Jerry Lee? Is that the guy who played the old dude in Jurassic Park? Agreed, which is why Wenger was let go and Emery who has a great track record with young players from youth squads was hired.
Not sure why you're so excited about Emery. Seeing Wenger finally go only to get Emery in as his replacement seems like a letdown to me.
Two trophies are always better than one, however Invincible was legendary and will continue due to the parity of the EPL at the time before money got involved. Barca simply overpower squads in La Liga with money alone and that factors in a lot with the aura and accomplishment. Winning in the parity of the 2000's is simply more meaningful than Barca doing the double. Excluding Barca fans nobody will remember Barcelona winning the double 15 years from now, but people will continue to remember the Invincible season.
Like I said, it wasn't really legendary. We've seen better Premiership campaigns since then. And 12 draws? Before money got involved? Money was already involved back then.
To say we simply overpower squads in La Liga with money alone is really hypocritical considering Arsenal's squad compared to the majority of England. The Summer before the 03-04 season they spent a ton on Reyes. And as I already said, spending aside they had Henry, Vieira, Campbell (who they had to fork over a ton in wages for), Bergkamp, etc. They had World Class players compared to their opponents regardless of how much they spend to get them.
Fifteen years removed I don't just sit around and think about Arsenal's 03-04 season. I remember it in that I know it and lived it, but I generally need to be triggered to actually think about it. The only people who probably actually think about Arsenal's season are Arsenal supporters. And at the end of the day there's the context that there have been multiple better seasons, like Barça's this season, despite teams not being undefeated. Like I said, 12 draws.
Sure all of those are accurate points you bring up, but again you're not factoring in the money. Football's parity was much prevalent back when Arsenal had their undefeated season. Barca just bought a bench player for like 103.50 million pounds based off the records by Transfermarkt. 103 ****ing million pounds for a freckin bench player. Your team might have sustained more wins, but as I said above, your club's budget simply overpowers the rest of the league. You can make the case that a win in the early 2000's is more meaningful than Barca raining 4-0 beat downs to the likes of Celta, Leganes, Las Palmas, and Malaga.
So when will you be posting in the CL thread that Madrid spent about 100 million on a bench player? Anyway, the league back then wasn't easier than La Liga this season. You didn't have to face a side remotely close to Madrid and quite frankly there probably wasn't a side as good as Atleti either. Those are the respective CL and Europa League winners for the record.
I actually gotta give you guys some credit for not losing to Atletico, Real, or Valencia. Especially in that Godawful match at Camp Nou with the absurd red card and lack of one on Bale. That is quite impressive, but then losing to Levante the way you did sort of counteracts everything that was impressive on the season. Levante is a scrub club employing Moaninho tactics, you should've beat them.
LOL. So one loss which didn't prevent the club from winning a Double and where the club finished 17 points ahead of the CL winners and 14 points ahead of the Europa League winners "counteracts everything that was impressive on the season"??? Right. Well 12 draws, fewer points, fewer goals and fewer wins in a weaker league that didn't have the CL winner or the Uefa Cup winner easily puts Arsenal's undefeated season into context.
Like I said, Levante who held Madrid to two points this season and who also took points off of Valencia and Sevilla. And when you compare Levante to sides in the 03-04 season, Spurs are quite comparable. Spurs. So that's how good the competition was in the Premiership that season.
I actually didn't cheer for the Arsenal because of The Invincible, the first season I started routing for the Gunners was a Godawful team that had the likes of Djourou, Gallas, Bendtner, Arshavin, Vermaelen, Walcott, and Squillaci which eventually turned into Chamakh, Song, Santos, and Park (the legend himself). Only good players we had were a prime Rosicky, RvP, and Fabregas who was pretty much rumoured to go back to Barca every single season. You can call me a true fan who came in at probably the darkest time since that was the beginning of the end. I also didn't become a plastic fan like people choosing United because they had Ronaldo or Barca because they were a five star team in FIFA as some of you did. Furthermore, you're cutting out some of the context here, Arsenal's best players left because the club along with Wenger were too cheap to pay aging players more than a one year deal. So because of that, we did lose our Invincible side to pretty much the poachers of Europe who get money from tax payers, so they have endless streams of funds.
LOL. I've been supporting Barça for almost 20 years. When I started supporting the club they had 1 CL win. I've also lived through a lot of lean years and have actually been a paying supporter.
You lost a lot of the undefeated side because a guy like Henry was tired of the club being incapable of winning the CL.