We have paused the day by day account of games played on this day, because so few Arsenal games were played in June. But instead, we are taking a look at a few games against our main rivals across the years.
Today it is Manchester City
Arsenal v Man City 1 September 1991
Beating Man City 5-0 28 October 2000
Watch Arsenal beat Man City 5-1 away on this day: 22 February 2003:
Knocking in three against Man City away 24 October 2010
2012: Liverpool 1 Arsenal 2
2007: Nine goals!
October 2019:
Nasri knocks two past Fulham – watch the video on this day (2010)
4-1 in the FA Cup
This season we are running an “On this day” series focussing on videos of matches played by Arsenal on this day of the year. However Arsenal have rarely played in June and when they have it has been in ancient times so instead we are looking at Arsenal club by club in terms of videos.
Here are a few more
In recent months we have been publishing a series of articles each highlighting the video of a particular Arsenal match from that day in history.
But we now hit a problem for Arsenal have rarely played games in late May or in any part of June. It is true that from time to time Arsenal have played end of season tours overseas, but by the 1970s the habit of playing after the season ended faded out, and instead was replaced by games that preceded the start of the new season, giving the manager the chance to try out new formations and new tactics.
So we don’t have any more videos until 28 June, but even then until mid-July the number of videos available is small.
Therefore I thought I might fill in by working through some of our opponents in order and offering a video or two along the way, club by club. We have already looked at Aston Villa, Brighton and Burnley, so now we move on alphabetically to Crystal Palace.
So here are a couple you might enjoy…
Beating Crystal Palace 3-0 in the mud
https://www.premierleague.com/video/single/625218
Beating Palace 2-0 in February 2014
There is only one Arsenal video I can find for this day, so that is what is presented through the link above. But it is a defeat – quite a bad defeat in fact. It is a defeat by 4-1 to Chelsea in the Europa League final.
But until Arsenal can fit in another game on 29 May, it is all we have.
As far as I can tell Arsenal have only ever played two matches on 28 May – both of them in Scandinavia and both played before the second world war. Which means that video coverage of the matches is somewhat lacking.
So as we have been doing on other days when there is no video available of an Arsenal match for that day, we are looking back at past games against other clubs.
Last time it was against Brighton. This time it is against Burnley