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Similar to this season, their 27th game involved a trip to the West Midlands to face a side battling relegation – Alex McLeish’s Birmingham City.<\/p>\n
After an awful injury to Arsenal<\/a> striker Eduardo and a goal from 10-man Birmingham’s James McFadden, an 18-year-old Theo Walcott scored his first goals in the Premier League to leave the leaders 2-1 up heading into injury time.<\/p>\n But a foul by Gael Clichy meant the Gunners conceded a penalty and allowed McFadden to score a 95th-minute equaliser \u2013 just a minute later than the one Tom Edozie scored for Wolves<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n After drawing a game they had dominated, Arsenal<\/a> defender William Gallas famously sat down on the pitch in what Match of the Day commentator Jonathan Pearce described as “a state of disbelief”.<\/p>\n While Gabriel Jesus shoving Yerson Mosquera on Wednesday wasn’t anywhere near as dramatic, it shows many Arsenal<\/a> players were similarly stunned and frustrated after the final whistle in that game.<\/p>\n That 2-2 draw on 23 February 2008 meant their lead at the top was cut to just three points when Manchester United<\/a> won 5-1 at Newcastle<\/a>, while Wednesday night’s result gives Manchester City<\/a> the chance to close the gap to just two points if they win their game in hand.<\/p>\n This current Arsenal<\/a> side will hope the similarities end there. The Gunners went on to win just one of their next seven Premier League games 18 years ago.<\/p>\n Such a poor run of results caused them to drop to third place, nine points behind new leaders Manchester United<\/a>.<\/p>\n Despite winning their final four games, Arsenal<\/a> finished the season in third place with 83 points, four behind champions Manchester United<\/a> and two behind runners-up Chelsea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n #Arsenal #Gunners #danger #repeating #history<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Similar to this season, their … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}