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Arsène Wenger did an embarrassing-dad dance with his team of whippersnappers for Arsenal's second goal in the crushing of Villarreal. He talks their language, you see. Imagine his grin of vindication if a side built entirely in his image and largely on his training ground can rock the house at the Champions League final in Rome.

Wenger has defended his young players so robustly that he must have been tempted to hand out answer-cards to those who accused him of extremism. The charge was that Arsenal had turned from the "Invincibles" to doomed youth in pursuit of endless beauty. Where were the gladiators, the household names, we asked?

The news from the debating salon is that Arsenal are through to a European semi-final against Manchester United, face Chelsea on Saturday in the last four of the FA Cup and now look impregnable in the Premier League's fourth Champions League spot. This has been a season to make fools of the dogmatic. Form and fortune have swung back and forth for all the top clubs. Ars enal's revival is arguably the biggest news. Even without Manuel Almunia in goal and three of the first-choice back four, Wenger's men drew on the inspiration provided by Theo Walcott's opening goal to run three past Villarreal.

Former Arsenal players retain a special affection for life under Wenger, as Robert Pires demonstrated by hugging Gunnersaurus, the eight-foot furry dinosaur who greets the squads off the bus (the Arsenal team high-five him, but Wenger confines himself to a handshake). Pires' presence in the Villarreal starting line-up also cast a light on the boundless youth of the current north London crop.

Here were the young men, the weight on their shoulders. Arsenal dominated this quarter-final second leg with only one player over 30, nine who were 25 or under and six who were 23 or less.

The great Wenger youth project has advanced breathlessly since Pires was withdrawn early in the 2006 Champions League final in response to Jens Lehmann's dismissal. Only three of last night's starting XI played and lost in Paris against Barcelona. Of those, only Kolo Touré, at 28, can claim veteran status. The others were Cesc Fàbregas, 21, and Emmanuel Eboué, who seems to have been around an eternity but is still only 25.

Wenger's near-prejudice against proven, fully mature products of other clubs has led him through a nettle patch of pundit put-downs and fan displeasure. His faith in youth is multi-dimensional. Not only does he prefer to preach the "Arsenal Way" at London Colney but he appears to believe that only youthful legs have the locomotion to play such a high-speed one- and two-touch passing game.

Few move quicker than Walcott. It was the 20-year-old who wears Thierry Henry's old number 14 who struck the first blow for precocity, racing on to a Fàbregas flick to loft the ball over Diego Lopez. This was one of those nights when you wondered how the jury ever doubted Walcott's potential to thrive at this level, because his speed and directness are now supported by a geometrical awareness and a sense of when and how to release the ball.

Supporters of the endangered breed, the homegrown English footballer, will love the irony of Wenger finding his opening goalscorer not in a French academy but at Southampton. Walcott is their finest legacy: a straight-line sprinter, converted by months of coaching, into the embodiment of Wenger's higher purpose.

Where Walcott's callowness sometimes shows is after a burst of brilliance. It is as if that act of being brilliant temporarily exhausts his concentration. What follows is often less precise. At least he has a birth certificate to blame. Less well armed with mitigation is Emmanuel Adebayor, who scored a show-stopper in the first leg in Spain but was all hesitation and tangled legs in the first half here. But Adebayor has a useful habit of redeeming himself and, when Villarreal's Gonzalo Rodríguez ignored him in the penalty area, Arsenal's front-line striker ghosted left and curled in his team's second before a Robin van Persie penalty closed the deal.

Our error, Wenger would say, is to mistake recent birthdates for inexperience: an easy mistake to make while scanning the 2006 Champions League final line-up, which included Sol Campbell, Gilberto Silva, Pires, Freddie Ljungberg, Henry and Ashley Cole, with Dennis Bergkamp on the bench. Paris was to be their final symphony. When they failed, the team broke up as Wenger began to regard the transfer market with acute distrust and the club went all out on gilded youth.

Children of the 1980s largely, this team nevertheless wears a battle-hardened look. Fàbregas has made 41 Champions League appearances. Walcott, at 20, was punching the clock in Europe for the 19th time. Only the goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski (aged 23, two Champions League outings) and the English-born left-back, Kieran Gibbs (19 and 1) were real novices on this stage.

Exultant at the finish, Arsenal's fans stayed behind to serenade Pires off the pitch. They still love the Invincibles here. Now they are coming to adore their successors, too. Wenger's faith is assuming a righteous glow.
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Excellent Article depicting Arsene Wengers dream, coming to reality

[uggla]

What took yeah

[Hukido]

lol well its here finally

Epic arsene wenger dance at the villareal game, a must watch

YouTube - Arsene Wenger Dance moves(Funny)

even van persie and silvestre joined in last night

[Ben2710]

Nice to see you cotneys finally got the idea of a thread

All i can say here not to cause argument is your going down in the CL.

[Hukido]

lol dream on benny boy

Im gunna book my tickets for the second leg at the emirates soon, when they go on sale on the 29th

im going to sit by the corner flag so I can harass giggs lol

[Ben2710]

lol dream on benny boy

Im booking my tickets for the home game at the emirates tomorrow

Ive already applied for mine lol but not at the Emirates at the theater of dreams of course

[Hukido]

Ive already applied for mine lol but not at the Emirates at the theater of dreams of course

I registered today should take 7 days to get my membership card for this season

but I hope my membership clears before the 29th, other wise they are going to charge me an extra £10 plus the tickets

[Ben2710]

How much are tickets at Arsenal anyway? compared to us who get ripped off by greedy Americans

[Hukido]

How much are tickets at Arsenal anyway? compared to us who get ripped off by greedy Americans

Cheapest tickets at the emirates is £32, for that you can sit behind the goal or down by the corner flags, I wanna sit behind the goal with the Ultras

what about old trafford?

[Ben2710]

Cheapest tickets at the emirates is £32, for that you can sit behind the goal or down by the corner flags, I wanna sit behind the goal with the Ultras

what about old trafford?

well i get them for £10 because of Junior But cheapest Adults are £35.

It's the ST we get ripped off by, making us by cup games.

[Hukido]

well i get them for £10 because of Junior But cheapest Adults are £35.

It's the ST we get ripped off by, making us by cup games.

loooooool

Yeah Junior members get it for nothing, So arsenal with a new stadium is cheaper than old trafford, strange...

[I.LuV.ManUTd!]

I registered for CL tickets as well, still waiting to find out if I have any access to Wembley on Sunday

[Hukido]

I registered for CL tickets as well, still waiting to find out if I have any access to Wembley on Sunday

Sucks for arsenal supporter as all the wembley tickets got prioritized for season ticket holders only, the FA only gave 25 thousand tickets to Arsenal, and 25 thousand to chelsea out of a 80 thousand seater stadium

[Hukido]

Away Kit 2009/2010



Third Kit 2009/2010



I think the away kit is awesome!

What do you guys think?

[TheKingATC]

Away Kit 2009/2010



Third Kit 2009/2010



I think the away kit is awesome!

What do you guys think?

The green one is very beautiful =)

[Hukido]

The green one is very beautiful =)

I think its horrible lol why cant they have simple colors ?

[yidstar]

Thats is awful even for arsenals standard! lol.

The green is disgusting and the white looks revolting.

[coxie]

rubbish thread

*locked*

only joking, haha sorry hukido, i love that wenger video

and ben what the hell is a cotney? is it like a cockney but different? is it a baby cockney that sleeps in a cot hense cotney? haha you silly manc ben

i notice the spurs thread was the 1st of its kind this season and now other teams are trying to jump on our success.

[Hukido]

rubbish thread

*locked*

only joking, haha sorry hukido, i love that wenger video

and ben what the hell is a cotney? is it like a cockney but different? is it a baby cockney that sleeps in a cot hense cotney? haha you silly manc ben

i notice the spurs thread was the 1st of its kind this season and now other teams are trying to jump on our success.

Success lol lets not get ahead of ourselves coxie