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00:00Bridge in September 1997, they've made a name for themselves as the glamour team of the Premier League
00:06Ruud Hullert's blend of international signings and his own views on sexy football had brought a new vibrancy to Stamford Bridge and the
00:13stylish Kings Road area
00:15Chelsea were the second highest scorers in the Premier League with 17 goals
00:19Once again Hullert rotated his squad and started with Gianfranco Zola and Gianluca Vialli
00:25Arsenal fans were pleased to welcome back Tony Adams for his first league appearance of the season
00:30Nicola Anelka dropped to the bench as Dennis Bergkamp partnered Ian Wright up front. Arsenal were still unbeaten in the league
00:38It was fourth against fifth in one of the most attractive fixtures in the Premier League calendar. Your match commentator is John Champion
00:48This London derby perhaps represents the biggest threat so far to Arsenal's unbeaten opening to the Premier League season
00:55Chelsea themselves in decent form. They've won their last four games scoring 15 goals in the process
01:05Six of them at Barnsley four against Southampton
01:11Arsenal represent a considerable step up in class today
01:18Bright autumnal sunshine in West London
01:21And
01:24Stamford Bridge as full as it can be at the moment with the ongoing building work
01:29Just over 31,000 allowed inside
01:32Ruud Hullert looking for some sexy football from his team today
01:42Reverse challenge on Parler
01:46See the rapidly evolving shape of Stamford Bridge
01:51The three sides now complete that's lovely from Bergkamp
01:56And still there is Bergkamp plucked out of the air by his countryman Ed Dehoey
02:06Left Leboeuf absolutely nowhere and then shrugged off Lesautre
02:11So
02:32Dennis Wise
02:36Now Petrescu
02:41Oh
02:43Well, he set himself beautifully for it
02:49His technique is usually beyond criticism just got underneath at that time
03:05Chelsea the second highest scorers in the English Premier League so far this season with 17
03:12Arsenal managed 13 with a couple of hat-tricks along the way Bergkamp at Leicester
03:18Including that memorable goal, which will surely be a contender for the goal of the season
03:24And then Ian Wright against Bolton at Highbury
03:30Here's Parler
03:34Vieira
03:36Leboeuf
03:52Now Viali
03:54Still in the yard on Adams
03:57Comes to play that's some block by Stiefvold
04:01Stiefvold maybe approaching his 35th birthday, but he moved swiftly enough there
04:12Really doughty competitor bold
04:17Wise for Zola
04:20There's a lot of curl on that
04:26Viali's ball in
04:28The chest of Zola
04:31How about that for a piece of proactive defending?
04:37Bergkamp, there's Lesautre, Di Matteo
04:43Now Zola with Viali for company
04:50Just too strong for Zola to get the return
04:55It's a thrilling opening to this game
04:58Great cut and thrust to it
05:00And marginally offside
05:03Dennis Bergkamp will have to come back
05:10A England coach, of course a former Chelsea manager on the right-hand side along with West Ham's Harry Redknapp
05:20Shades for the England man
05:22The hand suffices
05:24for the club manager
05:26Staring into fierce sunshine today
05:34Parler
05:38Now needs to cut it back and does so
05:42And Marc Overmars went for power and lost out on the accuracy front
05:50Worrying how easily Lesautre sold himself
05:56Oh
05:58Did he just lift his head as he struck it
06:03Wise
06:07That's Paul Hughes
06:14Wise was caught late
06:16So
06:33Zola to hit it
06:36Even by his standards, that's pretty ambitious
06:41David Seaman will be quite happy if every effort comes at him from 35 yards out
06:46It's Bergkamp
06:49Knew that the last touch came off Graham Lesautre
06:53It is an Arsenal corner
07:04Manu Paty will take it
07:09Zola had a chance of a header. There's Ian Wright
07:13Dennis Wise was in the way
07:25Dubre
07:29Bergkamp
07:32Parler, that was a foul
07:34By Le Berf on Bergkamp
07:37After the ball had departed the scene
07:40And McGallagher
07:42He usually allows a
07:44Fair amount of leeway to players before issuing cards
07:47Has decided that that is bookable
07:57Paty
07:59Nice height for Dehoey
08:03Hansen-Benger completes a year in charge of Arsenal. This comes as a result of a
08:07Complete a year in charge of Arsenal this coming week
08:15Paty
08:17Bergkamp
08:19Seems to be the heart of most of Arsenal's best moments and here's Overmars
08:26Who went down under the challenge of Paul Hughes
08:31Big task for the 21 year old getting into company like this locally born in Hammersmith, Hughes
08:37And
08:41There was some holding of the arm and that's why Arsenal are so upset
08:49Petrescu
08:53Here's Viali
08:58Chelsea corner
09:04Viali's in a hurry to get the ball across there
09:08Short to Wise
09:13On side Denis Wise and there's Dewberry and it's turned in by Poyet
09:24The Uruguayans first goal at Stamford Bridge
09:26Now did Dewberry really mean to set him up or was it an effort on goal?
09:40We'll give him the benefit of the doubt
09:45Five minutes before the break Chelsea strike first
09:57Vieira
10:00Bergkamp
10:03Arsenal have probably played marginally the better football prior to the goal
10:08But they should have had a penalty when Overmars appeared to be tugged back
10:12Here is the dutchman
10:14There's Bergkamp
10:16and Dehoey
10:17Used all his six foot six inch frame
10:20Tallest goalkeeper ever to play for Chelsea
10:22Dehoey
10:26And he just managed to prevent it from crossing the line
10:30And I mean just
10:36Bold header
10:38And it was a bold header
10:42Dixon
10:45Parler
10:50Ian Wright
10:53Petit
11:00Arsenal's unbeaten record under threat stands at six games three wins three draws so far
11:12And away from home they've won at Southampton drawn at Leeds drawn at Leicester here they trail
11:20Vieira
11:23Nicholas and Wright let's come back fortuitously to Vieira. There's Wright. Here's Bergkamp and that's 1-1
11:38And Chelsea's lead lasted only five minutes
11:45Beautifully conceived
11:48Push and header from Wright into the path of Bergkamp who timed his run
11:54Beneath the advancing keeper and these teams are going to go in level
12:01Which is probably fair
12:11Wise
12:18Corrette
12:20Liverpool
12:25Le Cir
12:29It's an awful lot of stoppage time
12:33Both sides will take half time now
12:38Paul Hughes for Chelsea
12:42Petrescu
12:44It's an arsenal throw
12:55It is 1-1 at halftime
12:57It took 40 minutes for a goal to arrive and when it did it was provided by the big Uruguayan Gustavo Poiet
13:05But the advantage lasted only a matter of five minutes before Dennis Bergkamp was beautifully teed up by Ian Wright
13:11To sweep in the equalizing goal. It's just as tight as we'd expected coming into this game
13:16It's Chelsea 1 Arsenal 1 at halftime at the bridge
13:24Change
13:25by Chelsea
13:27Off goes the Romanian Petrescu and on in his place
13:30a player with more attacking instincts 20 year old Mark Nicholls
13:34from nearby Hillingdon
13:36prolific goal scorer in Chelsea's youth team
13:42Both these sides facing big tasks in the coming week. Chelsea go to Old Trafford on Wednesday night
13:50Arsenal face another derby on Wednesday when West Ham
13:54arrive at Highbury
13:57Busy start to the season for both these clubs. Here's Zola
14:08Wise
14:11Seaman carried and then collected as Viali arrived
14:23Dennis Wise gets his share
14:32Winterburn
14:34So
14:39Right touch
14:54Third last season in Arsene Wenger's first year in charge
14:58Yeah
15:00Chelsea finished sixth
15:03Very hopeful of improving on that
15:17Bergkamp
15:23It's a good chance
15:28It's high above his marker
15:36Here's Overmars probably the quickest player on the pitch
15:43Forget the probably
15:45Here's Parler
15:48Vieira to Petit
15:52There's Bergkamp
15:54Well, you need to be a master of your craft to strike a dropping ball on the volley like that and he extended to Hoey
16:09Mark Hughes tangling with Petit. Here's Wise. Couldn't hook up with Nicholls
16:18His arrival should liven things up a bit
16:24So
16:38Paul Hughes to Hughes on the pitch now for Chelsea
16:47Opposite ends of the country opposites ends of the age scale too
16:54Yeah
16:58Winterburn
17:04Bergkamp with the instant control. There's Petit
17:08It's a fine block by LeBoeuf
17:10And then a slice by Dewberry
17:13And it comes for Bergkamp
17:16So
17:23Dewberry and LeBoeuf got into a horrible muddle beneath the high ball
17:29The initial slice by Dewberry set up the situation that neither dealt with
17:34Bergkamp sweeps home his 37th goal in only 82 appearances for Arsenal
17:40So
17:44He is the legacy left by former manager Bruce Riog, and aren't they grateful
17:59Petit
18:04Overmars. One back to Chelsea by Paul Hughes
18:11Nicholls
18:17Usually quite a physical confrontation this game
18:22Here's Mark Hughes one of the reasons why and he set up Zola
18:29Two goals in 90 seconds
18:34Bergkamp for Arsenal, Zola for Chelsea
18:37Who immediately goes across and issues thanks to the newly arrived substitute Mark Hughes for setting him up
18:48The Italians first goal of the season
18:53And now it's game on
18:59Content with third place last season looking to go at least one if not two places better this
19:07Mark Hughes
19:11Wise. Flo couldn't do anything with it. Wise was caught off the ball by Vieira as he played the pass
19:24Bergkamp is on a hat-trick
19:27And is chopped down
19:29by Franck Lebeuf
19:32Who's already been booked and Chelsea will be reduced to 10 men
19:37For the remaining 15 minutes
19:44Dermot Gallagher had little option
19:52Bergkamp made the ball past Lebeuf and was brought tumbling to earth
19:58Franck Lebeuf
20:01Makes an early exit
20:07Oh
20:10It's Bergkamp
20:13Sure, the wall was back the requisite 10 yards
20:20Winterburn
20:25Through the middle was over Mars
20:28Can Arsenal exploit their one-man advantage
20:36Yes
20:40Bergkamp who was being held
20:45This isn't given by Dermot Gallagher
20:48He's not had many awkward calls to make sending off was pretty straightforward
20:56Bergkamp
21:00And Arsenal will take the corner from that
21:07That's rather new to Chelsea as an attacking force one man down
21:12And also leaves them vulnerable at the back particularly in the air where Lebeuf is so useful to them
21:23Vieira got a flick comes to over Mars
21:26Well, if Steve Boulder got a touch on that
21:29Then Arsenal might well have been back in front
21:33No question it was a shot from over Mars, but he scuffed it
21:37Make the clean contact he was looking for
21:40And bold tried and missed
21:46Off comes ray parla and on for only his third appearance as a substitute is the portuguese luis balmorte
21:58Trying to add something to the mix that would help to win the game
22:07Oh
22:23Who hit it
22:30A match-winning salvo from a long-serving gunner
22:37So
22:39In the very last minute of the game
22:46No way would any goalkeeper on earth have got close to that
22:50He averages a goal a season nigel winterburn
22:54And here's his contender for goal of the season
23:02What a strike here's zola
23:07Oh
23:09Now can chelsea possibly hope to come back from that time is very much against them. It's a matter of seconds remaining
23:16They're a player down zola just wants to get on with it
23:22Toya set himself with a header ball never arrived. Here's dennis wise
23:30That may be chelsea's final opportunity
23:37It's a crushing blow and worth another look
23:43Power pace a little bit of swerve
23:48That's what it means to the normally reserved arsenal manager
23:59Days such as this with late decisive interventions
24:03It makes such a difference to a title race
24:06When the final reckoning comes
24:10There's the whistle
24:12And arsenal have won at the home of one of their closest rivals
24:18By three goals to two thanks to a stunning goal
24:22by nigel winterburn
24:25It was a long way down the bookies lists to score the decisive goal
24:31But he intervened when others around were dallying
24:36Sallied forth struck a dream of a shot
24:39And has won this game for arsenal who move ahead of chelsea in the premier league table
24:45quite a contest this
24:47chelsea two
24:49arsenal three
24:51Well chelsea may have been fast becoming the glamour boys of the premier league
24:55But arsenal were playing some pretty attractive football themselves
24:58Nigel winterburn's last gas winner dented some of the optimism at stanford bridge
25:03But at highbury all was looking rosy
25:05This was one of the crucial victories that delivered arsene wenger his first premier league title as they gradually reeled in a 12-point
25:13manchester united lead after christmas
25:16Under rude hullett chelsea were upwardly mobile and they eventually finished the season