It has long been viewed as one of if not the greatest team achievement in the Premier League era. Other contenders are Manchester United winning the FA Cup and the Champions League alongside the Premier League, or Manchester City’s centurions.
Regardless of where you think it ranks with other teams’ achievements, no one else has ever managed to do it. Arsenal went a staggering 49 Premier League games unbeaten in the early-2000s, which included an unbeaten season which led to the tag of ‘The Invincibles’.
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Arsenal’s incredible unbeaten run began at the very backend of the 2002/03 season. Arsene Wenger’s side beat Southampton and Sunderland at the end of that campaign, and then carried the momentum into the new season when it rolled around in August.
It continued throughout the entirety of the famous 2003/04 campaign in which Arsenal won the Premier League title with 90 points, 11 more than second-placed Chelsea.
Having achieved the seemingly impossible, Arsenal’s next task was to keep the streak going for as long as they possibly could. That meant there was immense pressure in the 2004/05 season for every single game. They kept it up for another nine games in that campaign before Manchester United won a controversial match at Old Trafford 2-0 in October 2004.
2002/03 season
2003/04 season
2004/05 season
The players involved in that incredible unbeaten run will be remembered forever by Arsenal fans who were the right age to enjoy it, as well as Premier League fans who were subjected to their dominance. One player certainly stuck out more than anyone else as the face of the team, though.
Thierry Henry started 48 of the 49 games in the unbeaten run and scored a frankly ridiculous 39 goals in the process. Kolo Toure was an imperative player in defence, starting 47 games.
Jens Lehmann was imperious between the sticks, while the silky Robert Pires scored 23 goals in 40 starts. Other important names include Lauren, Sol Campbell, Gilberto, Freddie Ljungberg, Ashley Cole, Patrick Viera, Dennis Bergkamp and Ray Parlour.
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