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00:00United matches in the late 1990s usually had a strong bearing on who would be picking up the Premiership title come the end of the season
00:08This encounter in November 1997 was no different with United in first place prior to the game and Arsenal third
00:17United held a better record in the Premier League over their North London hosts
00:21Arsenal had only won one of ten Premiership meetings between the two sides
00:27The Gunners had lost 3-0 at Derby a few days earlier and Arsene Wenger made two changes from that side
00:32In came Gilles Grimondi and Mark Overmars
00:35A lack of goals had been the Gunners' problem
00:38They'd failed to score in their previous three Premiership matches
00:42United keeper Peter Schmeichel was a major obstacle as they looked to end that goal drought
00:47In contrast, Alex Ferguson's team couldn't stop scoring
00:50They'd netted 13 times in their last two Premier League games
00:54There was one change from the side that had trounced Sheffield Wednesday 6-1
00:58Ryan Giggs replaced Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
01:01Plenty of experience and tension on the Gunners' bench
01:04Your match commentator is John Champion
01:08A Premier League summit meeting at Highbrick
01:12Given the recent history between these two sides
01:15Who on occasion have been more like warring factions
01:18Don't dare take your eyes off this one
01:24Full house of just over 38,000
01:26Every ticket sold a month ago
01:30Martin Bodnum will need to be on alert for this game
01:36No free kick this time
01:38And here's Overmars
01:41There's an attempt by Beckham to bring him down
01:45Challengers already flying in
01:48Setting the probable tone for the next 90 minutes
01:54Overmars
02:00Beckham's free kick
02:02To Philip Neville
02:08Ricky Buck tangling with Platt and it comes to Scholes
02:13Third playing first
02:17Third of the way into the season
02:20And at the moment a four point gap between the sides
02:23In favour of Manchester United
02:27His only Premier League defeat so far
02:30Came last month at Elland Road
02:36In prime goal scoring form
02:38Having bagged 13 in their last two league games
02:41Seven against Barnsley
02:43Six against Sheffield Wednesday
02:46But Arsenal
02:47A different proposition altogether
02:49And here's Overmars
02:52Comes to Anelka
02:54And Anelka has a goal and scores!
03:0118 years young
03:06How many more there may be in the future
03:08Is a matter for debate
03:10But that is Nicola Anelka's first goal for Arsenal
03:16A player spirited away from Paris Saint-Germain
03:21By the Gunners' French manager Arsene Wenger
03:24Scores a truly memorable goal
03:28Vindication
03:34A hybrid choir in rare good voice
03:40Void by the manner of Anelka's introduction
03:46Philip Neville
03:48Certainly a stunner for Manchester United
03:50Winterburn's header
03:54Now it's Beckham
03:57Scores
04:00Ballester
04:01Showed too much of it to Ian Wright and off goes Anelka
04:04Who's got such pace
04:06But not enough power to beat Schmeichel that time
04:09And then Hoddle
04:10Pushing that Anelka had been born in England
04:19Beckham
04:22Cole stepped over the ball
04:25And it's with Arsenal
04:28McCullough
04:29Scheringham
04:31Cole
04:32Two of them combining even though they don't speak
04:35Alec Dirks
04:36Intent that his
04:37Two strikers are not on the best of terms off the field
04:40Because on it
04:41They know precisely what each other
04:43Is going to do next
04:48Kala
04:52Right inside him
04:57Schmeichel
04:59Schmeichel
05:01Schmeichel
05:03Deflection on the shot
05:05Comes out to Platt
05:07Anelka
05:10Down not the net
05:11But the clock end
05:14Promises to be a busy day for Peter Schmeichel
05:17Beaten once already
05:19And constantly in employment
05:24This time though
05:26Having made the initial save he wasn't called upon to make a second one
05:32Leeds
05:36Leedickson
05:38Has been through all the hullabaloo of games against Manchester United many times before
05:46Platt
05:50Winterburn
05:55Neville's header
06:03Manchester United's record this season
06:05Eight wins
06:06Four draws just one defeat
06:09Twenty nine goals four and only seven against before today
06:16But they're under the cosh here alright
06:23Kala to take
06:25Adams near post
06:26Adams near post
06:31Comes out to Patrick Vieira
06:34That's another really special goal
06:39It's another Frenchman
06:43And Arsenal lead 2-0
06:49That is a cracker from Vieira
06:51His first of the season
06:52And he may not bag a better one
06:56Swerve as much as power defeating Schmeichel
07:03Pallister
07:05He's not looked to his normal self Gary Pallister today
07:11Platt's given it away
07:12Here's Andy Cole
07:14Blocked out of the air by Seaman
07:20He's not the only Arsenal man smiling right now
07:24Anelka
07:30Henningburg
07:37Manchester sharing him to Giggs
07:40Cole to his right
07:41Giggs goes alone
07:49Pallister
07:54One by Sheringham
07:56Giggs
07:58One back by Kala
08:05Bennett Neville
08:06Scholes
08:10It's good work by Paul Scholes
08:15Beckham to Cole
08:19Gary Neville
08:20And Sheringham!
08:22Paul's run back for Manchester United
08:28And having only recently departed Tottenham Hotspur
08:32It's a moment he will particularly savour
08:37His seventh goal in just 15 games
08:40Since the transfer from White Hart Lane
08:46Well found by Gary Neville
08:51Neville! Neville! Neville!
08:54Oh and Pallister has gone down and stayed down
09:00I have a horrible feeling it's that back complaint again
09:05He's got this ongoing sciatic problem
09:07That flares up from time to time
09:17He slid in
09:19To try and collect the ball
09:20And you could already see the pain etched across his face
09:23So debilitating
09:30He's not been moving freely
09:35Patrick Vieira the scorer of that stunning goal
09:38Being attended to by Gary Lewin
09:40But his problems as nothing compared to those of Gary Pallister
09:44And Alec Ferguson is saying
09:46Do we need to make a change?
09:47And the answer very evidently is yes
09:51Unfortunately they have a ready made replacement
09:53In the Norwegian Ronny Jonsson
10:17Big touch
10:19And Sheringham scores again
10:23And this game is brimful of special goals
10:34It's a new batch for him
10:36But it's a club he's committed to
10:38And a cause he believes in
10:47What a first half here
10:522 up to 2-2
10:54Arsenal pack back
10:55Scholes goes down
10:57Martin Putnam says no
10:59Winterburn was the defender
11:02And I think you can take it that Manchester United's manager
11:05Is not in agreement with the referee
11:11And that's why
11:16Go on, go on, go on, go on
11:18Go on, go on, go on, go on
11:20Go on, go on, go on, go on
11:22Go on, go on, go on, go on
11:24There was no flag from the
11:26Official on the far side
11:28Which might have helped Martin Putnam out
11:32Arguably he had a better view than the referee
11:37Picked off by Dixon
11:43And he got penalised
11:47And Arsenal keen to get on with it
11:52Kala
11:54Lukaku
11:57And the cross headed behind
11:59By Scholes
12:02There's a terrific ebb and flow to this contest
12:05Arsenal so dominant in the opening half hour
12:09Manchester United have scored twice in eight minutes
12:13And now with half time approaching
12:16Arsenal sense an opportunity to regain a lead
12:21Winterburn's got a problem
12:25And the feeling something may have been thrown
12:28Is right in front of the Manchester United supporters
12:33And the referee Martin Putnam
12:35Is coming across
12:38Winterburn doesn't seem keen to make a fuss
12:46Come on now
12:51And it's a good delivery and Schmeichel missed it
12:56Referee has given a free kick in Manchester United's favour
13:02But for a goalkeeper
13:0434 next week who is used to dominating his penalty area
13:08Was a very uncertain moment, the free kick was for handball
13:17By Ian Wright
13:19Referee's been for words with the fourth official just to report the
13:23Object that was thrown from the clock end
13:27Much more for Manchester United to smile about now
13:33Certainly will change the mood in the dressing room
13:36At half time, which it now is
13:39Classical first half, Arsenal
13:41Two to the good through Anelka and Vieira
13:44Manchester United hitting back strongly through the
13:47Recently departed from Tottenham striker
13:49Teddy Sheringham
13:50So he'll have enjoyed those two moments
13:52It is 2-2
14:01Enormously difficult to predict which way
14:03This game is going to swing next
14:06Here's Anelka for Arsenal
14:09Brandon to Henningberg and Nicky Buck completes the clearance
14:21Arsenal's defeat at Derby
14:24Was their first in the Premier League this season
14:26And it came in their 13th game
14:30To date they've failed to score in three consecutive
14:32Premier League games which is
14:34Almost unheard of for them
14:39Right
14:47But
14:51There's a little bit of dismay from Teddy Sheringham
14:53That Nicky Buck decided to have a pop from there
14:58Sheringham was available
15:00But ignored
15:06Dixon
15:08Sent tumbling by Giggs
15:18Ten year age gap between the two of them
15:24And applause for Nigel Winterburn as the
15:26Doughty fullback
15:28Goes across to take this
15:29Adams has gone
15:30As is his habit towards the near post
15:35Schmeichel comes and misses
15:36Not for the first time
15:39Applause
15:45It's hardly his best afternoon
15:51Alec Ferguson completed 11 years
15:53In charge of Manchester United this week
15:5711 trophy laden years
16:00Dixon's ball in
16:04Overmars
16:05Scholes got a toe to it
16:07And this is Beckham
16:10Glad
16:13Overmars
16:18Held up by Janssen
16:19Parler in support
16:21And having a go himself
16:25In short of goals Ray Parler
16:38The thing that gives this fixture
16:41An edge
16:42Whenever it's played is that
16:43Each team likes nothing more than to beat the other
16:49These are games that are
16:51Highlighted
16:52On the respective club's fixture calendar
16:55As soon as the fixture lists are published
16:57Each June
17:01Partly to do with status
17:02Partly to do with history
17:04Sheringham hits one
17:07And partly to do
17:09With shared ambition
17:15Hansen Bodnum has also
17:16A cricket umpire in his spare time
17:21Hansen Benger finished third
17:22In his first season
17:25All that previous experience
17:27With Monaco and in the J League
17:29Brought to bear
17:32But
17:34Not a real concern for Seaman
17:48And now Kerr
17:51Phil Neville was guilty of the foul
17:59And Arsenal have a free kick
18:04Been the same attacking force in this second half
18:06As they were
18:07For the opening half hour of the game
18:10Not to say they won't be again
18:15Grimondi
18:18Gold
18:20Out clear by Scoles
18:23And here's Cole
18:29Winterberg
18:33Gold
18:37Gold
18:39Gary Neville
18:44David Platt
18:48Kala
18:53Anelka
18:58But the crowd like what they're seeing of Nicola Anelka
19:03That his first
19:04Calling card was that goal in the first half
19:10But he looks to have a real future
19:20Bergsegger
19:22Ran away from Sheringham
19:24Platt
19:27Kala
19:30Dixon is up from the back
19:31Turned away
19:33For a throw by Philip Neville
19:38Arsenal beginning to look the more likely
19:42Ian Wright
19:45Johnson got a foot to it
19:49Good challenge by Adams
19:53Dixon
19:56Here's Bould
19:58Retained both possession and his balance
20:02Adams
20:03Manchester United not retaining the ball for any length of time
20:07And Wright
20:12So dangerous
20:17Schmeichel shaking his head at some of the
20:19Defensive shenanigans in front of him
20:24He has to look at himself today as well and
20:26Will probably admit in one of his quieter moments
20:29That it's not been his finest hour
20:36Kala
20:41Ian Wright
20:43Overmars is in the centre
20:44So is Christopher Wray
20:45So is Winterburn
20:46It's Wray
20:48It came off Gary Neville
20:49And somehow
20:51Schmeichel kept it out
20:55No wonder they're hugging one another
20:59To start with I think Wright expected to be flagged offside
21:02Then he realised he wasn't going to be
21:04Accelerated away
21:06Picked out Wray
21:07Hit Neville
21:08And although Schmeichel was on the deck
21:10He stuck up that big left arm
21:13And palmed it away
21:20Winterburn
21:22And Platt
21:25What a story
21:28A player largely ignored
21:30For much of the season by Arsene Wenger
21:33A man who began his career with Manchester United
21:37A player born in Chatterton
21:38In Greater Manchester
21:40May well have decided this Summit meeting
21:43In Arsenal's favour
21:51Beckham
21:53Good challenge by the captain Adams
21:55A platform for Winterburn
22:01And Arsenal know that
22:03In what little time remains
22:05Manchester United will come at them strongly
22:08There will be no better insurance policy than another goal
22:12Here's Kala
22:22Platt
22:24Platt
22:27Overmars
22:29But the sub Gary Neville in
22:32Still it's Overmars
22:42The deflection took it for a corner
22:45Off Ronnie Johnson
22:53Is he to be the match winner?
23:03Gary Neville
23:07For Nicky Butt
23:17Comes
23:18The Solskjaer
23:22And another chance
23:23Goes Beckham
23:24And there won't be many more
23:28Here's Wright
23:33Into stoppage time now
23:34And Ian Wright's done well to escape
23:37And there's Ray
23:39Should have sealed it
23:43Christopher Ray
23:49Yet to score in the Premier League
23:52Should have broken his duck
23:53From a sumptuous pass by Ian Wright
23:57Arsenal almost there
24:04And when the whistle goes
24:05There will be one enormous
24:08Highbury roar
24:10Because that's what victory over Manchester United means
24:14Season in, season out
24:16Here's Overmars
24:22Kala
24:24Knows that the whistle will go any second
24:28All Arsenal have to do is keep the ball
24:32Dixon
24:34Wright
24:35There it is
24:37Arsenal victorious
24:39It's hardly a title decider
24:41But it's certainly an indicator
24:43That we have a fascinating race on our hands
24:46Platt the match winner
24:47Arsenal victorious
24:48That victory would prove a crucial turning point
24:51In the title race
24:52As the Gunners went on to complete the League and Cup double
24:55In Arsene Wenger's first full season
24:57In charge of the North London side
25:00Alex Ferguson's Manchester United meanwhile
25:02Had to make do with the runners-up spot
25:04Despite impressive seasons from Cole and Sheringham up front
25:07The Red Devils finished an agonising one point
25:10Behind Arsenal in the final standings
25:12Thereby relinquishing their much beloved
25:14Premiership crown
25:15For the London side
25:16It was the start of a trophy laden period