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Watching it back Arsenal had more than enough chances to walk away with 3 points here. Gallas' meltdown remains an absurd moment and says more about him as a leader

as an arsenal fan, Alex McLeish's post match interview was first class...showed respect, class and kind of even empathized with how the result on the day panned out for Arsenal.

This is the game when Arsenal's (unfortunately) banter era started

You know what? Nothing but sympathy for Gallas. Adebayor didn't square the ball to his teammate for an open goal, Clichy lost concentration in exactly the same way as the week before, and then of course Mike Dean with an absolute host of shockingly poor decisions. Weak mentality from a lot of these players and an absolutely disgraceful refereeing performance, he had every right to be furious. This is a guy who was part of the best ever defence in Premier League history and less than two years prior was playing for the World Cup finalists. He expected more and led by example, scoring some vital goals at huge moments during the season. A lot of these players let him down, while witnessing his teammate get his leg snapped in two and a week after his close friend lost his brother. He had every right to be distressed.

Seeing how broken Arsene looked at the end, he knew the title was done after this game. Gallas wears his heart on his sleeve but that was completely the wrong reaction to a young player in Clichy.

"This is their 44th game this season, more than any club in Europe" not often mentioned but probably another reason why it all fell apart. Utd played 4 games less by this point.

"You only have to kill a person one time"... Arsene Wenger was complex simplicity.

This infamous game which started the banter era has a lot of talking point: 1. The weak mentality of players like Adebayor who couldn't swallow his pride to let Bendtner score. Gallas for his shocking meltdown in front of everyone. True captains like Maldini, Puyol, Ramos, Gerrard etc. would never behave like that in public. 2. Wenger's stubbornness to keep trusting below par players such as Senderos, Denilson, Hoyte etc. You can't win a league with such players in your squad. 3. Wenger's senseless decision to not only sign a player who threatened to score own goals if he wasn't transferred, but also exchange the PL's best ever LB for him. AW even made him captain and gave him Bergkamp's jersey for good measure. Not surprising that snakes like Gallas, Adebayor etc. joined Spurs later. 4. Gallas completely forgot that it's a team sport and being the captain, you've to show solidarity with your players despite the braindead mistake from Clichy. As if Gallas has never made an error in his entire career. 5. The refs for their horrible decisions which still continue to this day. It's because of such refs that opponents started thinking its OK to bully Arsenal players. Not surprising that everything went downhill from this match onwards.

I'm going to leave a like but can't bring myself to watch this game again. The pain is still so raw all these years later. This was the game where we lost the league and as a whole we have not been the same as a club since that season. After that season we stopped believing and other clubs stopped fearing us.

This game is remembered for two things: Eduardo's injury (which effectively killed off Arsenal's strong title hopes) William Gallas meltdown (which was very unprofessional)

Martin Taylor is a family man with a heart of gold. He made an error with that challenge and will be remembered for all wrong things. KRO

I was enjoying all the games until this moment but its because I know what happened to the title challenge after this . Thanks for the upload as always

I was at this game 13 years ago (now 34 years old), I still remember it vividly. As a Birmingham fan, i remember everyone being shocked at the red card , no-one realised how bad the challenge was because it was in centre of the pitch. It just looked a standard mistimed challenge and everyone felt the ref ruined the game. It was only until we saw Eduardo go off the pitch on oxygen that we realised something was wrong. I remember Walcott coming on and ripping us to shreds with his pace. I remember how out of the blue the penalty was. I actually think Clichy just gets the ball from Parnaby but I certainly wasn't complaining. I wonder if Gallas has ever forgiven Clichy for that clanger, his reaction and Muamba's reaction to the panalty is priceless. The Gallas meltdown is easily the most insanely unprofessional thing i've ever seen at a live game, I couldn't believe my eyes. After the game I lost a lot of respect for Wenger for inciting a lot of unecessary hatred towards Martin Taylor, every Birmingham fan knows that Taylor was 'gentle giant', hence his nickname "Tiny", he'd only ever received 1 red card in his career up to that point and he was in his late 20's for this game. It was a genuine accident from a slow, cumbersome, clumsy defender, nothing more than that but the disgraceful witch hunt instigated by Wenger, which lead to Taylor getting death threats as far as Croatia, he didn't deserve that.

As a Birmingham fan I have always loved and admired Arsenal and Wenger was a totally brilliant manager. Birmingham are a team that have never lived up to the potential. The fan base back in the late 60's through 70's and even 80's was amazing. This is a team that had we found the right buyer could have been right up there. Alas all we found for owners were trash and to this very day that remains. I can recall some great moments for us vs Arsenal. A Barry Bridges double in a cup replay at Arsenal we won 2-1 as massive underdogs. The League Cup final win but those moments have been few and far between. Contrast with that the catalogue of brilliant players that have played for Arsenal. The trophies won, the magnificent days and nights their fans have shared. It is not easy being a fan of just another team and its got even worse over the years I have watched the game. Fans of the top teams need sometimes to be reminded of just how lucky they are for other 80 odd teams in the Football league we can only dream of what is routine for the top clubs on a weekly basis. Back to Arsenal. Some of my all time favourite players played for you guys. Ian Wright, Tony Adams, Thierry Henry, and my personal favourite of all time Dennis Bergkamp. I could go on and on. As for this game, yes the tackle was horrific but in truth Arsenal should have won by a bucket load. Birmingham the vastly Inferior team, 10 men for pretty much all of the game. Yes the decisions were marginal that led to Birmingham's goals but that in itself was not enough of an excuse. The Minnows vs the Giants is what always brings out some of the best of English Football. Sadly for the most part even those days are gone.

I do not understand why everyone is saying soft penalty or blaming Gallas for being upset. It was a brain dead moment from Gael Clichy that cost us the 3 points. All he had to do was clear the fucking ball

Match of the day showed a leg breaker on BBC, times have changed

It was a small mercy that it happened in Birmingham. Selly Oak hospital had one of the finest trauma units in the world

The curse on arsenal began on that day

The game that cost us the league that season

I remember watching this game as a 7 year old. I found the Eduardo injury traumatizing

Pathetic gallas ,grown man near to tears because he didn’t get his own way ,the sheer arrogance Kro

After that Eduardo was never the same again...

Games like this is why we shouldn't have sold Ashley Cole. Cole wouldn't have let us down in such a crucial part of the season like Clichy had.

Wenger - "any player that tackles one of our players should be banned for life" Wenger " Our player never fouled , that was never a penalty " Commentator to Wenger " What about that bad foul your player committed " Wenger reply " I never saw it" Commentator to Wenger "what about that penalty the opposition should have had " Wenger reply "I never saw it "

KRO. I was there and we didn’t know how bad it was initially. Not condoning any bad tackle but Arsenal have dished it out in the past too.

Is this the game Gallas sat on the pitch alone. I understand his pain Adebayor should have squared to Bendtner Infront of an empty goal. That was the turning point

3 years later Birmingham beat arsenal in the carling cup final!wenger was a sore loser that day too.

Still a brutal game to watch. It was clumsy from Taylor, but it was a shocker going studs up like that, and you just run the risk of a break against a side that played to feet. Combined with us bottling the chances we had, and the dodgy decisions, this was the day we shot an albatross over the Emirates.

The hardest game to watch as an arsenal fan

Wow the memories i was about 10 and first time i witnessed a leg break 😢

this game is so sad, I have felt the same despair as when I watched it live Will never watch it again

I was in the Tilton that day, I distinctly remember being aggrieved that it was a foul at all in the ground. I still maintain till this day it was a yellow card by the standard of the time, but the referee himself said he wasn’t going to give a card until he saw his leg broken. Wenger (understandably) took it too far saying he should never play again when it was a clear case of being a clumsy tackle from a tame af guy.

1-0 James McFadden (28 min) 1-1 Theo Walcott (49 min) 1-2 Theo Walcott (55 min) 2-2 James McFadden (90+5 min (PK))

I remember that mad moment it absolutely killed eduardos career he was really looking good as well for arsenal such a shame it messed me up seeing his foot hanging off his leg I remember crying I was like 13 at the time it was proper nasty if you watched it live

the day the banter started 😒

Coincidência ou não a partir dai o arsenal perdeu o campeonato apos a lesão do Eduardo da Silva.

3/4yrs earlier dint Keown deliberately assault Van Nistleroy 100×worse than Taylor's mistimed tackle, kept mouth shut then dint ya Wenger 🙀🙀

ADEBAYORRR YOU SHOULD HAVE PASSED MANNNN FUCKK MY LIFE THIS SEASON BRINGS MORE HEARTBREAK

Fuck... here it is. Seriously, before even pressing play on this video, I remember everything about this match so clearly. Not just the Eduardo injury and the Gallas meltdown, but all the other crap that happened during this game. Clichy having a brain-fart, then giving away a penalty (that wasn't even a penalty), Adebayor not squaring to Bendtner, the pretty questionable award of their free-kick for the first goal, the most obvious shirt pull in the penalty area you're ever likely to see on Adebayor somehow not given. It's little wonder that this was the match where we started to unravel this season. One of our worst days I can think of since following the club.

I was at the game, not far from where the injury happened. There was no malicious intent at all, Eduardo was jsut way too quick for Taylor. Wengers comments were disgusting regarding Taylor, and I hope he has finally retracted them. He tried his best to ruin the career of an honest professional. Was great to finally get our revenge against him wining the Carling Cup in 2011 🙂

For the people upset at Wenger in the comments, from Taylor's wiki: "In his post-match interview, Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger called for a life ban for Taylor,[25] but retracted his remarks later that day, admitting they had been excessive and made in the heat of the moment."

Adebayor shouldn't have been an Arsenal player. He did score goals but needed 10 chances to score 1.

The day we lost the League 😢😢 The moment Eduardo gone out of the season :(( we knew we bottle

Clichy had too many brain fart moments. He messed up in the game against City before that which led to a goal and could've cost us points. I guess that might explain why Gallas was so pissed at him

8:21 this moment killed our season y did you cut your hair

The game that finished arsenals title hopes

Mike Dean was practically marking Fabregas at times

Gallas knew what Will happen after this horror match

This was horrific 😲😲😲😲 I mean the injury

Wenger's comments were disgraceful. Saying that Matty Taylor should never play football was absolutely abhorrent. He was late and it was unfortunate. Wenger would've had him arrested for ABH ffs.

They all should’ve just walked off after Eduardo was assaulted on national television. Birmingham are probably the most disgusting team/city in England, followed closely by Stoke Millwall and Leeds, don’t really understand how these clubs are allowed to continue operating tbh

WE SHOULD HAVE WON THE LEAGUE THAY YEAR FFS MANNNNNN THIS HURTSSD MAN

You wouldn't the likes of vieira or roy keane behaving like that they where true captains

What's wrong was with Clichy at 10:14mins

Where is lehmann

being a birmingham fan and hating arsenal is a blessing

Blues doing blues stuff

Taylor was out of order... taking out starboy edurado... thanks to him for fcuking up arsenal charge to the title back then 😡🤬. Long live the Arsenal.... past.. present .. and future 👊🏾🤛🏾

Arsene was so funny

Wtf was Clichy doing?

Should have had a penalty fist few minutes and goalkeeper sent off

Absolute joke of a game in so many ways. Fiery Wenger interview was absolutely spot on too.

Wenger's comments came out of anger but were way over the top and thankfully he retracted what he said soon after. Taylor was always a good clean player and even Bendtner who'd spent the previous season with us on loan from Arsenal defended Taylor's personality and record too. It was a terrible error but I'm sure, not malicious. As for the match, it was a great result for the Blues after going down to ten men early on. Blues always had a great relationship with Arsenal during that period, with Larsson in that squad coming from Arsenal as well as Fabrice Muamba, and Bendtner the previous season, and Johan Djourou. The only real let down was when Hleb joined us two or three seasons later.

Jonathan Pearce can’t stand his voice thank god he’s relegated to women’s football

8:30 we lost the prem

In football many injuries happen but opposing managers will always scream murder when against them , it was a accident and Arsenal have also committed tough tackles . Birmningham had 10 men V 11 and they still struggled against a newish premier team , I like Wenger as a manager but he was wrong here , I think Arsenal are a overrated team nowadays and made many mistakes since getting rid of Wenger , Top 10 until you get new ownership or fiances change . Am I right in saying they beat you in a cup ,this is definitely your bogey team .

Yea but come on 10 v 11 SHOWS how crap Arsenal was.

Pure accident ,Taylor wasn't a dirty player at all

Arsenal still havnt recovered since this game IMO

ZULU. There’s only one Martin Taylor a Blues legend

Wenger talking out of his arse again

Dirty Blues..as always

worst thing about it is that Taylor was surprised to get sent off and then complained to the ref... wtf

I remember watching MotD the following week and an Arsenal player did a far worse tackle but the other players foot didn't catch in the ground and he got up and walked away. That's football

That actually wasn't a foul by clichy

Birmingham City f.c / brukillaz Ent 🇯🇲 🇬🇧 zw

This is how they killed our title hopes through that horrendous tackle.

Watching this again so many years later confirms my long held opinion that Wenger was a classless twat.

KRO

ADEBAYORRR MUCH AS CLICHY COST US THE THE TITLE 8:20

Lineker loos boyish

ADEBAYORRR should had a pen this game we been robbed man

A great laugh that day, loved Martin Taylor did the business 😂😂

830 selfish

Brum will always be cheats...

RIGGED

how is that a penalty

Gallas tears 💉💉💉

ROBBED ROBBED ROBBED NEVER CAMR CLOSE TO A TITLE SINCE FFS BRUM F OFG

arsenal are always robbed in crucial match. this one is example.

And it all went south after this game. This was the best football playing team in wenger's era, deserved atleast one trophy. Really this analogy of 'if you want to beat arsenal, kick them around', really did had its consequences.