know cocky or anything but i said to him i'm international as a winger just want to work up as a winger people know knows me around the world as a winger i'm established as a winger and you want me to play in the middle you say yeah trust me as soon as a player signs you go into a you go into trial mode with the players that you sign with everybody looks at your first day and goes yeah you can play or no he can't it didn't look a striker to me that was the first thing i thought he doesn't look like a striker and and he wasn't he was rubbish money i don't think many people would have thought that thierry would have turned out the way that he did i mean into an absolute superstar now and his confidence was a little bit low you could detect that straight away but if wenger was backing him you know we we felt certainly um you know he must be a very good player everybody made me feel welcome but after once is done you know you have to show them that you can that you can deliver and at the very beginning i wasn't doing that and uh you know the guys were letting me know that uh when what was needed to do you know to play to play for us not football club you know i won't go into details but i'm sure you can imagine with the likes of tony and martin and lee and nigel what he was like in training sometime i saw as my responsibility as being club captain to actually let people know whether it's great or anyone really at the club what was um required what were the requirements of this great football club and you know dave roach arsenal got arrested so always used to say remember who you are what you are and who you represent but tried to instill yeah absolutely what it was and what was required from jerry on a daily basis to be a winner and to be a successful guy it's just packaging it all together and bringing out the best of him and putting him as a central striker was really the key to that we worked on him on some specific runs and finishing and he got the appetite again and then he became calm in front of golly because he was intelligently understood quickly what was important and it became a tremendous gold score thierry's first appearance came as a second half substitute against leicester city on the opening day of the 1999-2000 season there were chances to score but none of them were taken and it looked like thierry might struggle to find his feet in english football whenever you play football and you play for a team like arsenal whenever any happen after whenever you don't score it's a drama why you don't know sometimes you're trying to do everything bad opportunities that was the most important thing if i can say the most important thing is to put it in the back of the net but no i wasn't really worried you know i think it was more a question of time than anything else in the end it took eight games for him to get off the mark but then any seeds of doubt were spectacularly blown away his first goal came down at the dell just eight minutes after coming off the bench against southampton tony adams [Applause] couldn't stay with him it's first as an arsenal player and one that he and the arsenal supporters present will remember for an awful long time to come but it was a relief because you know having everybody was expecting me expecting the goal and also on the other side it was the goal who won the game you know i think it's always important when you can score goal or it's important in the game the way back from scoring that goal i think i said to him you know i can tell my kids that i was there when henry's got his first goal because i could see that there was a fantastic ability there it was just a matter of time before all came together for him and as it proved he was an outstanding player for arsenal we were saying he's going to score soon and get his confidence and he did you know and you could see it lift off his shoulders and this big weight [Applause] it's losing out then henry hits it that is a fantastic goal this man has really found four [Applause] could be another goal for him here it is taken with greater plum i think his intelligence and the way he's settled in london life i think he enjoyed himself which showed on the pitch and he got to know the history of the football club and you know the language he mastered he speaks better english than me an intelligent man he always used to come and play against me in training and i used to tell him to go on nigel's side because i've had enough of him and i'm going to kick him and then nigel threatened to kick him on that side so he tended to sort of join you know jostle with a pair of us for a bit of a laugh but that was his strength as well as his goals that he scored his ability to change his pace so quickly if you let him turn and run at you you know it's going to be an absolute nightmare so he his movement uh and the way that he received balls and the position he he moved into made it very very difficult for him to be marked and i'm pretty pleased he didn't come out my side too often [Music] maybe the frenchman with just a little sharper turn of pace henry oh what a strike by andre thankfully i only played against him twice but um i saw enough of him uh you know and number one is the the physical aspect that he brought to he was lightning quick powerful um and of course you know the finishing was um second to none dixon [Applause] it's world-class and steve bold isn't enjoying his return to highbury when you're playing for sunderland then like steve was against thierry he didn't get much of a breather that day and i remember looking at him about halfway through the second half and he looked 85 if he looked today well i have to tell you that uh although i was the excuse i was 36 years of age i think at the time but it did tell me that i ought to be thinking about hanging my boots up steve bold wasn't the only player to be outpaced and outgunned by henry in his first season in english football the 1999-2000 campaign brought him 26 goals in all competitions more than half of them scored on his own ground highbury undoubtedly had a new hero and for thierry he'd found his spiritual home [Music] [Music] [Applause] his first strikes at highbury came against derby county on the 28th of november 1999. it began a love affair that lasted seven years as he went on to become the most prolific goalscorer in the stadium's 93-year history [Applause] i don't have any words to describe avery it's ridiculous you know as you know you know i scored a lot of goals there and for me it was it was like my garden you know i just whenever we had to meet over there and i had to walk on the side of the beach to go in the dressing room it was just amazing every morning and we had a meeting there i always wanted to make sure that i was working there because that feeling of the empty stadium that you know maybe in three four hours is going to be full and hopefully that the fans will enjoy what we're [Applause] here's doing decide he gets across in front of him still on ray just keeps on his feet hungry yes did now here's a situation that thierry henry could exploit against chris berry it's the classic one against one and on rhys oh yes i think it was the history of the place that he took on board it was the marble halls it was the there was something sort of french in it in a way you know there were some great palaces in france that appealed to him but i think it was more the history of it but he had an absolute deep-rooted love of the ground and of course the fans there because sheer ability on his part he won the fans to the point where they could turn around to any other football club in the country and say well we've got a player as good as you you know you can talk of rooney you can talk of ronaldo but we've got tyrion i would have looked for him to play in front of the north bank when he was terracing because that was that was a special end and it was great to score a goal at that end and i think he would have even loved it even more if there'd have been terrace in there and they'd have all come falling down the terracing and swaying it's it's a great feeling to be down that end and it's a special uh special place but he knew that and he felt he felt there was something special there with the fans it's another extraordinary goal from thierry who's been a scourge of manchester united and of many other clubs arsenal oh brilliant that's a lovely ball to andre inch perfect cherry on ray goes for edge [Applause] that is one of the finest goals you'll see all season that season was the last at highbury and when the curtain finally came down on the much-loved old ground thierry marked the occasion in the most appropriate fashion a win against wigan was needed to keep in with a chance of securing fourth spot in the table and a place in the champions league qualifiers plus closest rival spurs had to slip up which added huge drama and tension to a day of high emotion fittingly thierry produced a real captain's performance [Applause] inside eight minutes [Applause] he's gone for goal he's done it and it's arsenal won wigan two as it stands it will be spurs finishing fourth and it's what we're going to do here already puts arsenal 3-2 in front it's a gift but one great fully taken that's a campbell [Applause] penalty whatever thierry henry achieves his name will be forever associated with highbury and on the last day here he has a hat trick it was a pretty weird day really weird even though it was a great one because i thought nameless after at west time and we reached the fourth spot and i mean it would have been better to win the league on the last year of the last year at library but you know if you ask uh any arsenal fan what could match winning the league overtaking tottenham i think a great picture of you kissing the turf was that something you planned no i didn't plan it i didn't plan it but i think it was a feeling at the time just a goodbye really kiss the ground and the only player who could do that and make the the the crowd so happy it was was theory because all the goals he scored there all the trophies he won for for the club so who better than thierry to score the last goal at highway you know i had a lot of great memories there great goals ugly goals everything you know the fans that togetherness that we had in the stadium there you know the pressure that we used to put on teams there it was just amazing henry's contribution to the game is enormous as as if he does write his own scripts but then it just went through and ended with he and ashley cole poignantly sitting on this podium in the middle of this wonderful old stadium and in thierry's case somebody had come from abroad too and you know into this culture but had really taken it into a system and knew as much as any you know 70 year old arsenal fan who was probably weeping at the demise of the ground what it meant what the day meant one thing that will never disappear because i do think somebody one day will come and erase my name from the top of the list but i will always stay as the guy who's called the moscow at ivory whatever happened so that will be a record that can never be broken and for me it's special because i had the special feeling with the fans there and and with the stadium so that's something that uh i can be proud to shout about as well as being club captain in the last season at highbury thierry had the honor of skippering the side for the historic inaugural season at emirates he even scored the first arsenal goal there in dennis bergkamp's testimonial [Applause] [Music] [Applause] the greatest name of the modern arsenal gets the first goal for arsenal in the brand new emirates stadium out for the first time at the emirates stadium what did it mean to must be a little spooky almost after hybrid i have to be honest the first five six games it looks like uh we were playing away even though you know you have your fines there and everything's going and they're singing like always but felt like playing away did it suddenly feel like home when you scored the late winner against manchester united at the emirates then once that's one of the game also that i saw like i had like an explosion in the stadium uh i mean for me to score ahead in the last minute of the game [Applause] that has to take us to be something something special and yeah he felt like something happened in that game yeah the stadium is amazing the pitch also but to lead the team out was just great just great but you know i'm old school i'm old school and for me you know playing so for such a long time at ivory was kind of a double feeling really [Music] [Music] the biggest cheer of the day will be in 2003-4 arsenal went through an entire league campaign unbeaten an incredible achievement in the modern game the team played with style and flair but there was also a steely determination throughout the side everyone contributed to the course and thierry added the x factor the special ingredient that could turn a defeat into a draw and a draw into a win pierre can you take it off first touch just wind it a little bit oh it's pushed out and it must be a goal for all route arsenal what have they taken less than five minutes [Applause] [Applause] i just think the way we're playing at that time was the was the key because we had the ball most of the time and it was just like a one two three passing game and we were already in the box of the opposite side and and scoring like in the flash it was just it was just crazy to be honest togetherness the commitment we are together and and the confidence but just um abnormal you know everybody was kind of you know tuned in and and willing to win and at the top of the game and uh you know we all were kind of chipping in together and yeah all those qualities kind of came together and um made a fantastic team and you know terry was definitely a part of that he wanted to win you know cherry is a winner you know at that moment he was playing you know on his best scoring goals defending helping the team you know was the leader so we played like that it's easy to win prophecy you know who it's brilliant once more sierra re reaches out for perfection you knew if if they had the quiet 20 minutes that that maybe that switch would be flicked and then i'll re go game over it's thierry glide through and gets the goal that marks his 100th in the premiership for arsenal in a season of many highlights perhaps the most impressive was thierry's display in the good friday showdown with liverpool when the merseysiders twice took the lead and threatened to end arsenal's unbeaten run [Applause] just what arsenal could do without i think in that period he was playing with a real hunger and a passion and that gives you that extra yard and it you know if we went behind in games you could almost see that he was taking it personally and dragging the team you know through and getting the goals we needed so that sort of period you know he was really coming into his own and a very important player for [Music] us and away from him [Applause] lifted over the top [Applause] all right there's no flag he's in on goal he finds the goal please look at the assistant to mcgallagher checks as well but it is too low to arsenal perhaps if you wanted to look back on just one little one little cameo of what ari brought to us though that would be the best evening to do it and he was unplayable you know there was no way that um leeds could have had another 11 out there and he'd still find a way through it he's definitely on side he's in for number three [Applause] like this like this electrifying electrifying it's four for the foremost striker in that season he hit 39 goals and picked up both the pfa and football writers player of the year awards for a second consecutive season here was a special talent harness to a team who rewrote the record books he was running up in in both the european and world football of the year polls um that season runner up to two different players the dan and nedved see down okay nedved superb player better than thierry henry at the peak of his powers as he was then double footballer of the year second season running in england i don't think so i think he was just about as good as anybody on the planet right then i think that in that year of the unbeaten season it was just everything about him the whole stature of him and people can look some people could look and said oh you know he there was an arrogance about him there was an arrogance about pele there's an arrogance about kroy there was certainly an arrogance about maradona and the arrogance was really channeled into his understanding of the qualities that he had and his ability to take on opposition and to turn games games that were probably uninteresting and even when thierry was not playing well you expected when it was nil nil and arsenal were up against it one player would bail you out and that would be thierry and his ability to just turn a game on its head the title was clinched at whiteout lane after a 2-2 draw with spurs and celebrated in real style before the team went on to finish the season without losing a match the next target was to surpass nottingham forest's 42-game unbeaten run in the league and it was thierry's goal against blackburn at the start of the 2004-5 season that set them on the way to victory in the record-breaking game the final tally eventually reached 49 consecutive games unbeaten isn't that just arsenal isn't that just typical you can only qualify a great team by renting stuff unfortunately for us when we did that we won the league so you you have something with it not only playing good football you have something with it you know the goals that we were scoring were amazing but i just would like to to to talk about the team effort and talking about the unbeaten run because to do it in a modern game it's it's very difficult to you know not lose a game for 49 games and obviously having one unbeaten season and [Music] you know hope maybe another team will do it in the modern game or i don't know but hey to do it it's uh it's a hell of a task hopefully hopefully arsenal can do it again [Music] [Music] so [Music] thierry undoubtedly played his part in one of the most successful periods in the club's history but amidst all the glory there were also moments of heartbreak and despair in his first season at highbury the gunners just missed out on european glory after a thrilling run in the uefa cup in which he contributed seven goals scoring in every round the t takes it and they've got it from [Applause] this is ray bala [Applause] tapped in by thierry already all [Applause] take a big step towards the uefa cup final [Applause] and that final took place in copenhagen and many expected arsenal to triumph over their turkish opponents galatasaray but it was to be a frustrating evening how didn't win that uefa i don't know i commentated on the final and generally they you know there were strong favorites going in but it was a disappointing ending to a campaign in which audrey certainly announced himself it's a bit of a mis-kick by bergkamp over mars had a look to see what was on in the center went for goal himself and tafarel my goodness needed to stop that all right now they're turning foot from the freshman what a chance [Applause] carla worked it wide well this time it's already safarella's kept it out somehow i think it was a game that we were we were expected to win it wasn't a fantastic game we had a couple of chances we we basically did didn't take them and in the end it can come down to a penalty shootout no we we had a really bad penalty shootout [Music] i think we had the opportunities in the game to win it before but we lost it you know some time football is uh is weird stretching his legs and getting away from dixon and getting his shot away that is just absolutely fantastic he has won the club for liverpool all by himself there was more misery in the millennium stadium 12 months later but the setback seem to galvanize the gunners you need the help in the in a way sometimes you you learn from your mistake and and you you always try to to remember the bad memories to make sure that it won't happen again unfortunately sometimes he dies but hey you know we managed to win the double the year after let's go from campbell we'll talk face by southgate pulled back towards parlour came to orrin [Applause] through the middle has youngberg seen him he has and already scored [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] yes 3-2 arsenal guess who thierry horry he was brilliant i mean that season there was a lot of really good players but he he he led the line perfectly well and he gave gave space and and certainly a lot of passes to perez and lumberg that season were absolutely outstanding as well so the three of them probably won us the league on their own [Applause] parlor [Applause] absolutely extraordinary has to take full responsibility gary neville here is [Applause] vartez it's a catastrophe again well i think that season you know all the front players by their development you know they became much more collective and so did he sharing it around you can think of the passing movements you know vieira getting in on the act as well perez uh berkamp you know he he really was you know at that stage part of the fabric of the arsenal team and maybe that was the peak certainly for that group and he was right at the head of it particularly [Music] [Applause] in stoppage time arsenal complete the comeback and if they win again they'll look to re again as they have done in every premiership victory this season and every champions league victory this season the frenchman is the main man the main amanda was more than happy to share the limelight robert perez finished the season as footballer of the year after some fantastic performances that is an outstanding goal from a magnificent player and it was freddie leunberg who found his shooting boots in the chase for the title as his goals helped arsenal to a run of 13 consecutive wins no one could match their ruthless attacking edge and the first trophy of the season and of thierry's arsenal career came in cardiff with an fa cup final victory over chelsea wilton that's his best play of the game really carla can we have a crack in it it's a vintage fa cup goal for arsenal it's always a special game against chelsea and especially i always remember the goal of ray paulo and what a goal i mean the two goals were just goes to well wove goals i think to to win any game and uh to win it against chelsea it's always something special arsenal have produced two absolute stunners here and maybe chelsea are now finished four days later arsenal had to travel to the home of their closest rivals in the league manchester united knowing that the double was in their grasp if they avoided defeat however an injury prevented thierry from taking part i was at home i didn't miss a lot of game that season but unfortunately i had a little problem with franklin park in that game in the fa cup twisted my knee and and i couldn't make the trip to old trafford but it was a weird feeling if you know what i mean you know i was looking at it watching it on tv and i'm like i wish i was there we controlled that game not even once in the game i was panicking you never know what can happen but you know when you have that feeling of not panicking because the team that you're watching and your team is just like give you so much confidence that you you you're not panicking so the only thing is when we scored i was like i just wanted to go there mistake by sylvester walter has got plenty of place youngberg it's freddie youngback again pushed out by bartes wilson arsenal have scored yet again in the premiership and this could be the most crucial goal of all [Applause] i think to win the league uh at ultraford it's well i don't know if it's the ultimate because that will give them too much credit but uh it's not bad freddie youngbird rather stole the show in the closing weeks of the season silva wiltor got the goal at old trafford but thierry henry's 32 goals were what won that double for arsenal he was the difference there was another fa cup triumph 12 months later with a one-nil win over southampton a result which gave arsenal a community shield match against the team who just pipped them for the title the rivalry with manchester united became one of the biggest in football during omri's time with the gunners the games between the two giants were epics and there were always plenty of talking points the rivalry with mine united were more hyped and done by the price a couple of times in a tunnel yeah that's true but but after that you know it's just a game you know sometimes you see you see other team fighting and arguing and there's not so much hype about it and obviously you have winners in one team winners in another team so everybody wants to mock the territory and that's just the way it is but when the red blue the whistle it's it's a game you know it doesn't go beyond that but then obviously with the praise sometimes they extend it for four or five days it wasn't all just about united and arsenal though russian billionaire roman abramovich arrived at chelsea and they became a major premier league force under the guidance of jose mourinho that's camera gas up to the head of armory [Applause] comes to any club and does the same thing everybody will be happy so you can like complain about it you know suddenly chelsea became a team who was challenging to a team who was winning so obviously you you suddenly you had like a third team i think he made it more interesting for everybody in the premiership because for a little while it was all mine united arsenal first or second well you know mine united did it with their with their youth team uh i also did it with uh with founding youngsters all around the world liverpool does it also with people around the neighborhood and abramovic does it this way injury deprived thierry of a place in the 2005 fa cup final win over manchester united but the following season he captained the side on an incredible run to the champions league final that's a lovely ball there's a chance here for fabric ass and now for thierry aubry arsenal two juventus nil one thing was important also is we were known as a team we were playing good football fancy stuff and going forward pretty quick but we didn't consider a goal for a very long time in this campaign which is i think against as the record of and the team also of that concealing goals in successive games in in the champions league so that was a way of saying that sometime you can also defend by by going forward we managed to do the both unfortunately for us wasn't enough in the final [Applause] [Applause] referees pulled it back what's he going to give i do think if we had stead 11 against 11 it would have been another game even one nil down i do think it would have been another game because we were at 10 playing more than well i would like to say against a team who was well known as the team at the time all right george campbell saul campbell for arsenal against all the odds [Applause] cleb is on the ball it's thierry henry oh stop by voters at one point i think i had an opportunity in the second half that i had nothing left in my legs when we hit the hour it was a bit too much to hold against barcelona 10 against 11. out as far as belletti last in good control tucked into valletti nothing armonia could do after a game like this that you've been waiting for so long to reach the final it's harsh but you know you have to swallow it [Music] [Music] great players need great teammates to make the most of their ability and thierry had no shortage of assistance from those who played alongside him it was certainly far from a one-man show and there was always a real bond between all the players that was obvious to see however perhaps his closest companion was his compatriot patrick vieira i know patrick for a very long time i played with him in the under 21 and i played against him before when he was playing for cannes you know we used to share the room also at arsenal then after we stopped sharing because he was snoring so it was a bit difficult to sleep nice and you're a joke now we stopped sharing but great player a great asset for the club you know one patrick wasn't on tune the guy just could play alone in the middle of the park one patrick wasn't cheating he was just an animal that's what you need some time in a team patrick was the the guy that whenever people were playing house knows they're like uh we have the around at the weekend it's gonna be a tough one you know and sometimes the game was one already there when patrick was playing well i had like four opportunities to score each elf when he wasn't okay i had one because we were not getting the ball early and it was more difficult to to break the defense of the of the opposite side but patrick was more like a leader uh on the pitch by the way he was playing you know i mean he wasn't too vocal in in addressing but the way it was on the page was just tremendous tony adams great arsenal captain and you learned a lot from him in the early days oh yeah yeah but i learned a lot from tony obviously because he was a symbol of that era but tony was really vocal to be vocal he was vocal and he was letting you know you know and that's what i like you know about about tony is if he wasn't happy with something that you were not doing and if he was happy with something that you were doing good also he was letting you know if you were not happy with it that's your problem you know he wasn't there to talk to you like in a nice way or or to make to make you happy or because you know you're young and i have to make sure he's happy and all settled and you know if you can't make it and you can't do it see you next time the winner of the pfa players player of the year for 2003 is beyond fair montreal tierra henry mumbrav i respect her i respect him as a human being player and off the pitch and on the pitch i think he's a wonderful human being he was unbelievable for arsenal football unbelievable and he deserves everything that he gets in life because he did know the history and what it was to be an arsenal arsenal player i'm sure he was very proud of that honor you know i never played underneath him but be a very different you know captain from me uh i would imagine that he he may be led by example and so sometimes you can win the game before you start because of the fear factor because george is the captain of the other team dennis bergkamp and what a gifted individual how good was he denis i would say i know i will maintain and i always said he was and he is and he will be for me the best player that i've played with [Applause] all right he's gone away from stops it [Applause] as a striker is a dream because if you move a thousand times and you receive the ball once every age average age elf then you can't express yourself you can always go but you have less chance but dennis whenever somebody was moving he was giving the ball that's why we are that such a passing moving team because whenever a guy was moving the guy who had the ball didn't want to shine with it just we were passing the ball and dennis was the master at that you know you were moving you have the ball and for a striker it's the best he's very special in in every way he doesn't really have weaknesses in his game he makes it look so easy he can create goals he can score calls he's got the pace he's got the strength and then he's got his skills as well and to come across a player like him i think you can do that once in every his mind i suppose with him he knew it was coming he knew yeah i knew i knew he knew also i was going to move i knew it was the ball was coming no like oh i thought you thought we fought now bang and similarly robert perez you had a very special on the field relationship robot was the same you know just just the same robot was just a pleasure to play with robert was you know what what the difference with a a great player it they will make the team shine here's luzhnik we'll tour ahead of here pierre's though now we'll talk and turrets great football from arsenal oh and henry equalizes wonderful [Applause] driving into space and finding silvan wilson he's got around auglamar will torch cross chelsea would you believe he's controlling him down here hd fabulous absolutely fabulous all that team we had we're all team players that's why people sometimes were like appreciating the way we're playing because we were not greedy we were passing the ball and sometimes you know people were saying that it looks simple because we're just passing the ball to the guy who was free [Applause] [Applause] is there any other player that we've missed out from that time from that era that you that you would single out all of them it was a pleasure to play to play also with uh with nyanko khan i mean you just kicked the ball and the guy will hold it for you and then you just have to move well it sounds simple i know but it's not that simple but when you play with a guy like that if you can move well around him it's a it's a pleasure silhouette was always current goal when he had to i mean that goal is called at atul trafford i think everybody will always remember that as an arsenal fan jose antonia reyes was a great player too when you look at some of the games that you played in the champions league and and in the league also you know it was it was great i can name the whole squad lauren was great it's all nice to play you know the beautiful football where we got we had guys at the back who were working really hard for seoul combat uh martin kian at the time colo arrived after you know actually cool you know we had that everybody knew we were always attacking from the left they couldn't stop us from the left so you know that that understanding we had with with ashley and and robert and myself was just tremendous sometime and the next generation is very exciting the player that's kind of bridging that gap between your time and and that time there'd be a cesc fabregas who seems to be getting better week by week doesn't he says has been great for a very long time but now he's finishing but what can you ask more from the guy assist finishing [Music] uh working hard he's young he has everything right now to be the best in england if not anywhere else um but he is obviously the guy of this era but he started so early that i think is the right time for him to shine he was shining before to be honest inside the pitch all you can do is just watch enjoy from him and try to to collaborate you know next to him but outside the pit you know the way everybody respect him the way he gives advices to the young people he has he had given me you know some advices and the ones some of them you know i will keep them in my mind all my love because they were very important you know at the time when he did it and and you know and he was a great captain it was a shame you know he left us but we wish him all the best [Music] [Music] football should be about entertainment and enjoyment and in his time with arsenal no one was more entertaining than thierry henry [Applause] you like to play football you know farms of football is a pleasure you know it's not the job you have to play like in the street yeah sometimes if you can do some skill you know and if it's working why not you could really almost go to any football ground in the country and there would be extra thousands on at any gate who were going there not to watch 22 players but actually turning up so that they had the privilege of watching tyrionry he had an aura about him that the defenders were scared of so they would sort of not letting him have the ball but they think well you know this is terry on race or what he's going to do with him before you know he had the ball at his feet he sort of commanded respect and he got it from players who played against him because he was so good tricks and flicks are all well and good but basically what he did was for the purpose of the team for winning the matches that's an another compliment to the whole package that re was [Applause] for me you know even you are seeing him on training watching him every time when he does things like this all you can do is just things like that because it's just amazing [Music] [Applause] it was unstoppable it was unbelievable i think was uh one of the best players at arsenal and you know [Music] he had everything it's just one of those days for andre he can do no wrong probably easily anyone could have done that um but it's fantastic to watch all the time the fans appreciate it as well i think it's the game you know sometimes the defender is coming at you you know trying to intimidate you trying to kick you trying to do stuff that that you lot can't see sometime or can't hear and i think it's fair if the striker scores and just give him a bit of a of attitude if they kick you and you just suddenly do something like a bit cheeky and you have a little smile at them you know it's nothing bad at the end of the day it's the game and i think you know that that was it with the emails nothing nothing else as you know he likes to wind up people and he did wind me up but i said to myself i can't leave the pitch without doing anything so it just happened really i wasn't looking for the nutmeg it just happened look at the faces of the stewards in the background and mills looks at the lines of say surely that can't be allowed it's uh it's like a magician it's like an illusionist um taking the mickey out of some poor stooges volunteered to come up on stage now you see it now you don't i did play against him on one occasion and we played england play france and i did get stuck in a little bit and mr wenger didn't speak me speak to me for a couple of weeks although he carried on picking me so but you know he was a sort of player he had to get around him quickly because if he didn't he would embarrass you but it's not just the flicks and tricks defenders and keepers had to be scared of with chierry he was equally lethal at set pieces what a magnificent [Applause] you get a feeling that when you get a free kick within 25 yards of the goal they're going to do two things one is they're going to hit the target and if they hit the target you probably think that they've got a damn good chance of scoring as well the opposing teams would be saying you know don't give free kicks around the edge of the box 25 yards in goal we could be in trouble and uh a lot of time cherry you know scored some wonderful goals from free kicks it is thierry henry it's a hat trick a brilliant champions league hat trick for thierry orrey i don't know if he ever quite got the recognition he deserved as a free kick taker he's such a a conjurer with the ball you can see the the markings of the ball spinning through the air uh look at the height that he gets there's somebody jumping in the wall and it's still way way way over him and there at the end of it is another poor goalkeeper who barely moves just completely beaten just given the best view the front row seat to see thierry henry at work it'll be twice in four days there was absolutely nothing they could do to stop him perez leaves it for thierry henry wonderful goal it's the finish of a true master that's the all-round ability of him really uh that's the confidence he uh has about himself his ability and that's good really i mean you know you need that you need that you know he's confident as a human being and uh sometimes he wants to take everything free kicks corners and penalties and uh i think he got his way with [Applause] another facet of thierry's game is his ability to create goals in his time at arsenal he frequently provided the ammunition for his teammates and in 2002 three set a premier league record of 23 assists in the height of his career here he was scoring something like 20 20 odd goals plus a season but more crucially he was the provider of at least 20 odd goals a season as well well that's you're talking about 40 to 50 goals that he's scoring or supplying so that just showed you at that period of time how important he was to the team henry perfect pass perez perfect goal sometimes when he just opened up his body and slipped it to someone else because he's created the massive hole um the yeas at which they scored goals was quite frightening children will turtle was a fantastic finisher as well i made it look very simple and sometimes he would explode him behind defenses and draw the keeper and pass it across for a simple tap in by another player if you could get up with him my best ever goal i've ever scored for arsenal as far as i'm concerned somebody might disagree but it wasn't an own goal and i think it was against deportivo and again i got a header on it and then thierry would be able to pick a pass out as well as the best midfield players that we've ever had because he had an eye for a pass as well [Music] [Music] has anyone had a bigger influence on thierry's career than arsene wenger well arsenal's most successful ever manager seemed to bring the best out of this exceptionally talented player truly it was a special relationship i made my debut for monaco with him i was 17. i just turned 17 two weeks after my birthday he made me start the game and a lot of players were playing for the reserve like players who were 21 22 have been waiting for so long to have to have a chance to play why you took me i had to ask him that i don't know but that i will always be thankful because maybe if you had chosen somebody else why you took me i really don't i really don't know why you put me back in the center after also when i arrive at arsenal you can see things that nobody can biggest talent ever maybe in football had everything you dream to have when you're football player highly intelligent uh analyzes very quickly time of uh analysis of his of the game around him was very quick uh great pace great power great jump he used only 50 of his jumping power to score goals because he could have been a tremendous header of the ball he didn't fancy it too much but he had aspects in his game that he didn't explore completely you know and still managed to be the best gold scorer ever in the modern game what he did is just amazing he said so many times you know people want to change a player you know try to make you do stuff that you can't do and he said to me i don't want you to do that i want you to carry on doing what you do best you know if you know you maybe you're not good with your head or whatever you know okay work at it okay but you know carry on doing what you what you can do running at people and trying to score goals you know just be you don't try to to be someone else he said to me don't ask yourself the wrong question ask yourself the what the right question because sometime in the game you can always blame others but he was always telling me to make sure that for example if a guy doesn't you know you think the guy didn't give you the ball in the right way or whatever he was always telling me that maybe that i didn't move the right way you know try to in a negative to stay positive not always easy trust me but you know if you take it in consideration it can help it was nice with other people love to a discussion you know was ready to speak always no it was a nice guy i just think it's the status that creates responsibilities and the responsibilities creates a doubt sometimes am i up to it today did i do well or will i respond with dennis berkamp it was exactly the same these guys had a special responsibility and this special responsibility of course creates a lot of pressure on your shoulders one of the thing with arsenal also is a great human being he's a great boss too ronaldo is a great human being and you need that to deal with a team and you need that to deal with the team and he he always get the best out of his players it's just unbelievable he's a great visionary is there anything he ever said to you that you thought kind of took you to the next level how did he motivate you personally well the bus whenever you go to the office of the bus you you go to tell him something because you may be a bit down about something or to talk about the game or whatever in your life and you leave his office you're laughing and and and you actually forgot to tell him what you wanted to tell him so that happened so many times to me it's just great just great you know [Music] [Music] thierry's last strike for arsenal came at middlesbrough in february 2007. the riverside proved to be his most prolific away ground this being his sixth goal there for the gunners [Applause] his final appearance in an arsenal shirt came a month later in a champions league tie with psv he came close to scoring on the night but couldn't stop his team slipping out of the competition he picked up an injury that ruled him out for the rest of the season and three months later he moved to barcelona it was the end of a glorious arsenal career but he left behind a million magic [Applause] memories of beauty how would you like to be remembered by the arsenal fans and what will you remember of the arsenal fans always gresta has always been nice with me uh especially when i first arrived and i know and i couldn't find the back of the maze just pure understanding and love with each other and when you have love sometimes you have arguments and you have not not great moments but the love is was always there the only thing i would like is just to be remembered however people wants to remember me i just would like to be remembered that's the that's the only thing was important i always said that i wanted to make history since i started to play football and to make a story you have to live like a choice a proof where you've been and i've done that with the record i've done it also with my team but i just would like to be remembered people only remembered people who who won and did something for the club [Applause] will tour all right is this the 100 you bet that's quality absolute top draw quality remember when they signed in they said he wasn't really a striker 100 goals in 181 games i think he'll be remembered as one of the greatest i think you know i'm plucking him out as possibly the greatest individual in so much that he could pick a ball up and run the length of the field and score [Applause] i played the game how it should be played you know um and he definitely one of the guys who revolutionized the arsenal attacking attacking-wise anyway omri at the far sensational goal he's got arsenal in his blood and he has shown that uh all the way you know when he's been playing for for the club he's been fighting he's been trying to win you know and what can you say he's a winner he always loves to win for for him for the teammate for the club you all you can say is thanks to him for all he's done as an arsenal fan [Applause] is the leading goal scorer in arsenal's history think of the forwards who played for arsenal he is the leading goal scorer in arsenal's history i think that automatically makes him one of the best five players who've ever played for the club he may well be the best got a shirt signed from him and he uh said all the best there uh only 224 goals to go or something um but that's that's that was nice really i got that framed of my room um but yeah his record is just you know it's fantastic it's thierry henry's 200th goal for arsenal and it's an absolute beauty from the master he's a product of the television age so the legacy will is there forever every goal and thierry henry my grandchildren hopefully my great grandchildren are going to have to hear about him because super absolutely stupid top guy top player he was also an ambassador for the club as well i think people recognized that he he loved the club but i genuinely think that it was a huge wrench for him to leave the circumstances were right for everybody but i think deep down is a gooner in the position he was there was no better player in his time they loved the goal scorers and they love the people that can put the ball in the back of the net and entertain its entertainment entertainment industry and thierry was an entertainer whose class moved like poetry he will be remembered as a the best player of all times for arsenal i'm sure of it advanced player here other than henry for arsenal's fabregas here he is what a goal the master does it again that is magnificent will you ever come back to arsenal one day you always go back where you belong so hopefully hopefully one day that can happen well i don't know but you always go back where you belong you can go all over the world but the love that i had in that place and the understanding with the fans and everybody else at the uh at the stadium or whoever was working for arsenal always go back there that's for sure and i've seen it with everybody else all the you know the players who it's difficult to live awesome whenever you leave us not you don't really live also [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you

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Published: Fri May 25 2012