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Alex Mott·29 octobre 2024
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Alex Mott·29 octobre 2024
It’s exactly 16 years since one of the greatest Premier League games ever played.
The north London derby very rarely disappoints but on this day in 2008, it went to another stratosphere.
Harry Redknapp had been in the Spurs job for just three days, having replaced Juande Ramos at White Hart Lane with the club bottom of the Premier League.
Things were stacked against Spurs then as they travelled to Arsenal in his very first game and it looked like an uphill battle midway through the second half as Arsenal went into a commanding 4-2 lead at the newly-built Emirates.
Redknapp’s side pulled a goal back on 89 minutes however as Jermaine Jenas’s deflected effort beat Manuel Almunia all ends up.
And then with virtually the last kick of the match, the Spanish shot-stopper parried Luka Modrić’s shot into the path of Aaron Lennon who poked home.
Spurs had come back to draw 4-4 in one of the most dramatic games English football has ever seen and was a portent of things to come under Redknapp’s dramatic stewardship.