Fozzy 
Ed’s note: The next issue of The Gooner goes on sale outside the Palace game tomorrow. We’ll have two sellers covering the away entrance for those in attendance. Others will have to wait until the home games v Chelsea or Liverpool to pick it up – I am aware a fair number of regulars will not be attending the cup game.
Anyway, I will give a full rundown of the issue on Monday (remember the content is exclusive and does not appear online) but just to whet the appetite, there is a five page special feature on Arsenal’s memorable home ties in Europe, inspired by the performance against Napoli (we’ll gloss over Tuesday evening!)
There was a little doubling up on submissions, so I am going to run a couple of those that do not appear in the issue, and here’s the first, by Fozzy…
Arsenal 3 Anderlecht 0 - (1970 Fairs Cup Final 2nd Leg)
Nothing rivals the Fairs Cup Final on 28 April 1970 as the biggest ever European night at Highbury. It came after a long period of nothingness and, despite finishing in a lowly 12th place that season, we were somehow making inroads into Europe. After spanking the highly regarded Ajax of Amsterdam 3-0 in the first leg of the semi-final, we parked the bus in the return leg and restricted them to just one goal. We were through to the final against Belgian club, Anderlecht, who had earlier in the tournament beaten the Geordie Barcodes on away goals. The away goal rule was to work to our advantage in the final as we were 3-0 down at their place in the first leg before Ray Kennedy popped up with a priceless away goal.
I will never forget the evening of the return leg on the North Bank for. 51,000 of us saw Eddie Kelly give us hope when he fizzed one in at the Clock End to help reduce the deficit. Then, with 15 minutes to go, came one of my most treasured Highbury memories when Bob McNab banged over an enticing cross from the left wing and there was Big John Radford, soaring like an eagle, to head us into the lead. The noise was immense and that goal was quickly followed by a belter from Jon Sammels. I was dancing on the pitch at the end and had a job to make it back to the pub to celebrate as there was a strict 10.30pm closing time in those days.
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