19/06/2004 - 19:45 Averio - Portugal Holland 2-3 Czech Republic 4) Bouma 19) Van Nistelrooy
23) Koller 71) Baros 88) Smicer
The best football match of 2004 as my memory serves.
It had everything - great attacking football, flowing moves and good defending (in parts
) You obviously can't have a fantastic display of attacking football with a brilliant display of defensive football .. they'd just cancel each other out.
Best Premiership matches:
Tottenham Hotspur 4-4 Leicester City
Tottenham Hotspur 4-5 Arsenal
(the other two matches involving Spurs from the 2003-2004 season - when the result was 4-3)
Arsenal 2-2 Chelsea
Liverpool 2-1 Arsenal - I've not seen a team so confident against Arsenal this season as Liverpool were on that Sunday afternoon. They truely deserved the win.
I can't help but mention all the times Manchester United beat Arsenal (3 out of 4
) Arsenal only scored once against us in all competitive matches during 2004.
Best Goals:
Both of Wayne Rooney's strike's against Croatia during 2004.
Henry's opener in the match between Arsenal and Chelsea
Neil Mellor's last gasp winner for Liverpool against Arsenal!
Rooney's first goal in Manchester United colours
(I know there are more..)
The best Formula 1 Grand Prix of the season was probably in Belgium. I was glad to see F1 back in Belgium after the race wasn't on the 2003 calendar. F1 wasn't the same without it.. I remember this race for Raikkonen's fantastic drive in the newer McLaren and simply because it was one of the few where Schumacher (or a Ferrari) didn't win. The first Chinese GP was also pretty memorable along with quite a few towards the end of the season.