Gunners Show They Have Real Balls
9 march 2006Daily Mirror
NIL-NIL to the Arsenal – but as glorious a “victory” as any that Highbury’s ghosts have witnessed.
And while the structure of the Emirates Stadium looms large over the famous old ground, they will talk about this night long after the pitch is turned into a garden for the luxury flats being built from this summer.
Nobody here last night will ever hear disparaging comments about Jens Lehmann without recalling the save of saves that kept out the greatest scorer in Champions League history and sent the Gunners through to the last eight.
And when referee Lubos Michel blew his whistle to end the longest 90 minutes ever endured in this corner of North London, he unleashed an outpouring of such joy that it would almost have been heard at Stamford Bridge.
Make no mistake, this was an unforgettable, unsurpassed triumph by Arsene Wenger’s players.
What made it all the greater was the fact that it had seemed so unlikely. Two weeks ago, Wenger’s side were almost written off before they
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