","12 December: One of the days when we played two matches at once","Arsenal come from behind a record fourth time in a row to complete win over Newcastle","Wenger's record-busters two steps from heaven","Request reveals 170,000 Arsenal fans did not show up at Emirates Stadium last season","Gunners to rake in the riches after Spanish survival","Where does Arsenal's win in Dortmund rank among their best European wins? Fortunately, the Gunners ended that losing run by beating Wigan Athletic on penalties. 2. The list encompasses the honours won by Arsenal at national, regional, county and friendly level, records set by the club, their managers and their players. Believe it or not, winning the FA Community Shield has had a glorified influence on the top 4 chances of the side.Since 2000, only three teams have failed to make the top four after winning the season’s curtain raiser, with United appearing twice. 13. It was also the first time the BBC ever paid for the rights to broadcast a match.Three years earlier, the Gunners disappointingly lost their first final, 1-0 against Cardiff City. Arsenal completed their double winning season and were cheered off the pitch by both sets of fans.Arsenal’s first match at Wembley against Manchester United contained even more late drama. Arsenal Football Club is a professional football club based in Islington, London, England, that plays in the Premier League, the top flight of English football.The club has won 13 league titles (including one unbeaten title), a record 14 FA Cups, two League Cups, 16 FA Community Shields, the League Centenary Trophy, one European Cup Winners' Cup, and one Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. So it proved, as Cliff Bastin scored again along with David Jack, but the Gunners were held to a 2-2 draw, forcing a replay away from home.The replay wasn’t much more straight-forward, and it took a penalty from Alf Baker to separate the two sides, as Arsenal eventually triumphed 1-0.Now in February, Herbert Chapman’s side prepared for their fifth round match against recently promoted Middlesbrough. the.Not bad for a club that supposedly has an empty trophy cabinet, eh?For the record, Tottenham have 17 which drops to 13 if you remove the League Cup. On 4 February 2017, Chelsea beat Arsenal 3–1. However, for Arsenal, it's turned into a bit of a curse.The Gunners have been on a steady decline for a good (or bad) few years now, and they have seen plenty of their top stars jump ship to go and win trophies elsewhere, all while Arsenal have been restricted to the odd FA Cup.Arsenal fans don't really like talking about it, but there's no denying that there have been a whole lot of former players who have gone on to shine elsewhere.The start of this exodus trend was probably Ashley Cole's move to.Cole was perhaps the best left-back in the world for a good few years after leaving Arsenal, which is why they should have just handed him a better contract.Arsenal didn't see much in Lassana Diarra when they sold him to Portsmouth after just five months in 2008.He won the FA Cup with Pompey before picking up trophies for both,Mathieu Flamini never really managed to hold down a regular place in the team at Arsenal and eventually walked away for free in the summer of 2008, with,He spent a few years as a rotation option at San Siro but became a core part of the team who won the,During his three years with Arsenal, Belarusian winger Aliaksandr Hleb never managed better than a third-placed finish in the.He barely even played for La Blaugrana but was still part of the treble-winning side in his first season. Swansea secured the first major trophy in their 101-year history as they thrashed League Two side Bradford City 5-0 in the League Cup final at Wembley in February 2013, while Birmingham’s League Cup success in the 2010/11 season proved to be a bittersweet experience, as they suffered relegation to the Championship come May.