inter milan 1 - 5 arsenal

HAHA!!~ YES! the sleep deprivation was well justified! poetic justice as well if u could recall andy van der meyde and his condescending goal celebration antics during the leg at highbury. guess this late late reversal of fortunes with respect to knockout stage qualification can only further add on to my sense of affinity to the gunners. 1999, the year when i officially became a gunner. i loved perennial runners-up. no one else, but the runners-up themselves can comprehend that bittersweet feeling. the lamentation on being only inches away from achieving eternity only to settle for mortality. sure most of us probably know that uraguay won the first two world cups, but do you know the runners-up respectively? in 1999, i tasted that bittersweet feeling. i was a runners-up. arsenal finished runners-up too that season when manchester united won the treble (argggh) arsenal has become more than just a team, it's THE team. my source of inspiration, that perseverance. that defiance to fate. no one was born to be champion, its self-made.
'Victoria Concordia Crescit'.
Translation: 'Victory grows out of harmony.'"