Book description
The 2003-04 football season was a landmark in the Gunners' already
illustrious history. Consolation for the Arsenal's costly Cup exits
could come in the form of an achievement the like of which might never
again be repeated. as they remained undefeated in the Premiership
right to the end of a triumphant red-and-white roller-coaster ride.
Once again, Arsène Wenger's side have raised the bar to a point
beyond anything that has ever been seen before in British football.
Sport lovers everywhere have been regularly left absolutely agog in
admiration of the sublime skills and athletic grace that have brought
some much-needed beauty back into our not-so-beautiful game.
Aresenal All 4-1 is a week-by-breathtaking-week account of the
Gunners undefeated exploits. A blow-by-blow description of the
season's legion of snakes and ladders; sending offs and resultant
suspensions; mad refereeing decisions (both misjudged and
misappropriated!); gobsmacking game-changing goals; and heart-stopping
howlers. It is a tale of ten tantalising months of trains, planes and
automobiles, over land and sea (and Leicester), from one of the
privileged few Gooners who witnessed every game in this wonderful
odyssey from the terraces.
Relive this scintillating season of total football as revealed in
the sort of charismatic reports that could have only come from a
Gooner who cut his teeth on the tedious triumphs of the Arsenal's
infamous flat back four.
Bernard Azulay was born in North London in 1961. When he was five,
his father introduced him to 'the Home of Football', and his
relationship with the Arsenal was sealed in the back of the car leaving
White Hart Lane in 1971 when Ray Kennedy signed his programme: 'To
Bernard, whom I travelled home with after the game'. He now writes a
regular column for the Irish Examiner, Ireland's fastest-growing daily
paper, and is a contributor to The Gooner fanzine and the Arsenal-World
website. He lives a few pitch lengths away from the famous Marble Halls
with his partner Róna and their pooch Treacle.
